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The online home of Jess Barron

Web content and community expert, writer, editor, blogger, and internet video producer.
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In 2004, a guy who I don't know named Jeremy Abbate saw my website and wrote a song called "I Wanna Be As Cool As Jessica Barron." It still amuses me. Here's the mp3 and here are the lyrics.

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See how this site looked in 1998
Poprocks.com screenshot from early 1998
and how the place looked in 2000.
Poprocks.com from June 2000
Yahoo counted me as a "cool person" from 1997-2001. How far have I fallen?!
Yahoo counted me among the "Cool People" in 1997-1998.
The internets have come a long way, baby...

January 8, 2005 New Year's Eve Lessons and Secrets and Photos are Revealed
"So Michael please keep the tape rolling
Boys keep strumming those guitars
We need a record of our failures
Yes we must document our love
. . . . .
It's not a movie
No private screening
This method acting
Well I call it living
"
--Bright Eyes "Method Acting"

Happy fucking New Year! Last week, I returned from visiting my mom and family members in Boston, and decided to throw a big, big New Year's Eve bash.
It's a good thing that my digital camera survived, because I don't really remember much of what happened. For instance, I don't have any recollection of shots like this or this or (god forbid!) this being taken. (Thanks Jen and Deneb, for returning some of my missing memories... Waitasecond! You can have those back!!)

My New Year's resolution: "To drink less?" you respond. Naaaaaaaw! To update my blog and post all those photos everyone keeps asking about.

So, with that in mind, I offer you (in reverse chronological order):
New Year's Eve

Los Angeles (November 2004)
London (November 2004)
2004 U.S. Presidential Election (inside Yahoo! newsroom) (November 2004)
Halloween 2004
Oregon beach house weekend (October 2004)
Simone and David's wedding at Fairytale Land in Oakland (August 2004)

Just so you know, this New Year's Eve I did learn a few things:
  • You can never have enough champagne (15 bottles?!) nor enough booty music on your iPod
  • If even the sweetest party guest should happen to get her hand on a riding crop -- she is destined to run amock, overdosing on the power.

  • When planning to drink heavily, be sure to wear clothing that offers appropriate coverage with little or no assistance, otherwise your friends will all show you their nipples and tease you mercilessly. (It's like didn't I learn anything from Tara Reid's red carpet breast exposure...) Also, everyone has those pesky digital cameras.
  • At only $6.99, the New Year's Eve Party Kit is a phenomenal value for all the fun you're gonna have.

    And yes, Will Weitzman allegedly captured a photo with my nipple visible. Alright, whatever. I'm not really embarassed.

    posted by Jess Barron @ 9:16 AM