© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-MiDoyle Recent reviews written by member MiDoyle en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_490168028804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Secrets have a cost attached to them. They come with obligations. The secrets must not only be protected but also nurtured. Family secrets exact a price.Gerard Freeman has grown up with his mother's secrets, ones that confound him and haunt him... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~490168028804 Sun, 1 Nov 2009 01:39:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_490168028804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_489390247556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - "...Wow, it's so hella America." "What does that mean?" I asked."Oh God," she explained. "Like hella real. Hella harsh." [page 15]Collected from 12 pieces previously published, Evan Wright's... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489390247556 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:40:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489390247556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_488704872068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Sasquatch visits my house periodically. He takes long hot showers, using a bar of soap, about a quart of shampoo-conditioner and body wash. He exfoliates every pore. Then, he does a full body shave, comb and dry.  Sasquatch takes his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~488704872068 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:46:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_488704872068?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487878856324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Retard. Moron.Charly Gordon has heard those words for most of his life --- as a child with a mother at the end of her abusive rope; at school from other children; at work at Donner's Bakery; and from strangers on the streets of New York.A... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487878856324 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:58:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487878856324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487878266500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was one of the giants of American sculpture in the 20th century, one whose enigmatic, colorful, and whimsical works have never lost their charms or sense of wonder. Calder's pieces are unique visions of possibility and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487878266500 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:21:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487878266500?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_485663805060?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - No other band in the history of rock n' roll has ever been able to carry on a conversation with an audience like CDSN or CSN&Y. The raps between songs were as much a part of their show as the music, sometimes. There have never been any barriers... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~485663805060 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:25:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_485663805060?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_485603643012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - If there were ever to be a self-help movement for snarkaholics, I'm not sure where they would meet. The coffee house is too obvious. A church basement would have too much irony attached to it, but few people get punched in the face in a church basement... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~485603643012 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:46:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_485603643012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_485562748548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Reading Steve Knopper's Appetite for Self-Destruction (2009, Free Press, 320 pages), I was struck by how much the story of the record industry's comeuppance parallels the nonsense on Wall Street with the housing bubble. Put a decent shave and a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~485562748548 Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:21:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_485562748548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_485505142404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - According to a recent "Youth Violence: Facts at a Glance"  fact sheet (Summer 2009) on youth violence put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, homicide is the second leading cause of death for youths between the ages of 10-24... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~485505142404 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:16:49 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_485505142404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484856139396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - An then we stumbled across the page that featured Murphy, his tongue drooping, his watery eyes staring cluelessly from inside a cage that turned out to be only two hours away. When we arrived this morning, we'd been talking about him long enough to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484856139396 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:17:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484856139396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483458190980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - I generally speak no French with the exception of ordering beer and a few phrases for romantic interludes and Valentine's Day. None of that is necessary to enjoying Zachary Richard's Live in Montreal (RZ Records, 1980). The "joie de vivre"... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483458190980 Tue, 1 Sep 2009 23:35:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483458190980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483199651460?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - When standing in front of my local beer cooler of choice, I make a mental inventory of what's available, what I've tried before (noting if my usual favorites are there), and which of anything is new. Anytime I find a new Sierra Nevada Brewing Company... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483199651460 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:07:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483199651460?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483174289028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - "...greed was a factor in all this, too. But these things do occur with some regularity, and we haven't ever figured out how to stop the next one from happening. I'm sure we'll figure out how to prevent something like this from happening again. Wall... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483174289028 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:59:12 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483174289028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483163016836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - We don't get to choose our parents --- Ozzie and Harriet only exist as caricatures in a long forgotten television world. The same holds true for the Seavers and the Cosbys, parental units of warmth, support, and security.Given that parentage is a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483163016836 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:46:11 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483163016836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483116813956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - William Edmondson [1874-1951] was a rather remarkable individual, the son of freed slaves, a person who was mostly illiterate, but one with a gift, a gift that he found late in life. He worked in the fields, on the railroad, and as a janitor and orderly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483116813956 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:04:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483116813956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483112291972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Jeff Beck [b. 1944-] is not only one of rock n' roll's most engaging and talented guitarists, he's also one of the most enigmatic. He's an iconoclast, marching to his own beat, his own path, clearly independent to the ninth degree.As a guitarist,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483112291972 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:35:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483112291972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482995113604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - When police and prosecutors start throwing around charges of Satanism, ritual killings, and pedophilia, it is a sure sign you've entered into legal crazy land (Charles Manson and author Thomas Harris excluded).Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482995113604 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:40:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482995113604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482329529988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - The late record company impresario Ahmet Ertegun said of Crosby, Stills & Nash:"...It's like an institution. Just when you think that it's all gone, that they can never reconcile their differences, somehow they always do. The spirit of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482329529988 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:32:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482329529988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_482325008004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - The image of one's home as an instrument of terror, a symbol of all those things that go bump in the night is at the center of The Séance by John Harwood (2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 338 pages). Though we like to think of home and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~482325008004 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:50:26 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_482325008004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477970992772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Often times the truth sneaks up on you. During the 2008 election cycle, I had a conversation with my then six-year old, which went something like this:E: Daddy, who are you and mommy voting for?Me: Mr. Barack Obama, the black man... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477970992772 Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:20:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477970992772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477132918404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Iowa: Buddy Holly's death site; Hayden Fry; farms, corn, pigs, soybeans, trains, fertilizer, flat land as far as the eye can see; and that weird caucus system every four years that can hold the rest of America hostage. That's pretty much the view... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477132918404 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:00:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477132918404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477118107268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Edmund L. Andrews is ... well, an idiot. However, unlike most idiots, he is able to look in the mirror and recognize the signs of that affliction. Most middle-aged males in the midst of a mid-life crisis or divorce do something understandable -- the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477118107268 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:50:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477118107268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_474678791812?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - It wouldn't hurt to ask an older person a question now and again. You just might learn ... something. With How to Live - A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They are Still On This Earth), author Henry Alford set out to find... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~474678791812 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:39:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_474678791812?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473786125956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - She has undergone virtually every test that technology has devised-radiography, emissiography, and many types of imaging: multispectral, microtopographical, high-resolution three-dimensional, and infrared. [page 226]Even if you've never... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473786125956 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:47:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473786125956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472272309892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author MiDoyle - Stephen Bruton (1948-2009) was never a household name though he was heard on countless records and covered countless times. He was a guitarist and a songwriter, sideman and producer, sometime actor, compatriot and instigator. He was also a sober... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472272309892 Sun, 31 May 2009 02:19:57 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472272309892?linkin_id=8003929