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About voxpoptart
Epinions Most Popular Authors - Top 1000
Member: Brian Block
Epinions.com ID: voxpoptart
Location: Greensboro, NC
Member Since: Jan 8, 2003
Homepage: 33 rebellions per minute
 
Favorite Websites: Slate Magazine
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Epinionator emeritus: a fancy term meaning "Occasionally I'll post something, then vanish again". Enjoy?  more
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Reviews Written: 212
Member Visits: 27,192
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voxpoptart's Recent Opinions
Date Written Review Title Product / Topic Product Rating Review Rating
Nov 3, 2012 Barack Obama and the Republicans: a laying-out of (selected) facts Writer's Corner: Politics Non-Fiction
in Member Center 		  n/a    Very Helpful
Jul 9, 2012 unafraid of birds that i don't know: sixteen further 2011 albums i endorse, with mini-reviews General Music Reviews
in Music 		  n/a    Very Helpful
Jun 27, 2012 kings of the animal kingdom: sixteen more 2011 albums i endorse, with mini-reviews General Music Reviews
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Nov 30, 2011 "i did not change my mind willingly" Bart D. Ehrman - Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)
in Books 		  Product Rating: 5.0    Very Helpful
Nov 15, 2011 a reply to Peter Schiff's "I am the 1% - let's talk" Writer's Corner: Politics Non-Fiction
in Member Center 		  n/a    Very Helpful
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voxpoptart's Most Popular Reviews
#576 in Books: "voyeurism, cinema verite, a good belly chuckle, a ...
#947 in Movies: "here you are free and have pride, long as you sta ...
#448 in Music: 10 famous albums, a nice warm forest clearing, a 3 ...
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voxpoptart's Author Popularity
#682 Overall
#194 in Books
#149 in Movies
#113 in Music
#738 in Web Services

About voxpoptart
6'0", 150 lbs, Second Baseman, Age 35, Bats Left, Throws Inaccurately. AIM screen name: "Bokonin". Tutor and night-school teacher with a customer service background: a professional explainer, far more prone to telling you about things I love than about things I don't. My comment sections are sometimes much funnier than my reviews, so maybe worth a look; on the other hand, in my reviews proper, I'm not totally making crap up.

Some things I am in favor of: my wife Cindy. My toddler Donovan and newborn Everett. My cats Binzer and Mongo. Overflowing cd shelves, which I discreetly list only fourth. Stuffed frogs. Libraries. They Might Be Giants concerts. Rainbow-colored slinkies. Free government-funded healthcare and daycare. The words "chinchilla", "gobsmacked", "dodocahedron", "monosyllabic" and "flub". High-fiber cereal. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Keeping your television away from children so they aren't influenced by the ads or the programming or the act of sitting in front a screen (unless Buffy is on). Buying anything I write nice reviews of. And, of course, writing me Comments.

(A fuller profile is available under the title Frankenstein girls will seem strangely sexy.)

ARCHIVES
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(movies/dvd's)
Allegro non Troppo ... Before Sunrise ... Blue Car ... Book of Life ... Breakfast at Tiffany's ... Brewster McCloud ... Bruce Almighty ... Citizen Kane ... Clockers ... Coupling ... Dead Poets' Society ... Dream with the Fishes ... Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ... Eyes Wide Shut ... Fahrenheit 9/11 ... Fail-Safe ... Happiness ... Hedwig and the Angry Inch ... Henry Fool ... How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ... Jesus Christ Superstar ... the Laramie Project ... Lawn Dogs ... the Legend of Bagger Vance ... Man in the Moon ... Man with a Movie Camera ... Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human ... Melvin Goes to Dinner ... the Music Man ... the Naked Gun ... Napoleon Dynamite ... Nowhere in Africa ... One Hour Photo ... On_Line ... the Price of Milk ... Princess Mononoke ... Roger Dodger ... School Daze ... Sidewalks of New York ... Spider ... Surviving Desire ... Thirteen Conversations About One Thing ... 12 Angry Men ... 12 Monkeys ... Urbania ... Wallace and Gromit ... West Side Story ... Wordplay ... You Can Count on Me

