tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183604922011-08-08T03:55:24.791-07:00...home of dystopian ramblings, deep philisophical rumblings, and obsessive musings.Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-36160846062377068662010-04-30T21:07:00.001-07:002010-04-30T21:07:00.626-07:00

new URL for this blog (the pure jennacide.com URL will do something else, soon... something far, far better): http://jennacidalideation.blogspot.com/

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-87264240978960698012010-04-22T14:57:00.001-07:002010-04-30T20:48:57.096-07:00

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Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-7573134248307074042010-04-22T14:48:00.001-07:002010-04-22T14:48:45.350-07:00

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-25206166093071748162010-01-27T21:35:00.000-08:002010-01-27T21:35:23.043-08:00

they're calling it "the mean girls of south hadley" and 2 girls are being "disciplined" for bullying a girl who came there from ireland, and killed herself. like everything else involving groups of ppl that don't want to look at themselves it's being treated as an isolated incident. but if you read the comments after the article, it's SO clear that it's not. i don't like to admit that i ever

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-81758080177332387712010-01-27T21:15:00.001-08:002010-01-27T21:15:25.329-08:00

hi freedom centers, i used to be a freedm center in good standing (& my downward dog was alrite too). i lepht the groop because 1) i found it hard to communikate because i have mental problemz and 2) becoz i felt like there was a higharchy to the groop which went against my own inner anarchy. i felt alienated by the groupthink & thinktank and i always felt like a fish out of a watertank. follow

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-14493748514437275692010-01-19T10:50:00.000-08:002010-01-19T10:50:29.495-08:00

3 things what piss me off: 1) sheeple. 2) sociopaths. 3) the willfully ignorant.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-29089617446856936652010-01-05T18:36:00.000-08:002010-01-05T18:36:33.546-08:00

jenna & sage go to hollywood! from Jenna Wikler on Vimeo.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-88556335400461228622010-01-04T18:09:00.000-08:002010-01-04T18:09:32.383-08:00

oh, paradise city... wow... adam cohen, surveillance-cam apologist extraordinaire, i am truly impressed by your flood of posts over the last several days, offering "evidence" of the wonders of surveillance. i would like to make you a proposal. i am willing to consider your position(s) under one condition: that you buy me one of these amazing high-tech spy cams that can do what you claim - work

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-2345321657685652492009-11-04T14:06:00.000-08:002009-11-21T19:19:51.472-08:00

i will not ever be able to accept the hilton and i don't care if it has the most wonderful cafe in the world even if they lower themselves to allowing locals to dine there. it is simply wrong to plop down an enormous and UGLY piece of bad architecture in the middle of an historic town, dwarfing all the other buildings and destroying life for all the residents of the green street apartments. it

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-81855255540221681862009-09-01T14:07:00.000-07:002009-09-05T20:13:34.682-07:00

Jenna the pest?Man have I been thinkin about you- whew-I originally asked you for an email address to write you a love letter, based solely on you inviting me to make out. I think I'll still write that letter, but then I'll expand on how the events of the evening made me appreciate you even more- But beware, cause I can lay down the cheese pretty thick, ha! I wish I could do more than write you a

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-21521189599809254642009-08-27T04:45:00.000-07:002009-08-30T17:59:08.990-07:00

and might i say: 1) what a waste; and 2) GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-13490985276621159372009-06-27T18:14:00.000-07:002009-06-27T19:00:27.573-07:00

i just went out to cornucopia to get food i needed from there before it closed at 9pm. also needed to get a file from acme surplus. ducked thru as many back alleys as possible but couldn't help encountering hoards of happy talking people on my way. i had to avoid them kind of like how you play frogger. and that's when i realized that i know how i can describe this mental state i've been stuck in

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-58641461389560206392009-06-03T07:17:00.000-07:002009-06-03T07:21:08.100-07:00

we really are "a town divided" thanks to the growing divide betw. rich & poor as well as empathic vs. self-centered. this video doesn't do the BID issue justice but i myself am mired in an issue similar to this on a more macro scale... will most likely be returning here to rant quite soon... been busy but i'm about to blow my lid over this insane "doorbell" issue i'm having.this is not about me

