Epinions Recent Reviews for uglabeep

ZZZZZZZ

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:08:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - This discreet little machine is a cut above the usual static makers. A small, circular, beige colored device, the Sleepmate has only one switch and two speed settings. The outer casing has two movable parts which may be slid to further adjust the...

splendido

Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:55:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - I know, I know, for all of you espresso snobs, coffee congnoscenti out there...this is not the real thing. I know that the real espresso is only made in Rome in one of those giant (lever operated) metal machines that makes that untypeable, wonderful...

Not for the gourmand, but not bad for the working stiff

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:46:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - The Black & Decker "Brew N' Go" is meant for those of us rushing off every morning, bleary-eyed, to employment that used to be disparagingly referred to as "9 to 5." Now that the eight hour day has been abolished by our Corporate Overlords and replaced...

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.....

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:42:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT "It began with a simple transaction inside a bustling nightclub, one of hundreds of comparable purchases that must have gone down on that drug-fogged night." SUDDENLY, A SHOT RANG OUT "In a dimly lit side room...

Bob le Nolte

Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:59:08 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - "The Good Thief," is a loose remake of Jean Pierre Melville's, "Bob le Flambeur," a French crime film that was an inspiration to Francois Truffault and Jean Luc Godard. The plot is simple and unoriginal: a tired old criminal goes for one last...

all art is quite useless

Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:34:37 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - Will Self has taken Oscar Wilde's useless but beautiful "Picture of Dorian Gray" and re-written the tale (useless upon useless) in the ugly world of AIDS in the 1980s. Why would anyone rewrite someone else's novel, and Oscar Wilde's novel at that?...

read Dorothy Parker instead

Tue, 1 Apr 2003 23:03:52 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - A few weeks before I read "Drinking, A Love Story" by Caroline Knapp, I had the misfortune of reading "John Barleycorn," the delusional alcoholic memoirs of Jack London. Mr. London's book is badly dated. For example, he personifies Demon Rum,...

The Pen and the Sword

Sun, 2 Mar 2003 23:22:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - Days after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, Oriana Fallaci, an Italian journalist living in New York City, wrote an essay for an Italian newspaper, which she later rewrote (and translated into wonderfully awkward English) as this...

like, grody to the max, like, gag me with a spoon

Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:14:28 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - Get out the smelling salts. Cover grandma's eyes. Put the children to bed. Prepare yourself emotionally. Look out! Here comes "Doom Generation," another sad attempt to SHOCK THE BOURGEOISE.

Oh my stars and garters. I was so...

I HATE BANKS (but not this one)

Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:27:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - I despise banks. I know that they are necessary for the functioning of society, the smooth flow of commerce, readily available capital for the building of blah blah blah but I still hate them. I hate the petty manner in which they operate, petty...

nice and cool

Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:02:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - This is a decent window-mounted air-conditioner. It cost me $229 in New York City in the middle of a heat wave. I usually buy air conditioners at this time due to the previous until I had purchased breaking down. The price is good for the BTUs and the...

Sad song

Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:49:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - "Shoot the Piano Player," by Francois Truffault, is one of those rare and excellent movies, like "The Third Man," whose score is essential to it’s greatness. Like the zither music in The Third Man, the piano music which weaves in and out of Shoot...

Orson rocks

Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:20:48 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - August is the cruelest month, if only for the crop of awful movies that come out each year at precisely the time when the summer drives one indoors and into movie theatres. After watching films such as "The Musketeer" and "Captain Corelli’s...

I thought there were three

Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:03:40 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - A few minutes into "The Musketeer," I realized, to my horror, that this was not to be a movie about the Three Musketeers, but rather an "updated" version focusing on D’Artagnan (as if the original somehow neglected him, what with him being slighted, it...

Section 8

Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:35:25 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - Session 9 is a Scary Movie with an excellent premise. A few men, who are friends and coworkers in an asbestos removal company, spend a week at a decrepit old insane asylum removing the poisonous dust. While they are there, of course, Bad Things...

Planet of the Marky-Marks

Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:19:27 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - Tim Burton’s new Planet of the Apes is a lot of fun, but not particularly well written or conceived. As usual in his movies, the film is a marvel of lighting, costuming, and decoration. Like Batman and Mars Attacks, however, the plot and dialogue...

My Brother’s Keeper

Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:16:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - Takeshi Kitano’s movies are all different blends of the same elements: gangsters, baseball, violence, art, the ocean, madness and humor. Mr. Kitano, who also calls himself “Beat” Kitano, writes, directs, and acts in his own movies, most of which are...

Yum

Thu, 24 May 2001 17:50:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - When I first moved to Tampa, Florida, I was eleven years old and I thought that Hooters was a nudie bar. My father took the family there one afternoon, over the strong objection of my mother, and I was surprised to discover that it was a restaurant,...

Wall Street Journal: Greed, and good writing, is good

Tue, 22 May 2001 17:55:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - The Wall Street Journal is the best-written newspaper in America. Forget the tiresome trendy pinko New York Times--the Journal is written for thinkers and arguers, not ideologues. The Wall Street Journal is certainly pro-capital, pro-business,...

law is hell

Tue, 22 May 2001 17:52:28 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - On a general note, I would not recommend law school to any but the most stubborn, ambitious, thick-skinned and dull. It is one of the more noxious and unpleasant ways to spend three years of one's life. Many think of law and law school as involvi...

Pas mal

Tue, 22 May 2001 17:48:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - Compubank

Compubank is a pretty good online bank. I'm not sure if the deal is still offered, but when I signed up for a checking account, I was paid $50. The only requirement was that I make an initial deposit of $100. Not a bad return on a $100...

Alky Seltzer

Sun, 13 May 2001 16:00:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - The only thing worse than awakening with a hangover is awakening with a hangover to discover that one is out of alka seltzer. Along with a cup of coffee and a hot bath there is no better cure. Better for one's liver than tylenol or advil, alka seltzer...

when you're walkin' down the hall and you feel somethin' fall...

Sun, 13 May 2001 15:42:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - The best diarreah cure of course is to simply stop eating chili dogs, cheese whiz, chalupas, Big Macs, etc., and get on a steady diet of wheat grass, soy tofu, and fiber. For those of us who continue to live outside of California, we have Immodium...

a decent vacuum cleaner

Sat, 12 May 2001 12:50:56 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - This vacuum cleaner is of the "power broom" variety, an upright model that best suits small apartments. It is perfect for my apartment, which is about the size of a small jail cell. Unlike other such "brooms," this vacuum cleaner actually works,...

A new weapon in the drug war

Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:14:52 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author uglabeep - Nancy Reagan never thought of this one: take the true life story of an international cocaine smuggler, and make it boring. Even with Johnny Depp, even with Penelope Cruz, even with guns, mountains of cocaine, rock and roll, even with Pee Wee Herman...