(music)
(best songs of 2005, part one)
(best songs of 2005, part two)
(best pop songs of 2006)
(implausible deniability: songs for tongue-tied lovers)
(the old man and the C-minus: on aging rockers)
(sad songs writeoff)
(shilmafone mix CD #1: mechanical madness)
(shilmafone mix CD #2: easy access)
(shilmafone mix CD #3: for brave young cyborgs)
(stairway2drew mix: music for funk soul brothers)
(ten famous albums)
("We Built This City" on VH-1)
(www.Rhapsody.com)
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Anna Oxygen ... Atom and his Package ... Brendan Benson ... Bicycle ... Bleu ... Boomtown Rats ... Kitty Brazelton ... Cordelia's Dad ... Count Zero ... Cowboy Mouth ... Curlew ... Custom ... Damn Personals ... Do as Infinity ... Doves ... Dresden Dolls ... Jewlia Eisenberg ... Fiery Furnaces ... Fountains of Wayne ... Franz Ferdinand ... David Garland (Togetherness) ... David Garland (Window) ... Gomez ... GrooveLily ... Head of Femur ... Robyn Hitchcock ... Joe Jackson ... Jim's Big Ego (Titanic) ... Jim's Big Ego (Don't Get Smart) ... Jim's Big Ego (Noplace Like Nowhere) ... Jonny 5 and Yak ... Jennifer Kimball ... King Missile III ... Lockgroove ... Loud Family ... Regina Lund ... Tris McCall ... McLusky ... Modest Mouse (Moon and Antarctica) ... Modest Mouse (Good News) ... Rebecca Moore ... Alanis Morissette ... Mountain Goats ... Moxy Fruvous ... Mr. Lif ... Amy X Neuburg (Utechma) ... Amy X Neuburg (Sports! Chips! Booty!) ... Amy X Neuburg (Residue) ... Nightwish ... Nine Inch Nails ... Notwist ... Paris ... Propagandhi ... Radiohead ... Rheostatics (Whale Music) ... Rheostatics (Introducing Happiness) ... Rheostatics (the Blue Hysteria) ... Rheostatics (the Story of Harmelodia) ... Rachael Sage ... Science Group ... Solex ... Sparks ... Sufjan Stevens ... Swinghammer ... System of a Down ... Talking Heads ... Tall Dwarfs ... Martin Tielli ... Mary Timony ... Mary Timony (concert review) ... 2 Foot Flame ... Weakerthans ... Logan Whitehurst ... Dar Williams ... Wesley Willis ... World Leader Pretend

(novels / poems)
Julian Barnes, England, England
Henry Beard, Poetry for Cats
William Boyd, Armadillo
David Brin, Kiln People
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
Orson Scott Card, Lost Boys
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Matt Ruff, Set This House in Order
Lewis Shiner, Glimpses
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Nancy Sparling, Being Alexander
Charles Stross, Singularity Sky
Michael Swanwick, Bones of the Earth
Thomas Tryon, Night of the Moonbow

(non-fiction)
John Clute, the Book of End Times
Jared Diamond, the Third Chimpanzee
Warren Farrell, Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say
Tim Flannery, the Weather Makers
Paul Fussell, Wartime
Lawrence Graham, Member of the Club
Brendan Halpin, It Takes a Worried Man
Judith Rich Harris, the Nurture Assumption
Naomi Klein, No Logo
Jim Knipfel, Quitting the Nairobi Trio
Greg Mitchell, the Campaign of the Century
Joe Queenan, Balsamic Dreams
Jon Ronson, Them: Adventures with Extremists
Silvanus Thompson, Calculus Made Easy
Jean Twenge, Generation Me
James Twitchell, Adcult USA

(arguments)
Abortion
Avian flu
Communism
Health care reform (Obama's)
Iraq war, aftermath
John McCain
Libertarianism
Political (in)Correctness
Sarah Palin
Sept. 11 attacks
the war between the horrible teachers and the splendid kids
the war between the horrible teachers: an unhappy sequel

(miscellaneous)
"Arteries Sickly" (a song)
"Automatic for the Office Monster" (a song)
Civilization and its malcontents
"Correct Mattress Usage" (a poem)
Donovan Vassily Block, b. 11-17-06
Epinionators, quaint tribal customs of
fatherhood, the beginning
Friday Night Ramble #37
"Guided by Voices" (a song)
"I Continuum I" (a song)
"Little Audio Sparklers" (a song)
Oddball: the team sport not sweeping America
one empty prompt, 25 solemn minutes and me
re-learning to drive
some books that changed me
Stairway2Drew asks me silly interview questions
the Volkswagen GTI: my wife's pet car
Voodoo Dad, slight return
you're 16, you're a questions write-off, and you're mine