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-30954003470358736212009-05-08T14:16:00.000-07:002009-05-08T16:40:47.565-07:00

ok i'm annoyed at some stupidity.i was looking up trauma/neglect/abuse/recovery stuff last night in hopes of finding a lead. i decided to find out if what happened to me, regarding my injuries & other medical issues for which i requested & was denied help, would fall under the legal definition of "neglect" under today's law, if not the law of my day. (not like i'm complaining, looking to point

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-67969633804794203322009-01-27T00:09:00.000-08:002009-01-27T00:14:13.324-08:00

HELENJenna:next person to call helen, please tell her if she ever calls me again i'm going to do something horrible like try to get her put away & stripped of all her personal rights forever and ever w/a rogers order, or burglarize her home & put nair in her shampoo or shave her cat or somethign. i want her to believe that calling me would be a bad idea for HER sake b/c she obviously has no

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-86484799539385182602009-01-02T18:47:00.000-08:002009-01-02T18:55:33.343-08:00

i forget when this even was, but i had a thing or two to say. it's too bad that i come off as a total freakazoid. my ending suggestion i believe invalidated anything useful i had to say because it was so totally utopian & unrealistic (city council members actually getting to know homeless people as PEOPLE? well some here & there might or might have.) anyway this was at northampton city council

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-53803738691628530842008-12-25T11:48:00.000-08:002008-12-25T12:10:36.564-08:00

a recent back-and-forth on the massage school email list (contains only a few people) incl. my response to a comment and a query, the reaction to my response, and my reaction to that reaction. i left my therapist's office yesterday crying in rhyme, after she'd pointed out the obvious, that there is a time & a place for everything & of course a massage school email list where someone just had a

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-56596337045031036822008-12-25T11:46:00.000-08:002008-12-25T12:14:12.771-08:00

There's no earthly way of knowingWhich direction we are goingThere's no knowing where we're rowingOr which way the river's flowingIs it raining, is it snowingIs a hurricane a-blowingNot a speck of light is showingSo the danger must be growingAre the fires of Hell a-glowingIs the grisly reaper mowingYes, the danger must be growingFor the rowers keep on rowingAnd they're certainly not showingAny

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-82472273259681322282008-10-22T18:59:00.000-07:002008-10-22T19:01:24.398-07:00

i think this is very funny... esp. if you go to the page that it's on because the other headlines accusing me of destroying the world are like things i can totally imagine in real life if i haven't already seen them. if you don't know what i'm talking about just buy richard rushfield's book when it comes out!

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-45129505030583490062008-10-04T20:58:00.000-07:002008-10-04T22:27:14.143-07:00

it's been a long time since i wrote anything here... la la la, let's see what's changed. i am soooooooo fucking tired, that hasn't changed. another thing that hasn't changed is that i haven't gotten any further on megan's video. i'll tell you why. it starts with that freedom center party that only freedom center people came to where that turned out to be a good thing because half of us are

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-79270169790231864862008-09-27T19:16:00.000-07:002008-09-27T19:17:18.261-07:00

Dear American:I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you.I am working with Mr. Phil Gram,

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-91969669551789784452008-09-23T07:46:00.001-07:002008-09-23T07:46:38.205-07:00

sadly there was no video of me hooping w/bucket bennie... but it was a transformative moment. looking for an actual recording of him so i can piece something together using his music instead of a substitute like i used here.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-90878148067590129322008-09-20T09:46:00.000-07:002008-09-20T09:48:50.106-07:00

i was channelling my departed friend melissa last night when i made this & i dedicate it to her & all her loved ones. i don't really think i can channel, but as i've been going a bit psycho in general the impossible has become possible. anyway it's my first hooping/etc video that i actually like at all... a dance for missy from Jenna Wikler on Vimeo.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-45794132444854960572008-09-18T10:39:00.000-07:002008-09-18T11:06:32.806-07:00

well, just when i thought i'd had enough, i learned that a friend from college, who lived right near here in springfield and was on facebook almost every day, had suddenly died. i would write about it here but so far as i know the results of the autopsy either aren't in or they haven't been made public - in any case our mutual friends (who were closer to her than i was) haven't learned anything

