Epinions Recent Reviews for M_Lee_Williams

Setting the record straight in Green Mountain Falls

Wed, 31 May 2000 21:31:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - I heard the rumor. I had to go to Green Mountain Falls, Colorado to check it out for myself. Green Mountain Falls: A small alpine village on the slope of Pikes Peak. About 15 miles west of Colorado Springs. Population less than 1,000.

Who...

THE FIELD THAT SHOELESS JOE JACKSON BUILT

Mon, 1 May 2000 19:08:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - It’s 1911 and Shoeless Joe Jackson steps up to the plate. He’s a rookie playing for Cleveland and he knows how to please a crowd: hit the ball. At the age of 23 he set the record for highest batting average by a rookie.

Just two years...

Spittin' Off The Balcony in Oxford, Mississippi

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:03:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - Here's the deal, KMHINMAN, expert writer of epinions: I'll write an epinion about Oxford, Mississippi that will tell the readers, and I mean REALLY tell them, about Oxford, and if you enjoy the read, too, you'll go down to Square Books and buy me an...

Salon.com--you can't always trust what they print

Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:54:22 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - The feuding, back stabbing and mean-spiritedness that broke out at Zoetrope All Story: online submissions site has now spilled over into Salon.com. There is an article online as of February 22 in which a member of the Zoetrope writer's site, an admitted...

WATCH YOUR HAT

Sat, 19 Feb 2000 05:04:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - At 911 N. 12th Street in St. Louis, you will find a house that once belonged to none other than Stag Lee Sheldon. If you know anything about music, you know Stag Lee was the one who shot and killed another man during a barroom dispute.

On the...

Goin' to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee

Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:17:18 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - Sometimes the mystery is all we have. Mystery is usually the best part of anything anyway. When Elvis was alive the gates at Graceland swung open only at his behest. When those famous gates were closed, the mansion on the hill looked large, important...

Highway 61, Blues Highway Always Leads Back To Clarksdale

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:03:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - Imagine cotton fields spreading to the horizon, row after row of low-growing cotton plants ready to yield the fruit to any strong hand able to pluck the soft boll from the sharp grasp of the hull. Already the morning sun is winning and the sore back of...

The Best Blues is on Beale

Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:58:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - W.C. Handy, John the Baptist, Tom Cruise, Al Green, B.B. King and Elvis Presley are all celebrated and remembered on Beale Street near downtown Memphis, Tennessee. And this is only the short list of famous folks who are a part of Beale Street's...

Even without puffy stuff, we all walk the green mile

Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:01:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - This is another Hollywood attempt to reveal what they understand about mystical powers. It seems that it can't be done by Hollywood without special effects. Small, puffy things fly out of the mystic's mouth after every miracle. Then he becomes tired...

1-888-88-CHEAP: 1-888-88-CHEAP is not the kind of business I am willing to support

Thu, 2 Dec 1999 18:26:35 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - I just got through dealing with the folks at 1-888-88-CHEAP and I'm worn out! And not a satisfied customer.

It seems that they are not online yet, so the only way to contact them is through the 1-888-88-CHEAP phone number. They do provide...

Clear Lake Keeps The Music Alive

Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:52:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - Buddy Holly was born in Lubbock, Texas. He died in Clear Lake, Iowa. More has been done in Clear Lake to celebrate the life of Holly than has been dreamed of in Lubbock.

The last place on earth that Buddy Holly sang his songs was in Clear...

It's A Wonderful Life in Denison, Iowa

Sun, 28 Nov 1999 02:30:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - In western Iowa there is a small town that celebrates its connection to Bedford Falls, that fictitious town in the movie IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. The small Iowa town -- population 6,500, give or take a couple hundred--is Denison and it is the birthplace...

Capra's Uncorrupted Dream

Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:57:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - There are several things happening in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, and not all of them are syrupy sweet. It is a story that is supposed to be inspiring about and for Everyman (Everyperson), and on some levels it is that, but on other levels it is a story of...

To be Malkovich or not to be

Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:09:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - There are characters in this movie who do not want to age and die. There are some characters who don’t want to think too much about anything, preferring to act quickly, love quickly and easily, and just as quickly and easily give up their own identity...

Every man's wish, every woman's dream

Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:53:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - No library is complete, neither is a book list finished nor a mind well-read if the beauty of Zora Neale Hurston's words do not have a prominent place in the library, on the book list and in the mind.

Who dares to not read THEIR EYES WERE...

ZOETROPE ALL-STORY: On-line Submissions: Confusion at Zoetrope

Thu, 11 Nov 1999 04:14:17 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author M_Lee_Williams - I've been a member of Zoetrope, the online writing site, since November, 1998. As such I am unable to highly recommend this site at this time. There appears to be eight managers of the site (two systems operators, four Peer Advisory Board members, and...