Epinions Recent Reviews for maura

my night on the strip

Wed, 4 Oct 2000 02:20:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author maura - In high school I dye my hair black (temporary dye, gets all over my clothes and washes completely out after two days) and I have Phil Lewis' picture all over my walls and he has black hair and pale skin and blue eyes and a British accent and did i...

Daily Northwestern: banality sells

Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:00:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author maura - story ideas that do not make the advertisers happy, according to sources who gave me this information late one night in 1997:

-a story called 'how to be cooler than everyone else' that are pegged to the release of the movie HYPE! and is actually...

softness, mmmm so good.

Fri, 19 Nov 1999 04:59:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author maura - what do i look for in a baseball mitt? one thing: catchiness. hah, get it?

ok. never mind.

so, seriously. as a young girl i played SOFTball with my father. in the back yard. you know. it's the thing to do for young girls and their...

don't watch it for quality -- watch it to BE INFORMED of the world's FATE

Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:07:14 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author maura - i am convinced -- yes convinced, there is nothing that will stop my mind from believing this -- that the current crop of teen idols is actually a part of a larger campaign, one that will pop as the odometer-of-years flips over, to take over the planet,...

i didn't realize that they made eighty-bazillion track machines

Tue, 2 Nov 1999 00:05:19 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author maura - when i had a job i would set my alarm for six, because i knew i would stay in bed for about 75 minutes hitting snooze every nine minutes or so. this strategy resulted in some dreams with great soundtracks -- imagine a subconscious haze backed by the cure...

notes from a week spent on a recliner

Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:57:38 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author maura - seeing as i am currently unemployed, i have been partaking of lots of (some would say too much; i would wholeheartedly agree with them) daytime television. yes, thanks to my parents' investment in the dish network, an entire world of wb and upn...

happy girly sounds

Tue, 5 Oct 1999 12:39:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author maura - When Liz Phair's EXILE IN GUYVILLE came out, all the boy-crits who normally spend their time being read to sleep while sitting in the lap of Greil Marcus took notice. Hey, a hot blond chick was singing about sex ... and how she *liked* it! And the songs...

what if cathy wasn't a comic?

Mon, 4 Oct 1999 19:14:03 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author maura - let me start off by saying that when i was in college these two friends of mine -- girlfriends of friends, actually -- offended me to no end by giving me a cathy calendar for christmas. the present sent me into a crisis; "is this what everyone...

my heart's not dead -- it's just bruised

Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:08:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author maura - i have taken to listening to the afghan whigs' gentlemen -- an absolutely bleak record, one filled with deceit and remorse, anguish and disgust. it's quite possibly their best work, and one of my favorite albums of all time.

the music -- the...

half-baked "righteous" faux feminism

Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:48:50 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author maura - wendy shalit made quite a splash for herself by writing about the co-ed bathroom situation, and her distaste for said situation, at her university. the thesis of the book: the 'sexual revolution' has created nothing but a host of problems for women, most...