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Frances

Oh Lord, Make My Enemies Ridiculous

About Me

Will write for food. Check me out at: Ringtalk Harvard Independent RedIvy On Harvard Time The Harvard Voice

My Interests

Boxing, Tennis, Politics, 80s new wave music, New York, California, flowery prose, physics, foreign film, fishing, Greek culture, multilingualism

I'd like to meet:

Rugged New Jersey folk heroes and shamelessly frivolous pop culture icons. I'd really like to meet Arturo Gatti and David Hasselhoff, but for now I guess Jim McGreevey and Fabio will have to do.

Music:

Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, U2, New Order, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, David Bowie, Tarkan, Miguel Bosé, Sting, INXS, Donna Summer, Goldfrapp, Savage Garden, Tiziano Ferro, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Eros Ramazzotti, Oasis, Justin Timberlake, David Bisbal, Amy Winehouse

Movies:

Fitzcarraldo, Europa Europa, Woyzeck, Cobra Verde, Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Der Zorn Gottes), La Nuit de Varennes, The Graduate, JFK, The Three Amigos, Goodfellas, Lost in Translation, Valley Girl, Saint Elmo's Fire, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Amadeus, Weekend at Bernie's, Talk Radio, Rush Hour, City of God, Born on the Fourth of July

Television:

The Colbert Report, Jeopardy!, Anderson Cooper 360º, La Tele de Tu Vida, Tucker, Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien, The Soup, Country Fried Home Videos, Da Ali G Show, ¿Que Pasa USA?, Early Edition, SNL, The O'Reilly Factor, The Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno, I Love the '80s!

Books:

Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), In Cold Blood (Truman Capote), 1984 (George Orwell), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Candide (Voltaire), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka), Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke), Le Rouge et le Noir (Stendhal), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche), The Prince (Niccoló Machiavelli), Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot)

Heroes:

Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Larry Merchant, Steven Levitsky

My Blog

Ricky Hatton’s Homecoming

NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR HATTONUnion City, NJ- How sweet it is to come home. There is a healing process returning that requires praise from family for any little triumph that may occur in the processli...
Posted by Frances on Tue, 27 May 2008 10:59:00 PST

The Don King Senior Citizen Brigade is Here!

ELDERLY PROMOTER PROMOTES ELDERLYCambridge, MA- Do you hear that clinking noise in the distance? And the hearty Santa Claus laugh accompanying its rhythmic swagger? That's the sound of Don King laughi...
Posted by Frances on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:41:00 PST

The 2008 Boxing Crystal Ball!

Union City, NJ- The year 2007- objectively the best year our sport has enjoyed in this millennium- has somehow managed to leave the boxing community more inflated with unanswered questions and absurd ...
Posted by Frances on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:42:00 PST

Mayweather/Hatton Postfight!

MAYWEATHER BESTS HATTON, BUT REST OF SEASON BESTS FIGHT!2007 BOXING FINALE NOT ALL THATCambridge, MA- The end of the best boxing season to come along in years has arrived. Last night's comparatively l...
Posted by Frances on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:17:00 PST

Don King’s Traveling Circus and Kermit Cintron!

ENJOYABLE PPV CARD FROM "CITY OF ANGELS"Cambridge, MA -Press conference melees, glass pseudo-cages dividing the fighters, a cameo appearance by the President of the United States, and an undercard wit...
Posted by Frances on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:07:00 PST

Mosley/Cotto- The Hits Just Keep on Coming!

AS CLIMATE COOLS, BOXING GETS HOT!Cambridge, MA- Many people mourn the death of summer as they cast their shorts and tank tops into the dark abyss that is their seasonal storage closet. Sun, beach, wa...
Posted by Frances on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:47:00 PST

Kessler-Calzaghe Fight Preview

Cambridge, MA- The leaves in New England have turned the color of the year--s sunset, feebly resisting the winds that bully them to the floor. Little children flock to pumpkin fields and Party City st...
Posted by Frances on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:12:00 PST

Edison Miranda, His Shadows, & the Middleweights

MIDDLEWEIGHT MAYHEM A LIKELY SCENARIOCambridge, MA- The extent to which weight division dynamics can shape the career of any individual boxer has always sparked debate among followers of boxing. When ...
Posted by Frances on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:24:00 PST

The Feminization of Boxing

COLUMN SURE TO RANKLE OSCAR & OTHERS!Cambridge, MA- Boxing is by no means a feminine sport. It is as manly as any game where the objective is to mutilate the opponent's face as much as possible, and t...
Posted by Frances on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:33:00 PST

Don King Mugs Jameel McCline!

Union City, NJ- "Beware of men with two first names" is an aphorism I often try to live by. There just seems to be something sneaky and off-color about a man without a proper surname; if you don't bel...
Posted by Frances on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:17:00 PST