Barba Roja

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Gender Male
Industry Government
Occupation Foreign Service Officer
Location Washington , DC, United States
Introduction An inside look at life in the Foreign Service
Interests al franken, ancient poetry, anna moffo, anthropology, black hair, carl hiaasan, cecilia bartoli, conan o'brian, crisp sheets, de sade, democratic socialism, family guy, fencing, futurama, gyros, insanity, italian, jon stewart, kathleen battle, latin, liberalism, luciano pavarotti, molly ivins, mozart, music, non-kosher foods, opera, orwell, playing the cello, politics, reading, red and blue, rhyming poetry, rossini, seinfeld, social democracy, spanish, talking to strangers, the simpsons, the west wing, verdi, well-placed sarcasm, writing.
Favorite Movies The Princess Bride, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Amadeus, The Red Violin, Sideways, Million Dollar Baby, Spaceballs, Silent Movie, Bananas, Annie Hall, Sleeper, Casablanca, Some like it Hot, Arsenic and Old Lace, Hot Shots
Favorite Music Verdi, mozart, beethoven, Rossini, Puccini, handel, haydn, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Rasputina, Apocalyptica, Bob Marley, Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Nobuo Uematsu, Iron & Wine, Styx, The Clash, Weezer, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, David Brubeck
Favorite Books The Sword in the Stone, Homage to Catalonia, Down & Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Great Expectations, Huckleberry Finn, A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, I Claudius, Pride and Prejudice, Catullus, The Trial of Socrates, Molly Ivins, Fast Food Nation, Government, Good-Bye to All That, Justine, The Namesake, The Lost Continent, the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Well, maybe they don't need them, but don't you think that some fish might like a bicycle?

The clothes of whomever was providing me with said dinner.