Epinions Recent Reviews for babyfishmouth

Sony PlayStation 2 Slimline Console: Oh bring back my boyfriend to me, to me

Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:58:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Warning: I am not a fan of video games, so take this review with a grain of salt.

I began to hear about the Playstation 2 shortly after the scare over Y2k ended. My boyfriend would pick up the latest Playstation-devoted magazine (including,...

Dinner and a movie for my generation

Sun, 29 Oct 2000 21:05:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - I am addicted to cookbooks. I don't know how or when it started, really, but for as long as I can remember, I have loved to cook and loved (even more so) to thumb through my mother's staggering cookbook collection, from The Joy of Cooking to...

I recall Prescott Park in fall

Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:47:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth -
Review Topic: Overview

In the live free or die state, Portsmouth is clearly the eat, drink and be merry city - at least for those of us Gen-Xers.

I moved to New Hampshire this past summer, after giving up on the idea that...

Life Lessons - A Beginner's Course

Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:14:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - A professor of mine at the College of Wooster made The Measure of Our Success required reading the year I worked as a teaching assistant (TA) for his First Year Seminar class. I wonder what made him choose it, wonder what first compelled him to...

Say "Yesh" to Mutts

Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:49:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - "What's the highest compliment I can pay Patrick McDonnell?" the now-departed Charles "Sparky" Schulz asks in his foreward to McDonnell's first compilation of Mutts comic strips. "He keeps coming up with ideas I wish I...

Archived Kids & Family Reviews: Just a Girl in a Barbie World

Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:25:45 GMT

rating: 0/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - It has been years since Barbie and Ken dated in my house. But at Christmas this year, my boyfriend's niece proudly showed me her Barbie airplane and all my repressed Barbie love came flooding back in a wave of nostalgia.

My sisters and I kept...

Boogie oogie oogie with the Ween boys

Fri, 23 Jun 2000 23:35:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Their names sound like something out of a Doctor Seuss book, but make no mistake about it: Ween's music is not just kid's stuff. In fact, due to the explicit lyrics and the scantily clad female figure on the album cover (I was offended to the very...

Finger Lickin' Good

Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:30:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - In Michael Dorris's book Cloud Chamber, one of the characters, a spirited teenager named Rayona, has lunch with her absentee father at an all-you-can-eat Kentucky Fried Chicken buffet. The passage describes the congealing hot apples and cinnamon,...

I Scream ,You Scream, We All Scream For Homemade Ice Cream

Sun, 21 May 2000 01:55:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Just think... If bagel machines were just a wee bit cheaper, there might never have been a Cherry Garcia, a Heath Bar Crunch or a Chubby Hubby.

Ben and Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book claims the two ice cream gurus...

Life and Death Along the Great Salt Lake

Sun, 21 May 2000 00:32:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Refuge is two separate stories intermingled in the mind of Terry Tempest Williams: the story of her mother's battle with cancer and the story of the endangered Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. At first glance, one might not see how...

Lao Tzu and Jesus in a Waste Compactor

Sat, 20 May 2000 22:48:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Bohumil Hrabal is one of those gem-writers who can paint a phrase and have you breathing and living in the moments he describes. From the very first page of this remarkably short novel, Hrabal's images take over:

Because when I read, I...

Days of wine and baby bottles

Sat, 20 May 2000 21:07:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Please note: I originally had this opinion under "Michael Dorris," so I hope I am not breaking any major Epinion laws by moving it, since it is much more appropriately a review of Broken Cord

I first encountered...

Cherish THESE Ladies

Wed, 17 May 2000 19:35:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - I have been a fan of Cherish the Ladies for some time now, and wondered what would become of this premiere Irish women's group when they moved from the Green Linnett label on to RCA. I must say, though, that their first "big label" release is...

Shopping Cart of Love & other reasons to adore Miz Lavin

Wed, 17 May 2000 13:09:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Alas! I discovered the quirky humor of Christine Lavin after many of the songs and musings on Live at the Cactus Cafe were outdated, in the summer of 1997. Even though the era of Quayle and Murphy Brown and Charles and Diana is over, the eleven...

Leapin' and hoppin' on a moonshadow

Tue, 18 Apr 2000 00:50:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - I've figured that I probably need to redeem myself for two (count 'em) reviews that extoll the virtues of ABBA. My penance, I've decided, is to be the first to review one of my all-time favorite albums, a greatest hits of a different kind, by a...

I've died and gone to Sweden

Mon, 17 Apr 2000 23:16:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Although I was still a wee thing when ABBA was in its hey day, their boppy

rhythms and and fluffy song lyrics found their way into my heart all the

same. I would put their albums on my Winnie-the-Pooh record player and

using my hairbrush...

Miz Ephron, what have you done???

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:04:28 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Bear with me for a moment, folks..

I fell in love with Nora Ephron's writing when I was but a wee thing, an insecure teeny bopper waiting for my boobs to spring forth. And spring forth they never did, and I cursed my lack of boobage until I...

Moscow does not believe in serial killers

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:28:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - When the raped and mutilated bodies of young children are discovered in the woods and alleys outside of Moscow, a forensic expert (Stephen Rea) suspects a serial killer may be afoot. Unfortunately, the Soviet government refuses to acknowledge that a...

Anybody could be that girl...

Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:17:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - Long before Toni Collette's Oscar-nominated turn in The Sixth Sense, she was Muriel Heslop, an insecure, chubby twenty-something who lived with her family in the town of Porpoise Spit.

Collette embodies the quirky Muriel from the very...

Oh the humanity!

Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:57:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - When I was in high school, my friends and I watched this movie at every single party. It was pathetic, really, but we were just so amused with ourselves and our ability to recite whole paragraphs of dialogue to each other. And now, for your reading...

Wooster is not in Massachusetts -- Thank God!

Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:29:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - The trauma of choosing a college was too much for me to bear in high school. I knew I wanted to go away to school, and that was about it. I had no sense of who I was and who I wanted to be, so how on Earth could I choose a college? So I did what any...

Things that go bump in the woods

Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:17:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - I have a confession to make: I LOOOOVE scary movies. All kinds, too, from the simply eerie to the ridiculous slashers. My friends and I used to hold parties on Friday the thirteenth and just watch video after video of Jason, Freddy Krueger, Norman...

Word by word, the best book on writing and life I've read

Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:09:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - My college roommate introduced me to this gem when her mother sent it to her in a care package. We would be working on our junior year theses and, in the middle of the silence, I would suddenly hear giggling from across the room. Of course, I wanted to...

For those who want to call "bacon" a salad

Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:37:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - My boyfriend bought me this cookbook as a Christmas gift after hearing for the hundredth time that I had made cookies for my parents and had not given him any. I think he doubted my cooking abilities (he, whose cooking repertoire consists of a broiled...

There IS Life Beyond Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:44:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author babyfishmouth - I bought this cookbook in the spring of the year I graduated from college. There was something about the look of confusion and dread on the cover art boy that...well... spoke to me. Now, don't get me wrong. I have made dinners for my family since the...