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Gender Female
Occupation Student
Location New York, NY
Introduction recent New Yorker, lifelong fan
Interests Reading and purchasing books. News/politics. Public radio. Comedians. Tea and chocolate and, recently, s'mores popcorn. Mad Men and The X-Files and 30 Rock and Sherlock and Downton Abbey and The Hour and The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Lots of TV, actually. Cooking. Whole Foods, Zabar's and Murray's Cheese.
Favorite Movies All the President's Men. The King's Speech. Annie Hall. The Lives of Others. Fanny and Alexander. The Royal Tenenbaums. LA Confidential. Some Like It Hot. Anchorman. Badlands. Hugo. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The Graduate. Pride and Prejudice. Breakfast at Tiffany's. There Will Be Blood.
Favorite Music Radiohead. The Beatles. Nico. Graffiti6. Beth Jeans Houghton. Maverick Sabre. Frank Sinatra. A.A. Bondy. Common. Bob Dylan. Ella Fitzgerald. A Tribe Called Quest. Ben Folds. Velvet Underground. Mos Def. Andrew Bird.
Favorite Books To name a few, Of Human Bondage. Matilda. The Namesake. Naked Pictures of Famous People. Anything by Thomas Pynchon or David Foster Wallace or James Joyce or Virginia Woolf or John le Carre.

Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?

Banana peel - you can cut it up/slice it to make it thinner and lighter, like balsa wood. The weight of water in the sock would just weight it down.