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-11900279326695870292008-09-17T10:50:00.000-07:002008-09-18T11:20:10.173-07:00

Freedom Center Lucky 7 Psycho SocialOriginally uploaded by jennacideif you're in the area and have nothing better to do please come to this party on saturday night! it is guaranteed to be fun. even if you do have something better to do - blow it off, will you? my cohorts & i have put a lot of effort into this thing & so far as i know this is our first opportunity to show the world (or the city of

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-20437666447725804562008-09-13T18:29:00.000-07:002008-09-13T19:20:06.564-07:00

i just moved my website over to a newer server at my same hosting service. a bunch of stuff doesn't work now so i have to re-install boards, etc, anything with scripting really. and re-publish this blog - so i figured why not add a new post since i'm running late anyway and only have like a gazillion things to do.i am so fucking tired.what's new in news-land: well let's see, first of all i've

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-68395543859287857732008-09-09T12:34:00.001-07:002008-09-09T12:34:05.483-07:00

S.F. Literary Examiner: P@*ss on Ted Berrigan whilst Kevin Killian and Charlie Parker are like genius kidsPosted using ShareThis

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-48295072745724439332008-09-05T15:30:00.001-07:002008-09-05T15:31:56.533-07:00

amy goodman & her staff got arrested while covering the RNC - outside of the convention, where the protests were taking place. ok, like seriously, if i hear anyone talking about the "freedoms" we enjoy here as americans, i'm pretty sure i'm gonna punch them in the face.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-86347020536592118712008-09-03T18:32:00.000-07:002008-09-29T08:05:00.919-07:00

and now... the latest in quality edutainment from mischief robot productions & step offa my tip, bitch! films. marc israel and i collaborated on the screenplay for this fictitious work in which kevin and i star as a couple of "hippie loser freaks" who experiment with the LEGAL, short acting drug salvia divinorum & attempt to explain its effect to the camera. of course, hilarity ensues! SALVIA

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-34706414005260717842008-08-10T19:26:00.000-07:002008-08-10T19:31:47.137-07:00

well... for the past couple weeks i've been learning to spin poi. i got a set about a year ago but never really learned anything but the basic front-crossover. my own limitations kept me from proceeding. suddenly this summer it occurred to me to start hunting down tutorials on youtube and that's what i've been doing with pretty much ALL of my non-hooping, non-social, and non-working time. in

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-27309491777116546982008-07-25T17:24:00.001-07:002008-07-25T17:25:30.135-07:00

this is a very funny article. i can relate.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-15759316714639559862008-07-25T17:06:00.000-07:002008-07-25T17:19:46.158-07:00

i went to the most spectacular show last night: the she & him concert at the academy of music. the "she" is zoey deschanel, whom i've only known as an actress playing cool quirky roles in indie films, and m. ward, whose music i've loved for some time. it was interesting seeing him basically just playing & singing backup for her, when he's such a monumental musical force in his own right. i think

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-88621332181108532162008-07-21T12:54:00.001-07:002008-07-25T17:22:33.885-07:00

oh what a month it's been!!! hooping season is in full swing, i've got my sister's maniacal cat pancho living with me, and i just spent the last 4 or so weeks working with marc israel (great filmmaker & a true friend) on a music video for his newest song, "barkley the cat". i'm very fond of this project (and kind of sad that it's over) and i'm also very very fond of barkley, the cat. he's going

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-27940468601835039962008-06-09T13:27:00.000-07:002008-06-09T13:30:26.699-07:00

james kunstler has a useful & informative website called clusterfuck nation. i've read a few of his non-fiction books & i think they're great... if extremely disturbing. but he has a way of writing that's very funny and he can make you laugh while reading about extreme doomsday-ish scenarios for the future. his newest book is a novel and i haven't read it yet, but i just discovered that he was

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-87786759956969578342008-06-05T19:06:00.001-07:002008-06-05T19:10:06.148-07:00

