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Helen of Troy

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Paul Simonon so bad, Einstein, James Dean, Joel-Peter Witkin, Salvador Dali, Frida Khalo, Tina Modotti, Andy Warhol, Gustav Klimt, Man Ray, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dalai Lama, Harvey Keitel, Steve McQueen, Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson..

Music:

The Clash, The Police, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Bjork, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, De La Soul, Aterciopelados, Thievery Corporation, B-Tribe, Massive Attack, Beastie Boys, Grace Jones, Tricky, Bob Marley, Devo, Peaches, Tijuana No!, Manu Chao, Julieta Venegas, White Stripes, Gorillaz, Mecano, Bajofondo Tango Club, Blues

Movies:

Clockwork Orange, Rebel Without a Cause, The Story of the Weeping Camel, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Dog Day Afternoon, Me You Them, Betty Blue, Sixteen Candles, Taxi Driver, Star Wars, The Shining, The Omen, Blade Runner, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Departed, Like Water for Chocolate, Twin Peaks, Amores Perros, The Princess Bride, Scarface, Trainspotting, Goodfellas, The Godfather

Television:

SpongeBob Squarepants, Discovery + History Channel, Animal Planet, programs in languages I don't understand

Books:

Don Quijote de la Mancha, Love in the Times of Cholera, Naked Lunch, Brave New World, East of Eden, The Little Prince, The Man and the Sea, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Ana Frank's Diary, The Naked Ape, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Las Mil y una Noche, McTeague, Sidhartha, Like Water for Chocolate, Andersen's Fairy Tales, 100 Years of Solitude, The Confederacy of Dunces, The Second Sex, El Arte de Amar

Heroes:

Homeless people

My Blog

Thank you, Vatican, for the new Sins 2.0

San Francisco Chronicle. Wednesday, March 19, 2008 by Mark MorfordThis just in: If you’re an obscenely wealthy drug-dealing pedophile stem-cell researcher who drives a Hummer and doesn’t r...
Posted by Helen of Troy on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:16:00 PST

Darwin Belated American B-Day Present

Open Forum article SFChronicle by Susan Jacoby. February 12, 2008Today is the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth (the 199th, as it happens) and, as usual, scientists around the world will hold cere...
Posted by Helen of Troy on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:47:00 PST

Suddenly the cosmos filled with supermassive black holes

This article appeared on page A - 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle on November 2, 2007For years, astronomers speculated that a giant, mysterious force lay at the center of the Milky Way, but it wasn'...
Posted by Helen of Troy on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:11:00 PST

Promiscuos queens produce happier hives

Check this out:From SF Chronicle, October 17,2007.In the pitiless world of honeybees, it pays to be floozy. Research at North Carolina State University shows the happiest, most productive bee colonie...
Posted by Helen of Troy on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:47:00 PST

Red Hair is a Genetic Mutation!

Wow, I had no idea. A few interesting facts:- MC1R, the melanocortin 1 receptoris, is the gene for red hair and its found on the 16th chromosome.- We make only 4% of the world's population. Scotland ...
Posted by Helen of Troy on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:54:00 PST

Gay Pride Effect

Me and Angus think: we want u
Posted by Helen of Troy on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:36:00 PST