Epinions Recent Reviews for OdellBurgess

I have no puns about dogs available.

Sat, 3 May 2003 01:21:57 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Disclaimer: I am reviewing this film only to bribe the delovely jennifernorth into writing her Friday Night Ramble. I also had to promise her that I would immediately lend her my Angel dvds so she can gaze at the frequently...

Bridgeture in Africa

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:52:46 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - If you are looking for a way to hide out from your loved ones during a particularly crampy weekend, this book may be your ticket. If you are looking for something with any sort of resonance or greater meaning, I suggest you stop reading this review and...

First Season Goodness, DVD Blandness

Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:50:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Any good movie geek knows that the point of OWNING a dvd player is to be able to get all the extras like director's commentary on Tommy Boy, right? I mean, I bought my dvd player for more than $300 back in Y2K (I feel so retro saying that!) with...

I am Six: I (heart) the Little Mermaid.

Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:47:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - I am six years old.

OK. That's not true. Actually, I'll be 25 in a little more than a month.

And I also admit that I am pathetically addicted to this video game; it's probably the only thing other than Tetris that has...

Green-eyed Me: Paris to the Moon

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:12:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - I received this book through a rare insight from my mother this past Christmas. It seems that she finally realized that I am not much for Maeve Binchy or Tom Clancy novels. Hurrah! (My new husband is not, I'm afraid, so lucky, since she gave him...

All I want is a perfect album: Joni Mitchell's Blue

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:04:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Today my husband left on a long business trip, and I've been feeling a little sad. See, we're newleyweds, and we haven't been apart for this long since our wedding -- or even since we started dating, really.

So when he pulled out of the...

Voices over an ocean: thoughts on friendship

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 20:29:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - I read this book right after graduating from college, partially because one of my best friends was on her way to teach English in Japan, while I remained marooned in my own foreign land, Massachusetts. I was feeling a bit funny about our choices and...

The Heidi Chronicles: Good play, bad film. It's that simple.

Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:36:21 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Welcome, welcome, one and all to the Great Chicago Movie Writeoff. (And let me apologize for being quite late -- I am usually so punctual...) Before I even start my rant on the film I chose, let me give mad props, if you will, to the other fine...

Foxy is as foxy does.

Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:51:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Sometimes I feel like there's just nothing "out there" that is just good old fashioned fun anymore. I mean, not waving the flag at the county fair's firework display kind of fun, but the sort of fun best demonstrated by, say, the Shirelles...

Fine wine & chloroform: a peek at my teen angst.

Sat, 9 Dec 2000 16:21:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - When I was 15, I decided that I was absolutely in loooooove with this senior boy. While his fine footwear and enthusiastic performances in community theater musicals didn't tip me off to the fact that he was (like well over half of all men I have...

A meditation on acquisition, joy & desire in the modern era.

Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:12:00 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - I have no children. I know precious few children. But as a favor to a woman I know whose husband is in grad school in another state most of the week, I promised to watch her 2 daughters while she got a facial. They are precocious children -- you know,...

Sharp R-120D 600 Watts Microwave Oven: Style over substance...but I'm ok with that.

Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:55:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Admittedly, I was attracted to this microwave for it's iMac-esque style. I am the type who wears stilettos in snowstorms, so I tend to go for pretty over practical. I liked the style and liked the color selection, and the sort of 1962-vision-of-Y2K...

Self-awareness and self-loathing: a post-modern cocktail

Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:38:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Note: at "press time," this book is quite misplaced in the Epinions classification system. It certainly is not a children's book, and I really don't think "witty, insightful & neurotic" was intended to be part of the title...

Charitableway.com: Getting with the times: a painful journey

Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:56:24 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Nonprofits being, by their nature, low on cash, are often among the last to catch up with technology. And that is both good and bad. You aren't spending valuable donor dollars on stuff that will be outdated in a few months (or even years) but...

Another troubling outing with Neil LaBute

Sat, 9 Sep 2000 01:10:22 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - I don't know what I expected. It's not like I'm not familiar with Mr. LaBute, director of such disturbing and nasty (yet intriguing) films such as In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors. The man is a psychology thesis...

Does nothing to tame me. Grrrrr! ::breaking a chair::

Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:37:03 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - I don't think I should have to apologize for my hormones. The same thing that doubtless drives me to work intense and long hours, delight in sex and badminton (not nec. simultaneously), and dance til dawn is also what makes me a fanged, spiky-toothed...

The horrifying masterpiece of American dance cinema.

Mon, 24 Jul 2000 02:17:58 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Tonight, in exchange for me sitting through Caddyshack, my husband-to-be agreed to sit through Dirty Dancing with me. He had never seen it. He knew only that there was dancing. He is no longer speaking to me. He did mention...

Nice place to visit: Home Town

Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:24:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - After I graduated from college and got my first gig as an environmental activist (What else can ya do with a english & theater double major? It's really a natural choice.), I moved to Northampton, Massachusetts. I still remember the first time I...

Sexy thriller for the literatti

Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:41:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Maybe I spent too much time in the dusty 3rd floor research room of my college library. Maybe I still hold a little too close my hot-booty-with-a-professor fantasies. Maybe I just get all weak-kneed over reeeeeally big words. There could be many...

Fields, Denise: Far and Away Weddings, blah

Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:57:14 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - I started planning my October 2000 wedding about a year ago. I had always envisioned the blessed event taking place in my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, even though I was a Massachusetts resident. There was something about the idea of getting married in...

Springsteen-worthy: my vacation at Seaside Park

Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:38:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Ever since I met my college roommate, Tara, we have made it a point to head to the Jersey shore each year -- sun, cheap beer, and enthusiastic (if not foxy) boys to share it all. We would stay at her grandmother's old house in a retirement community in...

What pop should be.

Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:55:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Thank goodness for Sassy. I've said before and I'll say it again -- Sassy, the fab early 90's stereotype-shattering girl magazine, made me a cooler person. For example, if it weren't for beloved Sassy staffer, Christina Kelly, I...

A true story with questionable scientific value

Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:25:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - When I think of Gatorade, my mind drifts back to that fateful day that my dear college roommate and I were laid up with the flu. It was that awful flu that closed entire college campuses and left you completely powerless and dehydrated for at least a...

Avantgo: Pointless yet charming, but so is the Palm Pilot

Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:05:15 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Many times I have been seized with lust for new tech toys that are completely pointless to own. That's how I came to purchase my PDA. I had a perfectly good calendar I got for free at this place I volunteer, and I have a brand new Rolodex my assistant...

That gosh-darned car commercial sold me on Nick Drake.

Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:43:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author OdellBurgess - Ya know, I would like to pretend that I am the kind of really cool person who knew Nick Drake before that blasted Volkswagen commercial showcased his song, "Pink Moon." But I didn't. I just know that the first time I saw the commercial I got...