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-36252147934713319212008-06-05T15:17:00.000-07:002008-06-05T15:23:14.506-07:00

here is a nice, concise talk on the environmental & health impacts of the traditional western meat-based diet. i just had a visit from some awesome friends from CA - a couple, sarah & eli, and their son bodi. i used to work w/bodi back in the days when i used to work. i think i met him when he was 4. he's almost 13 now. they stayed in my apt. and enjoyed 2 pretty good days in northampton before i

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-39660309650725613622008-05-16T18:51:00.000-07:002008-05-16T18:55:26.498-07:00

my friend marc informed me last night that he actually saw on the very mainstream ABC news a short piece about how one of the best things you can do for the environment is to eat less meat. vegans have known this all along, but it seems to be a pretty big deal that this concept actually got mention in the mainstream media. it's a very very quick overview of the reasons why meat is bad for the

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-28357252178736006612008-05-16T14:10:00.000-07:002008-05-16T15:07:10.437-07:00

why have i not been here since march 31? it's sometimes difficult to write when life is really fucking depressing. so i guess that's why. and yet i wish i'd been writing since so much has happened and everything in my world seems to have changed in the last few months. for a while, the upheaval was more than i could take. and i just couldn't take it. now i'm through the worst of it and can look

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-35128951920053825662008-03-31T11:27:00.000-07:002008-03-31T11:32:46.839-07:00

you are having an awful time, at besti hate to think what scary thingsgo on inside your head.my own psychosis bows down to yoursand feels inadequate;our paranoias do a daring dance of dread.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-84839489223624962972008-03-17T21:24:00.001-07:002008-03-17T21:26:00.360-07:00

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-7958817571025957912008-03-16T16:46:00.001-07:002008-03-16T17:15:35.990-07:00

this is the same batch of pictures and the blue yonder theme song, uploaded to animoto which creates an automated music video from your stuff. it was just an experiment. i don't think it works well in terms of showing off the beautiful grid. too small, too fast. but you can have the song playing while watching the slide show below and that more accurately captures the mood of the day.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-16988004871816361312008-03-16T12:12:00.000-07:002008-03-16T12:13:06.181-07:00

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-67841227261229589022008-03-12T16:25:00.001-07:002008-03-12T16:27:06.169-07:00

out by the boat house, i wanted to kiss youto know the feeling of numb, frozen lips on numb, frozen lipsbut you snarfled, and i said to myself,"this guy doesn't want to be kissed just now."i leaned my head back and tasted post-nasal dripwhich i always thought sounded like a breakfast cereal.we went skating on the ice.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-2120186298208145692008-02-20T19:15:00.000-08:002008-02-20T19:18:24.526-08:00

a kindly gentleman from canada alerted me today to the fact that the hackers had had at my page again. all they do is get in and replace my index page with their own, a page with no redeeming features whatsoever. it's really boring looking at it so i have to come here and update my blog so that a new index page will be created. i really have nothing to say though. well i do, but i don't want to

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-47377188336338952792008-01-18T10:03:00.001-08:002008-01-18T10:04:02.016-08:00

more genius from mark morford

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-48324502850087227342008-01-10T12:09:00.000-08:002008-01-10T12:10:19.970-08:00

I Got What America Needs Right Here.onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom: 1;}.onion_embed img {border: 0 !important;}.onion_embed a {display: inline;}.onion_embed a.img {float: left !important;margin: 0 5px 0 0 !important;width: 66px;display:

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-91841969322886705452007-11-29T19:44:00.000-08:002007-11-30T04:48:16.210-08:00

here is al franken at ben's wedding, explaining the tradition of the smashing of the glass, which took place at the reception rather than at the wedding ceremony itself. al was a good sport. someone asked me if i had any pictures of him & me and i explained that no, i didn't, because i was the one taking all the pictures. i have many pix of al not with me - talking with beth's dad, the

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-48652367816323884592007-11-25T16:13:00.000-08:002007-11-25T19:12:05.410-08:00

well, the birds have been sacrificed, the cousin has been wed, the big celebrity has left our midst, it's all over and done with, and now we can all go home. i am relieved. there is only so much excitement i can take. actually my biggest excitement of the entire thanksgiving/wedding weekend was after the wedding when i went into the bathroom to be by myself so i could mope (all the happy people

