Dangerous Candy
she's precocious

...But then again, she's weird, and she knows a lot of bad people.


"I want to be
the girl with
the most URLs."

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Jess Barron
Los Angeles, California

I do web stuff

thoughts on the past and future of online journalism

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e a r c a n d y :

1. 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". Another person in New York emailed the MP3 to me in Nov. 2004. The narcissist in me loves the lyrics and the song itself is pretty darn catchy. Don't you think?

2. In 2005 I had a weekly radio show on Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 FM in San Francisco from 6-8p.m. on Friday nights. You can listen online from anywhere in the world. Or just check out our podcast.

3. Also, listen to my LAUNCHcast station

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  • 3 Days Inside the Houston Astrodome
  • Getting Into The Hot Zone
  • Gavin Admits He Likes Us
  • 22 Hours in Los Angeles, 2 Hours in a Karaoke Boot...
  • Brides, Bachelorettes, and my Scorching Hot Social...
  • Peter Jennings Was My Favorite Broadcast Journalis...
  • Anyone Have Any Good Lawyer Jokes?
  • A Healthy 'Self'-Interest?
  • I'm very worried about dragons...
  • The Phoenix from the Flames...
  • New Year's Eve 2005 pics

    Mici's pics from the Pirate Cat Party (12/04/04)

    Los Angeles (11/27/04)

    2004 U.S. Presidential Election (inside Yahoo! newsroom) (11/02/04)

    London (11/15/04)

    Allyson's photos from our London trip (11/22/04)

    Halloween 2004

    Oregon beach house weekend for Esther's birthday (10/22/04)

    Simone and David's wedding at Fairytale Land in Oakland(08/01/04)

    Owen's 30th birthday (05/01/04)

    Mirror Project Gallery, "The Make-up Mirror"

    Daniel's birthday suprise party (04/23/04)

    live band karaoke at El Rio (04/10/04)

    August's closing party at Ebb Tide(02/27/04)

    valentine's day weekend in NYC(02/16/04)

    nice day, new convertible(02/08/04)

    nostalgia for the present (02/02/04)

    my 30th birthday(01/04)

    August's art opening at Ebb Tide (01/03/04)

    Jeff's 30th birthday (12/20/03)

    pics from Yahoo Holiday Party 2003 with The Flaming Lips (12/12/03)

    Nathan's band, the cables(11/15/03)

    pics from Burning Man 2003(09/03)

    photos from Burning Man 2002 (09/17/02)

    pics from Allyson's wedding(09/03)

    Cali Convertible Adventures with Nemesis(ter)(07/03)

    Allyson's bachelorette party(07/04/03)

    Dogpatch Sunrise - There are some visual benefits to waking up at 6a.m. when you live by the San Francisco Bay. (04/11/03)

    Kicking it with Frank the KJ (04/05/03)

    Bad Pioneer weekend - riding horses in Hollywood and swimming with dolphins in Malibu (02/14/03)

    Dat Ass - hip-hop and ghetto tech party, SF, CA (01/25/03)

    Jeno spins at House Plant - Oakland, CA (01/17/03)

    Halloween Costumes at Yahoo! and in the Castro (10/31/02)

    pics from Portland (10/26/03)

    the story I told at Fray Day 6 in SF (09/23/02)

    What is YOUR Anti-Drug? (09/16/02)

    ugly kids (08/19/02)

    Save poprocks.com

    Picking Blackberries (07/12/02)

    she said, she said (06/28/02)

    The Phoenix Festival (07/10/02)

    Photos from my SXSW road-trip (05/01/02)

    off-site:
    Esther

    Allyson

    Lana

    Mary

    Jen

    Leanne

    Fruitcake Brigade

    Sarah

    re-runs:

    love letter to los angeles (11/09/01)

    pics from Scuba with Migual Migs (08/11/01)

    robots and warehouses in my SF neighborhood (06/19/01)

    My pics from Burning Man 2001

    My pics from Burning Man 2000

    My journal from Burning Man '99

    Meeting Monica Lewinsky (11/15/99)

    What was Diane Sawyer really like? (11/17/95)

    Turkish Delights (09/08/95)

    The Scatman in Greece's Modern Ruins (08/26/95)

    Caught in a Mosh (10/94)

    Montreal Stripped Down (08/01/94)

    sophomore year spring break in Russia (04/08/94)

    conversationskill: a real life mellow-drama of Vassar students abroad in Russia (04/08/94)

    pics from the Russia trip (04/08/94)

    sophomore year road-trip to Mardi Gras (02/12/94)

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    Take a Bite of Me:
    9.16.2005
    What About Burning Man?

    Dear readers, some of you think it's a serious oversight that I have not posted about Burning Man yet. "Was it not good this year?" you have asked me. No, it's not that at all, it's just that I've been pretty overwhelmed since I've returned. When I got back from Burning Man, we were very much in the midst of covering hurricane Katrina pretty hardcore. It was news, news, news for work. Heather and Allyson were handling the brunt of it, but I had just over 2,000 work emails to sift through while more were still piling up on top of them. I've been working 10-12 hours every day, and I'm just about almost dug-out. (Tomorrow morning I'm flying to Portland for Selena's wedding and then next week to Vail for Ellen's wedding.)

    Burning Man was freaking awesome. Out of the past six that I've gone to (the first being 1999), this one was, by far, my favorite of all. Campmates got along, weather was pretty decent (except for Monday which was a raging windstorm that destroyed our shade structure), and my art project was a success.

    This year I have *4* sets of Burning Man photos posted on flickr:
  • Regular ole Burning Man 2005 set
  • Barbie Does Burning Man
  • The re-education of Dicky
  • Psychiatric Help Booth (my art project!)

    Spending hours talking to people inside my psychiatric help booth each day was truly amazing. A lot of people out there just needed to talk. Somehow everyone expects in their mind that Burning Man is this big party where everyone is non-stop ecstatic -- but there really are a lot of people who get to the playa and begin dealing with issues of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. At Burning Man in 2000, I was dealing with a lot of these types of issues myself. There were also people whose boyfriends or girlfriends had dumped them at the event, people who were having marriage difficulties, people who felt like their campmates didn't like them, people who were having problems meeting new friends. I will write a bit more about this whole experience soon. I just need a bit more time to process it.

    My two favorite art projects at Burning Man this year were:
  • Dance, Dance Immolation (It was the video game Dance, Dance Revolution but the players hafta wear these special proxsuits because if they mess up their moves, fire cannons shoot directly at them!)
  • The DICKY Box (A guy named Christian "Dicky" Davies locked himself in a 10' by 10' plexiglass box for 7 full days).


  • She certainly has some crazy mixed-up: