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I am a passionate hair comb collector and student of jewelry history. I worship Suzanne Farrell. I'm also part of two online community teams in the computer games industry: the Sulake Corporation (Habbo Hotel UK) and Mindcandy (Moshi Monsters).

ballet, classical music, gardening, hair comb collecting, my pets -- although one can consider them a full-time job. ;-)

Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights, Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Sheaffer's biography of Eugene O'Neill, Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose, Will Shakespeare: Hamlet, Henry James: Portrait of a Lady, Jacob Bronowski: The Ascent of Man, James Joyce: The Dead

Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), Ikiru (1952), Finding Nemo (2003), WALL-E (2008)

The Tallis Scholars, Chanticleer, The Berlin Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Chopin, Glenn Gould on Bach, Yo Yo Ma, Slava, David Oistrach, Sviatoslav Richter, Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, Cynthia Gregory, Ivan Nagy, Anthony Dowell, Gelsey Kirkland, Mikhail Barishnikov, Nina Ananiashvili.

Dexter, CSI: GSR forever. Masterpiece Mystery: Foyle's War, Miss Marple, and Inspector Lynley.

Most people consider combs to be the miscellaneous throwaway items of estate sales. They are not. They are serious works of art,made by the greatest artists of all periods in all cultures. My blog talks about my favorites,on ebay and beyond.