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-6443187506539119842007-11-21T20:27:00.000-08:002007-11-21T20:32:44.050-08:00

word has it that al franken is going to lead us in dancing the horah at ben's wedding. yippee!!!!!!!!hava nagilahava nagilahava nagila venis'mechahava neranenahava neranenahava neranena venis'mecha

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-69142348193421479942007-11-21T17:36:00.000-08:002007-11-25T19:13:23.814-08:00

 here is ali the serial killer wrapping her latest victim up in plastic. dexter eat your heart out! for thrills and chills of the much more mundane variety you can check out my latest flickr set there. so far nothing really excitingly mundane has happened today. we went to the goodwill and then had falafel. i can't believe that tomorrow is the annual ritual animal sacrifice! even worse, i can't

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-60033341233605816892007-11-21T10:34:00.000-08:002007-11-25T19:14:32.922-08:00

 

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-7947935782228318082007-11-19T22:02:00.000-08:002007-11-25T19:15:14.261-08:00

 parking for peanuts??? parking if you have peanuts? parking if you want to throw peanuts? parking if you ate peanuts on the plane and are ready to upchuck them? i did eat peanuts on the plane (the only vegan option) but i felt no need to upchuck them even though i was illened by the hours of waiting around all day for to get to my destiny. destination? nay, destiny. ali met me at the airport (on

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-24795313271071345232007-11-11T18:35:00.000-08:002007-11-11T19:05:12.005-08:00

in just over a week i am heading down to arkansas for the wedding of my cousin ben, who's getting married the saturday after the annual national ritual animal sacrifice. i'll be staying for a week with alison, my cosmic twin! the last time i saw her was in april when i flew down to jump-start my life (it worked.) this time i am hoping for a sort of creative jump-start, since i already have a life

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-81487611343941891532007-10-21T17:07:00.000-07:002007-10-21T17:09:22.768-07:00

check this out. this is so happy... i wish i could hoop like this... i wish i could smile like this!

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-3289288477513133452007-10-07T21:34:00.000-07:002007-10-07T21:42:50.394-07:00

tonight i went with kevin and nicole to see spearhead. i got my weed confiscated but they didn't get my bowl. it was a great show. afterward there was a book signing and i had an opportunity to tell michael franti thanks for the film festival he put on at the roxie in san francisco where nobody showed up but it was awesome anyway. i remember that he brought his kid to it. he kept saying "yeah,

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-81827003136703459852007-10-02T07:28:00.000-07:002007-10-02T07:45:35.479-07:00

i don't know how this happens. there is some mysterious person out there who scouts for videos to put on hooping.org and puts them up there as "video of the day" and "trick of the week". i made trick of the week once, and kevin is still up there right now as trick of the week for the second week in a row. anyway, our "getcha hoop on" video went live on youtube only yesterday, and i checked

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-80424978107850080052007-10-01T10:26:00.000-07:002007-10-01T10:38:20.771-07:00

last wednesday and the wednesday before that we shot the northampton hooping anthem, "getcha hoop on" in pulaski park. it was the most amazingly fun time... and we were blessed to be joined by the kennedys for both shoots. because they totally totally rock. go see them perform live if you can. anyway derek went away for the weekend but i guess he kept himself very busy working on this video

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-30772934173717589482007-09-27T20:16:00.000-07:002007-09-27T20:39:35.789-07:00

i am just sitting here feeling rather restless and it's kind of getting late enough to call it a day but i'm not ready to give in yet... still hoping for more Things to Happen before i call it quits. i had company earlier and i'm always restless after i have company. scott came over with an entourage of three, to give us a tutorial on flash. they were late, so i caught a sweet catnap while

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-44704827112404643742007-09-25T15:33:00.001-07:002007-09-25T15:56:07.837-07:00

i wonder what people think of me. i have a feeling that it's way off. i know i need to learn to smile more. ever since i was a little kid people have been telling me to SMILE!!! and now when i see pictures of myself hooping i look so goddam serious it's ridiculous, i see that i really need to get into the practice of smiling on a regular basis. maybe there's something wrong with my face and i

