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Meg and Jen want you to win Boozes of the World

May 30, 2008

My co-host Meg and me at Wednesday’s Geography Bee. As always, more extensive coverage at ChelseaMindGames.com.

Video from Pete’s Candy Store, May 19th

May 30, 2008

Featuring Jen Dziura coming out against leggings, Becky Yamamoto appearing as the character “Fuktard,” and sets from Alex Grubard, Mark Normand, and Giulia Rozzi.

On Manhattan Avenue

May 30, 2008

Thanks to Mikey for the pic!

I have a small role in a short film

May 27, 2008

Here are some lovely screenshots from “Cesar Salad”:

None of my actual lines made it into the final product. But I do look nice as “Brunette Ziegfeld Girl.” Go here to watch.

Today’s Poll

May 27, 2008

A few astute readers noticed that my last poll was missing some important options. This has been corrected.

This blog needs more:

 

• Pandas
• Legwarmers
• Gerunds
• Cat Photos
• Sarcasm

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Free vote poll

what professional spelling bee hosts wear to work

May 27, 2008

Yes, those are bee-striped legwarmers. Worn with a velvet cocktail dress and Steve Madden peep-toe pumps.

Here is the provenance of the bee-striped legwarmers.

I’m second from the right oh and also I’m a girl

May 26, 2008

Comedian Cody Hess did my show a few weeks ago, so when he asked if I would debate in his “Destroyer Society for Literary Debate and Pre-Game” this past Friday, I said yes. Upon arriving, I was informed that I would need to wear a mustache. Here is a photo of me among this esteemed group. We debated “Dogs versus Cats.”

Making the world “safe” for children makes it autocratic, facile, and cultureless for adults

May 24, 2008

Ha! The cops in my hometown of Virginia Beach have confiscated Abercrombie and Fitch ads from the mall and charged the store manager with obscenity! (Thanks to Kenny for the link).

Here is a (rather unflattering, but I daresay this fiasco is rather more unflattering for the ass-backwards evangelical mini-theocracy of Virginia Beach that the twin miracles of education and hard work allowed me to escape at the age of seventeen) picture of me in front of one of that very same mall’s “no swearing” signs:

  

Please Take the Jenisfamous Poll

May 23, 2008

A new Jenisfamous.com is coming in June! (This current site was made by me in 2004, using my mad web skillz from 1998). And thus, I am taking a poll, asking what you would like to see on the new and improved Jenisfamous.com….

What would you like to see more of on Jenisfamous.com?

 

1. Written humor pieces
2. Standup comedy videos
3. Videos in which Jen talks to the camera
4. Posts about social and political issues
5. Posts about grammar and other nerdiness
6. Posts about Jen’s life and adventures about town
7. Photos of Jen
8. Beauty tips and other how-to articles
9. Links to funny stuff on other sites

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I am all over the effing internet

May 20, 2008

I won an honorable mention in a make-up-your-own-racist-stereotype (I picked on the Poles, because “Dziura” is, you know, Polish) blog contest run by someone I used to go out with. You’d think I could’ve done better, you know?

I just discovered a nice review of my blog in a blog directory. I shall now blush. This review is also a little blushworthy, in a slightly NSFW way.

Several readers have brought to my attention that I am currently appearing in a campaign advertising bagels, and that this campaign has made its way to Bedford Avenue. This is true.

Monday Evening Stand-Up at Pete’s: May 5th video

May 20, 2008

Starring Sean Donnelly, Cody Hess, Taylor Williamson, Scout Durwood, and Duncan Wilder Johnson.

p.s. – Don’t forget the Chelsea Market Vocabulary Tournament tomorrow! Featuring the musical virtuosity of Adira Amram.

Obamarama: lefties on the left

May 19, 2008

I just noticed, in this rather poignant photo of Barack Obama autographing his book for an old woman who is holding his other hand, that Obama appears to be left-handed. So I googled, and discovered that Obama and McCain are both left-handed, and that people are making a way bigger deal about Obama’s left-handedness than seems needed.

“Lefties For Obama” has informed me that James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and Bill Clinton were all left-handed.

As a high school student too young to vote, I once campaigned for Bill Clinton (by standing on a street corner with the rest of the Cox High School Young Democrats waving signs to all the passing cars), and thought it hilarious when our club president suggested that, as liberals, we all treat the cars to a “left-hand wave.”

This Week’s Shows: Come One, Come All

May 18, 2008

MONDAY

Pete’s Monday Evening Stand-Up
Monday, May 19th

Pete’s Candy Store, 709 Lorimer St. in Williamsburg

7:30pm
Free show, free candy

Starring Mark Normand, Lucas Held, Giulia Rozzi, Alex Grubard, and Becky Yamamoto. Hosted by Jennifer Dziura. As appears on Brooklyn Cable Access TV!

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WEDNESDAY

Chelsea Mind Games: Vocabulary Tournament
Wednesday, May 21st

• Musical Guest Adira Amram 6:30
• Vocabulary Tournament (open to first 20 signups) 7:30
• Dorothy Von Irony’s Hour of Comic Literature and Literary Comedy 9pm

The Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave bet. 15th/16th
(in the main area, about halfway back – just walk in the front door and keep going til you hit it)

See photos and videos of previous Chelsea Mind Games.

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SATURDAYOur first-ever spelling bee in MANHATTAN!

The New York City Spelling Bee
Saturday, May 24th 8pm

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby St in Soho
$10 admission (to compete or to watch)
Free popcorn, cash bar
nycbee.com

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If anyone comes to all three shows, I will give you a prize. Seriously, I should make up punch cards, like at the coffee shop. Seriously, anyone who comes to all three shows gets a signed copy of The Idiot’s Guide to Jokes. And also gets to meet the small crowd of smart single people who tend to congregate around vocabulary and spelling events.

new Jenisfamous coming soon

May 18, 2008

Due to the ministrations of my web designer, working nights in Buenos Aires…

New Manhattan Spelling Bee in The Villager

May 16, 2008

Look, we’re in The Villager!

Co-hosts bobbyblue and Jennifer Dziura have now brought the logophilia to the great isle of Manhattan, where the Bee occurs the third Saturday of each month.

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