POPROCKS.COM
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...

September 13, 2005 Gavin Admits He Likes Us
Check this out: Our cute, hot mayor and #1 fan Gavin Newsom was caught on camera, and he admitted he liked the idea of having a pirate TV station in SF (Pirate Cat TV 13, of which I'm a founding member along with Monkey and Junglebook).

Watch this quick video clip (shot by Junglebook on Saturday at the Fulton Street Fair) where Gavin comes out of the closet as a Pirate Cat fan.

As if that's not enough magical multimedia surprise for you -- you should download this mash-up made by Pirate Cat Radio DJ The Rat. It's called "Bang On," and it mixes together "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" by Nancy Sinatra (which you may remember from the 'Kill Bill' soundtrack) with "Dream On" by Aerosmith and "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans.

I think it's hauntingly beautiful.

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posted by Jess Barron @ 11:29 PM
March 4, 2005 Gavin, Give Us a Call
We're doing the radio show tonight from 6-8p.m PST. Tune in online or at 87.9 on your FM dial in San Fran-silly. Tonight's topics will include tales of hook-ups on waterbeds, Martha Stewart and male fantasies about women's prisons, and songs that made young girls cry in 1986. Also, we're hoping Jackson from SFist will call in again and tell us more stuff that cracks us up. And we're still waiting for our call from mayor Gavin Newsom. C'mon, if he's phoning Paris Hilton, he damn well better call us. Gavin -- call us on the studio line tonight: 415.401.7393. We promise we'll still respect you in the morning.

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posted by Jess Barron @ 12:47 PM