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-23639652814629929302007-09-25T05:43:00.001-07:002007-09-25T05:58:21.332-07:00

here, to save you the trouble of going over to my flickr page, is a slide show of all my photos from the burning man trip. well not all of them but 220 of them. which is about 1/8 of them. most are of the bus trip there & back actually and not of burning man itself for i felt that it would be useless to try & capture that. i figured that there were professional photographers there who were surely

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-2599095030642735982007-09-23T20:37:00.000-07:002007-09-23T20:57:34.932-07:00

just came home to empty apartment, no dog. which i do every time i come home now, but not usually at this time of night and not always alone, so i don't generally notice it so poignantly. tonight it would have been nice to be greeted by a canine someone. a human someone would have made me feel crowded. i was at a friend's house; this friend has a kid and this evening i learned just the very very

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-56085165818198405322007-09-21T11:00:00.000-07:002007-09-21T11:04:14.708-07:00

PISCESASTROLOGY SONGby Harvey Sid Fisher ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO LITTLE FISHESAND EACH HAD THEIR OWN LITTLE WHIMS AND THEIR WISHESPISCES MOODS KEEP CHANGING SOME SAY I'M INSECURETO BE OR NOT TO BE I CAN'T DECIDE FOR SUREI LOVE FANTASIZING, MY WORLD IS ON A SWINGIF DREAMLAND HAD A RULER, PISCES WOULD BE KINGPISCES, PISCES, PISCES THE WATER SIGNTHE MAGICAL MINDSO GENTLE AND KINDP-P-P-PISCES

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-52864869974461013872007-09-18T20:13:00.000-07:002007-09-25T16:41:15.477-07:00

remember back in april when i returned from little rock and i vowed to get me some sort of a social life? tonight i looked around me and i said to myself, wow, this here sure resembles something akin to a social life, it really does. it doesn't involve single malt scotch or making out but i am hanging out with a bunch of friends and we are eating burritos and taking pictures in the park and then

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on my way home today from applying to be a school bus driver, i found myself in the horrible town of south hadley and decided to pay a visit to the house where i grew up, or spent a good 9 years of my young life anyway. it was just as ugly as i'd remembered, maybe even more so. the trees help to compensate for the ugliness of the house a little bit but in the end it's just a ramshackle

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1008327639225448852007-09-16T19:56:00.000-07:002007-09-16T20:08:37.922-07:00

it took me a while but i managed to find hadria at burning man and get her to teach me how to do that sexy barrel roll thing that she does. she's a really cool person. i LOVE her hooping. of all the hoopers i've watched, hadria is by far my favorite. i think it's because she's kind of my speed... and i can aspire to something like this. not like i'm anywhere near close. but whatever. i love that

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-79318002363518798032007-09-14T15:38:00.000-07:002007-09-14T15:43:00.768-07:00

sometimes i just can't hoop anymore. so now i have a new activity with which to occupy my body when i have whacked myself in the face with the hoop just one too many times. i ordered a beautiful set of practice poi from: Home of Poi Comprehensive information about poi, staff and twirling, including animated lessons, discussion forums, building instructions, articles and a shop.(those are their

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-30001640090651505732007-08-14T15:51:00.000-07:002007-08-14T15:52:35.284-07:00

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-64293736577722203702007-08-14T15:15:00.000-07:002007-08-14T17:36:14.051-07:00

i just got back from my grandma's memorial in lexington, KY. the turnout was profoundly impressive. people really dug that grandma of mine! everyone in my family who was there (my mom, my uncle dan, my cousins ruthie and jef, and mysefl) got up and spoke a few words before the crowd. mine were completely unrehearsed as i hadn't decided until the moment i spoke that i would in fact speak. i spoke

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-34252109114391961492007-07-21T09:31:00.000-07:002007-07-21T10:11:29.849-07:00

did i say i was going to stop posting youtube videos? sorry, i didn't do it. they're just too convenient. also convenient is posting small photos directly from flickr. the diff is the youtube vids make my blog look bad. anyway here is my news. number one, world hoop day was on 7/7/07 and at 7 pm i learned that my grandma had died. so fuck you to the person who only rated my video of that day with

