Boxing Helena

Boxing Helena
reviewed by Greta Christina

Bad. Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad. Faulty, poor, unsatisfactory; deficient, defective, lacking; flawed, inadequate, inferior, shabby, shoddy, substandard; blundering, bumbling, embarrassing, incompetent, inept; boring, dull, insipid, lackluster, tedious, unimaginative; artificial, contrived, false, fake, pretentious; asinine, dense, dumb, inane, laughable, moronic, stupid; banal, cliched, hackneyed, trite; heavy-handed, obvious, one-dimensional, unsubtle; half-hearted, insignificant, insubstantial, paltry, trivial, worthless; flimsy, precarious, rickety, unsteady, unsubstantial; cheap, coarse, crude, lurid, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, trashy, vulgar; lesser, low-grade, mediocre, second-rate; aggravating, annoying, disagreeable, insufferable, irritating, unpleasant; diseased, feeble, sick, weak; deadly, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, toxic, virulent; agonizing, dismal, excruciating, lamentable, miserable, painful, pathetic, pitiful, wretched; abominable, appalling, atrocious, awful, deplorable, dreadful, ghastly, hideous, horrendous, horrible, terrible; disgusting, distasteful, foul, nauseating, obnoxious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening; debasing, degrading, disgraceful, humiliating, ignominious, mortifying, shameful; abhorrent, base, contemptible, corrupt, despicable, detestable, loathsome, odious, sordid, vile. On the other hand, Sherilyn Fenn does have very nice breasts.

Copyright 1993 Greta Christina. Originally published in San Francisco Bay Times.