Epinions Recent Reviews for ed_grover

Gertrude Stein: A Life Well-Spent (3rd Annual Resurrection W/O)

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:09:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - This is my entry in the 3rd Annual Resurrecting The Oldies Book Write Off hosted by Msmorvay. To find out the particulars about joining in, just click on the link and scroll down to get all the information. Janet...

You Can Blame All the Current Fashion Hype On Louis XIV

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:45:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - Lately I seem to be waking up at the oddest hours (anywhere from 1:30 AM to 4 AM) and can't go back to sleep. I've stopped struggling with just lying there and fussing. Now, I head for the living room where I prop myself up with lots of pillows on the...

Illona Says It's Just Adequate

Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:24:36 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - When I came home from my stay at the hospital last December, I returned satisfied with the knowledge that I qualified for a bunch of help from the Milwaukee County Department on Aging and their supportive agencies. After what seemed like a series of...

Learning to Cope With CHF!

Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:23:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - 2005 is The Year of the Heart and February was Heart Awareness Month. Since I always like to be au courant with things, I think my body decided I should experience something in this area as soon as possible and I learned the hard way...

Empress of the Blues: Bessie Smith

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:16:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - This is another book in the excellent OUTlines series that explores the various and often unexpected ways that the public has been educated about the lives and creative works of the homosexual and bisexual artists, writers, singers, dancers,...

Photography: Carl Van Vechten's Magic Act

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:33:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - For Black History Month, 2005, I'd like to continue my fascination with Carl Van Vechten's photographs of prominent members of the African American arts and culture during three decades starting in the 1930s. I get Generations in Black & White:...

Mr. Clean MagicReach Starter Kit: Getting At All Those Hard-To-Reach Places . . . Including Corners!

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:30:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - Bra-a-a-a-a-a-k-k-k-k!! The doorbell woke me out of a light afternoon slumber and I silently cursed whoever it was as I stumbled to the door and pushed the intercom. Me: Uh, hullo, who'z 'ere? Cheery female Voice: We have a package for you Mr...

Well, I'm Not Exactly Sure About Pearls, But . . .

Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:05:42 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - This little book appeared in my apartment with a pile of other goodies one day after my friend Stan came to town a year or so ago to do the designer setup for a photo shoot of a Zero King kitchen that was to be featured in...

The Master Teaches!

Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:27:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - I got this book from my friend Arlen after his death from AIDS in the early 1990s. I met him at my first gay AA meeting in 1984. He had been a chef before he joined AA and eventually got sick. All of us rallied around to make his last years as enjoyable...

Me and My Larousse

Sat, 6 Nov 2004 02:22:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - This is a book that I have seldom cooked from, but I use it all the time when I want to know what something is. I have also been known to settle in on the sofa and just read it on a cold winter's night. You can turn to any page and be amazed at...

Pope Dreams . . . (2nd Annual Resurrecting the Oldies WO)

Thu, 4 Nov 2004 21:43:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - This review has gotta be dedicated to St
ephen_Murray,
if for no other reason than it was his comment about Frederick Rolfe aka Baron Corvo that started this whole snowball rolling. Steve remarked in the comment section...

Oopa! There's Greek Food Tonight

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:25:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - Originally, I planned this cookbook review as a tie-in and tribute to the Greek Olympics, but there was a very long line at the library and I had to wait my turn to get it. When the book became available I rushed right down to get it and read it...

The Bottles on My Dresser #8

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:01:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - It's early morning as I type this and what I sprayed on my body last night as a personal test is still lively with the scents of sandalwood, moss and Vetiver . . . not to mention a whiff or two of patchouli every now and then. This scent was launched...

More Milwaukee . . . Then & Now

Sun, 3 Oct 2004 19:38:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - I'm always on the lookout for ways to help promote my hometown in any way other than the beer, brats and cheese reputation we seem to have acquired through the ages. On one of my walking tours of the downtown area, I spotted Milwaukee: Then And...

The Lord of Ten Thousand Years Is Reduced To Citizen Gardener

Fri, 1 Oct 2004 11:41:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - The 1987 movie, The Last Emperor, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, contains the moving history of Pu Yi. It tells of his life and brief reign in the Forbidden City where he was the object of worship by half a million people. It won Oscars for Best...

CAMEO Cleaners: The Copper Bottoms of My Pots & Pans Are Bright As a New Penny

Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:22:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - First off, thanks to Pogomom for adding this to the database so promptly. Especially right after the passage of all those hurricanes through her back yard. I had a friend who had one of those giant wrought iron holders for his pots, pans and...

Fakes, Fantasies & Forgeries

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:15:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - After I read D
ragon
Lady I felt bound to find out more about the man who manufactured all those lies. Off I went to our Central Library and came home with Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund...

Natural Blonde: A Memoir: A Good Ol' Gal

Fri, 24 Sep 2004 15:29:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - This book by and about successful New York City gossip maven, Liz Smith, is certainly an amusing read. Mary Elizabeth Smith was born in Fort Worth, Texas around 1925. That makes her six years older and a lot more exciting than moi. She says she was bald...

The Dowager Empress & The Foreign Devils

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:26:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - My first reading about the last Empress of China was in the early 1980s after I returned from Florida. I went to visit a friend who owned a resale shop for men's clothing because I needed something other than jeans and khaki shorts to wear on job...

September Song: Lunch On The Terrace

Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:00:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - A month before Labor Day weekend an old friend from Washington DC sent me an e-mail telling me that she and her husband would be coming through Milwaukee on their way to a wedding in a small town on the upper peninsula of Wisconsin. It's amazing what...

Fleur Cowles: That Nice Little Woman Who Gave Us Flair Magazine

Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:30:07 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - In 2003 the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York City held a retrospective exhibition of Flair Magazine and its editor entitled Fleur on Flair. Fleur Cowles, a former Look editor, began the magazine in the nineteen-fifties. Fleur has to be in her...

Get Dirty! Lava Soap Will Get It All Off

Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:15:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - This wonderful, all-purpose product has been cleaning dirty, grimy hands (and other body parts) since 1893. It takes off all the sticky, goopy things you might get on yourself one way or another throughout the day. The very fact that Lava Soap was...

I Got Big, Fat, Juicy, Red Tomaters

Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:47:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - This review was inspired by B
ryan
Carey's review of Miracle-Gro All-Purpose Fertilizer. Curtis Ray, our intrepid building manager (the one I frequently mention that carries around that big socket wrench),...

No Strings, No Strings . . .

Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:24:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - . . . No strings and no connections No ties to my affections I'm fancy free and free for anything fancy No dates that can't be broken No words that can't be spoken Especially when I am feeling romancy . . . So Bring on the big...

Scrape, Scramble & Fold

Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:21:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ed_grover - My rubber spatula finally bit the dust after 20 years of sitting in the wooden spoon jar and seldom being used. I needed a new one and this was a good excuse to hit the mall downtown and see what was happening in the housewares departments of various...