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-23284091635409953982007-06-16T14:36:00.000-07:002007-06-16T14:38:17.284-07:00

hooping.org has me up this week as "trick of the week" for my shoulder trick demonstration, even though it was shot sideways. i have NO idea who put it up there! it's exciting. everyone i saw today already knew about it but i just found out about it from megan.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-194633848248806852007-05-25T16:01:00.001-07:002007-05-25T16:01:13.105-07:00

emotional benefits Originally uploaded by jennacide i am going to stop posting YouTube videos here on account of i don't like how they have a white background square which does not look nice against the background of my blog. in other news, on thursday i went to brooklyn to see "oliver" performed by my sister's class of ESL kids from poland and bangladesh and you name it. they did a great

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-55741926188991849352007-05-10T15:29:00.001-07:002007-05-10T15:29:56.895-07:00

tracey w/2 hoops Originally uploaded by jennacide. the good weather has us hoopers out and about!!! check out this pic of tracey spinning 2 hoops at once. she's getting really good at that. me, when i get them down around my knees they fall to the ground. i can get them up to my chest and back though. we seem to be skipping seasons here in northampton, MA. i do believe we missed autumn

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-46563298548384864512007-05-04T22:00:00.001-07:002007-05-04T22:00:57.748-07:00

me with exene!!!!!!!!! Originally uploaded by jennacide. the knitters came to town tonight and played at the iron horse. tracey went with me. this was the third time i've seen them - i love them! the first two times were in petaluma, CA and were pretty much the only times i was happy to live there. anyway, they rocked so hard tonight i was in complete awe... i don't know where they get

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-35608305167922907922007-04-28T16:16:00.000-07:002007-05-02T15:10:21.432-07:00

i haven't been much into the blogging thing these days. there has not been much to say. my life has been so fucking mundane!!! the only really good thing in it has been hooping with tracey, taking these hooping classes and practicing w/her and hanging w/her in general, for she is one of the coolest people i've met in, like, ever. but there's a problem and i figured out what it is, when i was

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-62986227453447106172007-03-16T14:25:00.000-07:002007-03-16T14:53:35.705-07:00

i do not like even-numbered years. and both 4 and 0 are even numbers. plus there's also the whole thing of being freaked about getting older. i don't actually give a fuck what age i am, but i want to LOOK younger. and until a couple years ago people always thought i was a good ten years younger than i actually was. i guess a breakdown and two years of deep depression will age a person. that's the

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-69363006266594571482007-02-25T18:44:00.000-08:002007-02-25T19:15:58.274-08:00

today went with tracey to the really BIG show at the academy of music. i could go on about the various acts but we'd gone specifically to see the illustrious megan e. labonte hooping alongside the dixieland jazz band primate fiasco. the band was pretty great, esp. when they weren't singing. but megan was amazing. she has a dancer's style and grace, and a good deal of self-taught hooping skill.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-72252903415524228132007-02-24T07:56:00.000-08:002007-02-24T17:37:27.281-08:00

i have been severely depressed all day today. unable to work, i decided to make my first hooping video even though i wasn't warmed up and i'm not good enough yet to be making videos to put on youtube, etc. but i thought that playing around in imovie a bit would get me in a better mood and make me better able to deal with working. and it did do that, sort of. now i'm in a good enough mood to work

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-45774351497822672682007-02-21T08:08:00.000-08:002007-02-21T08:25:36.764-08:00

my stepfather is a professional photographer who makes most of his living producing large-size prints for local artists. so he's doing a bunch of prints for a couple local artists who never took care of their negatives or slides, and now they've been scanned and given to stan with millions of scratches and holes. i have now been hired to do photo retouching on a freelance basis. so i have a job!

