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

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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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  • Some accomplishments
  • Who's on Top in 2006?
  • Goodbye 'Portal Shortall'
  • Elex Success!
  • Turning Away from Jackson's Breasts for a Moment.....
  • The Politics of Searching...
  • Photos and Video -- Halloween 2006 in Los Angeles
  • Halloweens I Have Known
  • You Haven't Lived Until You've Seen a Very Pregnan...
  • That's Right, I'm Very Knowledgeable About Purses ...
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  • 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:
    5.26.2005
    "These are some giant pants..."

    One of the most interesting things about being on TV for a few minutes during a morning news program is that a blogger gal named Carrie (who I haven't met) saw me and recognized me. She wrote:
      This morning, while watching good morning america, I swore I saw Jess from poprocks.com.

    Seriously, my own mother almost missed my momentary morning-television appearance, but bloggers nationwide were recognizing me.

    If you're curious, you can go and watch the video of this segment.

    "We're Sexy F#cking Outlaws"

    SFist interviewed me today about our She Said, She Said radio show, and here's the piece they published about us.

    That's all well and good, but I'm still trying to get over the sting of Eve (from SFist) trying to steal my boyfriend last week.

    5.20.2005
    "You're hired!" as an "Apprentice" Stalker...

    So, we were in New York and my work friends invited me to attend "The Apprentice" finale and the after-party at *ahem* Planet Hollywood. I had so much fun running around with Chris and meeting/stalking Apprentices. I met Kendra and Tana and Raj and Bill
    and tana and meGeorge and Carolyn. See all of our photos. It was surprising how easily Chris convinced me to kiss Bren. Omarosa sure can dance... but this photo of Danny may be the funniest. I even met Sugar Ray Leonard. You can tell that we're all BFF. Of course, the best part of the evening is that I got to have dinner with Jeff, Lee, Brett, and Lance beforehand at 5 Ninth in the Meatpacking District. Sure, I enjoy the presence of people from TV, but I enjoy the presence of my friends way more.

    5.16.2005
    Jess and The City

    I'm in New York City for the week to meet with ABC News for work. Bocce and August and I flew in on Saturday and stayed at Mindy and Erik's place on the way Upper West Side near Columbia. (I think it's called Morning Side Heights?) We saw a teeny tiny baby squirrel in the park. We went to Erik's architecture school year-end party and then went to the East Village to meet Lee, Brett, Will, Daniel, and Jeff. On Sunday we packed up Mindy's car, so that she could leave for Carnegie-Mellon, and then we went to Lee's place in the Lower East Side (which is confusingly layed-out and furnished exactly like his old apartment in SOMA), and we drank a jug of red wine. Then we travelled to Park Slope, Brooklyn to Jeff and Daniel and Lance's compound where we sat at the silver table in their backyard garden and grilled steaks and drank Rasberry Lambic and more wine. Bocce humped Odie (Lance and Mark's dog) who is male and part Collie and much larger and was completely indifferent to her advances.

    This morning, August and Bocce and I took the F train to Coney Island where we saw Astroland and The Wonder Wheel and the Cyclone, and a clam bar. Bocce didn't want to go on any of the rides. August ate two hot dogs from Nathan's with sourkraut and onions, and I had cheese fries with ketchup.

    Now we're about to head to the Paramount Hotel on 46th Street, which I stayed at in 2001 when I was travelling for Microsoft to meet with Viacom to discuss interactive music television projects we were working on for UltimateTV. They have a pretty interestingly-designed lobby, and they allow small dogs.

    On Wednesday I'm going with my work peeps -- Dave, Jen, Heather, and Arleen to the Good Morning America show, but we don't know what the topic is yet.


    She certainly has some crazy mixed-up: