Epinions Recent Reviews for Lobstergirl

Ceci n'est pas un pipe, mais il contient le poop

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 00:44:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - When it comes to art, newness isn’t enough to excuse one from fustiness. In order to be truly meani...

Finally, a Lipstick That Will Not Rub Off On Your Baby Daddy Thang

Thu, 29 May 2003 01:53:18 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - Like Ed Grover, I never buy a lipstick unless it’s free. This one was on sale for $6.99 and came with a $6.99 mail-in rebate. The only cost is my dignity, which I surrender every time I implore the Epinions brass to make me a Wellness,...

Gore, Violence and Terror

Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:55:43 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - Don’t be misled by the teasers on the back cover, which suggest that Osama bin Laden and 9/11 figure prominently in Gore Vidal’s book Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace: “In a series of penetrating and alarming essays, whose...

Delicious, Vocabulary-Enriching Smut

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 03:32:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

“My medium-length, arseless waistless figure, corrugated ribcage and bandy legs gang up to dispel any hint of aplomb,” adolescent narrator Charles Highway describes himself on the first page of The Rachel Papers (1974). “…I...

A Foreigner Gens Up on America

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:12:11 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

America is a land where the beer is always too cold and the coffee too hot, and where parking signs (unlike in Italy) are more than merely suggestions. Americans are implacably cordial, optimistic, and huge-assed. We have the need to divulge...

Some Essays Very Good; Other Essays, Not So Good

Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:43:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

Something unmistakable washes over me as I flip through each new installment of the Best American Essays series: a sense of déjà vu. Each year the series editor culls, from a presumably large number of American publications, 50 to 100 of the best...

Jerry Seinfeld: Master of His Domain

Sun, 24 Nov 2002 10:04:28 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - I can’t really explain what made me pick up this unauthorized biography of Jerry Seinfeld (actual title Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon, by Jerry Oppenheimer). Although I remain a big admirer of the eponymous TV show, I have no...

Don't Hate Me Because I Love These Big Shiny Panties

Sat, 23 Nov 2002 09:15:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

Ever since I lost most of my urethra in a skiing accident in 1999, I’ve been searching for the ideal pair of plastic, rubber or vinyl panties.

The fir tree that attacked me on the slopes at Beaver Creek that day also speared my...

Bandera Restaurant: Bandera: Hugely Popular, Dimly Lit

Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:44:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - The crowd at Bandera -- a popular restaurant serving hearty, basic, moderately regional American cuisine -- on a recent Saturday night was composed of Michigan Avenue shoppers with their bags, some touristy types, yuppies and buppies in black...

Oprah, Chopra, and Massive Dystopia

Sat, 2 Nov 2002 03:51:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

As may be inferred from its title, The Twilight of American Culture (Norton, 2000) is part of a publishing trend that has become somewhat long in the tooth: books that bemoan the dumbing down of America and its overall cultural decline. If...

JFK, Jr.: Not Gay, Not a Viagra User, Did Not Have Sex With Pamela Anderson

Tue, 8 Oct 2002 07:50:58 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr. isn’t exactly a biography. It’s an account of Richard Blow’s five years as an editor at George magazine, and a portrayal of his (mostly) professional and (somewhat) personal...

A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations: Michael Jackson's Nose, Sly Stallone's Penis, and Other Horrific Appendages Examined Up Close

Tue, 17 Sep 2002 03:22:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

I discovered Cintra Wilson early on, it must have been 1995-96 or thereabouts, when the internet was still novel enough that hanging out in the Gillette shaving products chat room seemed pretty exciting. She had a Salon column that...

Glimpses of New York

Mon, 19 Aug 2002 00:24:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

Last September 11th I was vacationing with part of my family in Italy. We had gotten to the fourth of five pit stops, the stunningly beautiful northern town of Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Dolomite mountains, part of the Italian Alps. I had...

Are Those Ass Gnocchi, or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:40:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

It's been a few years since Bernard Grenier left La Miche (loose translation: "saucy, overweight teenage girl") to follow his dream of starting an orphanage cafeteria for quadriplegics, paraplegics, amputees, children maimed by land...

Brit Editrix Takes Her Licks

Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:16:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - If you travel in media circles, follow the Zeitgeist, or consider yourself moderately well read, it's been hard to turn around these last few years without bumping elbows with someone who had something nasty to say about Tina Brown. Brown is the...

Who Doesn't Love a Sexy Lesbian ?

Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:32:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - Susan Sontag may be known, even more than for her status as one of America's premier intellectuals, for that shock of white hair at her temple, a dramatic physical flourish as distinctive and identifying as Jennifer Lopez's booty, the gap between David...

The Pfister Hotel: Pfun at the Pfister

Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:59:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

Milwaukee's downtown is an odd little place (little, that is, when you live in a city like Chicago) that, no matter what time of day or year I happen to be there on business, seems just on the verge of being deserted. It's too bad, because it has...

Swissair: Now Here's an Airline Worth Saving

Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:04:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - I intended this to be a review of Swissair, but it may turn out to be more of a requiem. The Swiss airline known in past years for its high level of service and almost impeccable safety record (except for one flight that exploded in 1998 over Nova...

Holy See (Vatican City): Vacation at the Vatican

Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:08:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

I knew I wanted to spend the bulk of one day in the Vatican during my three days in Rome: I had to see the Sistine Chapel and the Raphael frescoes, and Bernini's twisty-columned baldacchino and Michelangelo's Pieta inside St...

Rome: An Eternal Visit to the Eternal City

Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:04:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - You may be reading a lot about my trip to Italy over the next few weeks, so I'll skip the formalities and get right to it. After I say that as much as I enjoyed Italy, two weeks seems like a long time, especially when your country and the cities you...

The Best American Magazine Writing 2000: Smallpox, Cannibalism, and Nick Nolte

Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:02:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

Editor Clay Felker brings together a diverse and rather puzzling agglomeration of pieces published in magazines in 1999 in this anthology. The three pieces of fiction in particular, though they are among the best selections, seem out of place...

Two Lipstick Non-Lesbians Have Their Uvulas Flagellated

Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:20:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - It was with a mixture of trepidation and trepidation that I approached my lunch date at Lipstick Café with fellow Epinionator, heavy metal doyenne, Concierge to the World, and Encyclopedia Brownie Matochak. Would my hair curl out and up...

Storm King State Park: Long Live Storm King

Tue, 5 Jun 2001 16:39:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - I didn't expect to like Storm King Art Center, a 500 acre outdoor sculpture "gallery", as much as I did. But now that I've been there, I urge anyone within a three hour drive to pay it a visit.

Most of us are accustomed to viewing...

Groceries: There's a Fungus Among Us: The Grocery Write-Off

Tue, 1 May 2001 19:25:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl -

The author owes a debt of gratitude to Cornelia's essay "Campbell's Cream of Mushroom: Bane of my WASP Existence" which served in part as the inspiration for her own review, and would, if she could, present Cornelia a Soup Pulitzer for her use...

The Decline and Fall of The New Yorker

Mon, 9 Apr 2001 15:41:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Lobstergirl - Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker, Renata Adler's account of the decline of the magazine, is one of those books that, it seems to me, very few people are qualified to review. It has come under attack for being factually inaccurate, for...