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-89465406333808177502007-02-19T09:44:00.000-08:002007-02-19T10:05:46.889-08:00

my doctor is out of town so i have to go to the local emergency room today to try & get help for a really bad sinus headache that's been stuck in my head for the past 3 days. i've been trying to ice away the pain but it shoots all the way through. holding an ice pack to my eye isn't all that pleasant anyway.but i am waiting here killing time while the fantastic freeware utility isquint converts

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1171379657029246602007-02-13T07:13:00.000-08:002007-02-19T09:14:48.676-08:00

don't hack my site unless you have something worthwhile to say. thank you.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1165586209969381292006-12-08T05:56:00.000-08:002007-02-19T10:11:14.122-08:00

Are Humans Totally Stupid? / Either we're hell-bent on self-destruction, or we truly care about the planet. Or, you know, both

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1164817035304730912006-11-29T08:17:00.000-08:002007-01-08T22:41:43.396-08:00

Sex Will Make You Go Blind / Single? Under 30? You are in grave danger. Your government says so. Please, stop laughingand i thought i was old, late in the game, when i lost my virginity at age 17. i felt so bad that i hadn't managed to do it before college. and then in college, it took me a few months to get the deed done. what a late bloomer i was. now, i see how lucky i was to be young then and

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1163775757784902972006-11-17T07:02:00.000-08:002006-11-25T18:52:11.993-08:00

When Apple Rules The World / What does it mean when you really, really want to lick a new MacBook Pro, and swoon?

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1163470331415380842006-11-13T18:01:00.000-08:002006-11-13T18:12:11.440-08:00

i've been silent for a while because my medications at one point rendered me incapable of writing, or even reading. it was a time of intense boredom. i worried if that was what it was like to be "functional" in the world because i did seem to be way more functional in other aspects of my life such as taking care of myself, sleeping regular hours, etc. but BORING...anyway i'm a bit better now.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1152858428267878952006-07-13T23:22:00.000-07:002006-07-15T21:09:31.476-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } me & jenna, originally uploaded by i heard a fly buzz. this moment... was one of the best parts of the only 4 good days of my long and extremely traumatic journey back east! i will post another time about my misadventures.

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1149284993853422022006-06-02T14:38:00.000-07:002006-06-02T14:49:53.866-07:00

see? for once i'm not talking about mark morford. so there!two days ago... and i've been in way too much of a running-ragged panicked state to do what i wanted to do which was to immediately run upstairs and post this... i was expecting a package which could help me resurrect my dead ibook. it was wednesday late morning. i heard my dog bark. outside the window i heard a truck. i looked, and saw

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1149284120847738242006-06-02T14:35:00.000-07:002006-06-02T14:35:20.890-07:00

at least 80% of the time his columns speak directly to the questions haunting my spirit in a language that even i can understant. yes, little old me. he hits the nail on the head so many times, i wonder if he's ever hit his thumb & how badly or if he ever hit anyone else's thumb. i wonder how much love mail he gets compared to hate mail. here's the second-to-latest:Death Death Death Death Death /

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1148525769573590202006-05-24T19:56:00.000-07:002006-05-25T09:00:49.220-07:00

from the amazing and shockingly beautiful of mind and spirit mark morford comes the latest i-have-no-idea-how-to-feel shocker: Can You Still Hate Wal-Mart? / It's a shockingly eco-friendly plan from the world's most toxic retailer. Did hell just freeze over?

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1148405738454805612006-05-23T10:35:00.000-07:002006-05-23T10:37:02.540-07:00

on my way home from the hardware store last night i drove past an ambulance which was arriving for one of these deadly shootings in richmond. four shootings in one night!!! unrelated, but most of them w/in a few blocks of me where i live. richmond is like a little glimpse into the future of normal life in this country. not pretty. moving to a liberal oasis will at least buy me some time... i'm

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1148078858442672702006-05-19T15:47:00.000-07:002006-05-19T15:47:38.453-07:00

Jenna Sunshinenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18360492.post-1147572163864766072006-05-13T18:40:00.000-07:002006-07-16T14:43:51.660-07:00

i erased everything that was here before and am starting over. this applies to my life as well - i am getting the hell out of dodge and starting over back where i came from, in northampton. my ultimate aim is to get there before the crash. of. civilizations. i'm expecting things to get really hideous, really soon, and i just want to be near my friends and family when it all comes down. last

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