Happy New Year

December 31, 2005

I just posed in my Wonder Woman outfit in an old silver phonebooth.

I’m off to see They Might Be Giants.

Happy birthday to you-know-who.

Photos soon! Re-gifting Show recap soon! I love you all!

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Punned by the Times

December 31, 2005

Here is the last audio clip from my radio interview on “The Stress Factor,” in which I discuss seeing my breakup mocked in the New York Times (yes, this really happened!)

Punned by the Times
Related posts:

audio: I had a baby with a gay man
a radio clip, featuring “fellatio plus melons”
shout-out to all my peeps from Montclair State and “The Stress Factor”

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Fleshbot likes their hotties smart but plasticwrapped

December 30, 2005

Congratulations to Molly Crabapple for being named one of Fleshbot’s Top Ten Hotties of 2005. They picked a really creepy photo of Molly wrapped in plastic like a RealDoll (creepy in a good way; the photographer is my buddy Burke Heffner).

Molly has declined to be photographed as Wonder Woman for the Wonder Woman blog, and has instead offered to draw herself as Wonder Woman. Oh, the powers of illustration!

And to finally finish kissing the ass of my already-BFF, here’s her latest New York Press article, Naked in the City. And if you’re an artiste, go draw at Dr. Sketchy’s in Williamsburg on January 14th. I’ll be there even though I can’t draw.

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mail order husbands

December 30, 2005

I found this mail-order husband site off a link from a Salon article about legislation to protect mail-order brides. The men all seem to be Ukrainian, and some of them are kind of cute. I liked this fellow’s profile:

“I am a marriner, navigation officer. I finished Marrine Accademy. I love to explore Internet when i am not in the sea. And I like music, movies, nature and many other things.I speak perfect English.”

It is, in fact, difficult to explore Internet when you are in the sea! But, oh, how great it would be to explore Internet with you.

I wonder if the guy advertising “I have a secondary-special education and I am an operator of gas boilers” realizes that American women will think he is retarded.

I like the guy who offers “I like cars, help in cooking in the kitchen, sauna.” Who doesn’t want to get cooking in the sauna with a Ukrainian looking for a Green Card? Hott!

Check out this open-shirted literature hunk (pictured). This is ridiculous. I’ve always wanted a man who can “wear different clothing styles.”

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Tonight, someone is getting the Mickey Mouse ears

December 30, 2005

Remember the Seinfeld episode about “re-gifting” — giving as a gift something that was given to you, but you didn’t like enough to keep? Bring an unwanted gift to this show — all gifts will be circulated and redistributed, so you might come home with something better! Comedians will keep you entertained as the bad gifts go ’round.

“The Re-Gifting Comedy Show”
December 30th, 11pm, FREE
Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St in Williamsburg

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Jesus is Magic

December 29, 2005

On the Comedy Central holiday special that aired on Christmas, Sarah Silverman defined schadenfreude as German for “Look, that Jew fell down.”

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a quarter-century of wonder

December 28, 2005

So, last week when my mom saw pictures of me in my Wonder Woman underpants, she, naturally, assumed the act of wearing them was referential; of course I had had Wonder Woman underpants as a child, and of course I would remember this.

On the occasion of my visit, my mother searched through her photo collection, and finally discovered the germane photos — but it turns out, I was not four or five as she had remembered, but rather a mere two-and-a-half, which is why I have no memory of having owned (and posed for photos in) Wonder Woman underpants.

And now, having returned home to my scanner with these photos, I present, “Jen as Wonder Woman: The Past Twenty-Five Years.”

Uncanny, no?

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Announcing: The Wonder Woman Blog

December 27, 2005

Allow me to now officially announce my project with co-blogger Syd Bernstein:

*** The Wonder Woman Blog ***
An excerpt:

This blog was created due to the convergence of several events:

Unbeknownst to anyone, I had recently been to the Bust website and purchased the Wonder Woman Cami and Panty Set.
I had a vaudeville show coming up, and I like to rock a good costume from time to time. Then, while advertising the vaudeville at a comedy show the week before, I blurted out “…and I’ll be hosting in my Wonder Woman underpants!” And then I was committed to doing so.
I did, in fact, host a vaudeville show in my Wonder Woman underpants. Photos were taken, and those photos were put on the internet.
In response to this, my mother dug through her family photos and produced a thing I did not know existed: photos of me in Wonder Woman underpants from when I was two.
Therefore, I clearly needed a blog about this.

We are eagerly accepting photo submissions of readers dressed as Wonder Woman.

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displaying our own erudtion, like a peacock attracting a mate

December 27, 2005

Today’s Word of the Day is:

apposite \AP-uh-zit\, adjective:
Being of striking appropriateness and relevance; very applicable; apt.

I rather enjoyed the sample usage of the word:

Suppose, for example, that in a theoretical physics seminar we were to explain a very technical concept in quantum field theory by comparing it to the concept of aporia in Derridean literary theory. Our audience of physicists would wonder, quite reasonably, what is the goal of such a metaphor–whether or not it is apposite–apart from displaying our own erudition.
–Alan D. Sokal and Jean Bricmont, [2]Fashionable Nonsense:
Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science

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