The latest Google search to bring a reader to Project Janna is:

jannas breasts

The things that interests me about this is the inefficiency of the search strategy. It stands to reason that the searcher is looking for a specific Janna, but the search criteria is very generalized. Moreover, if I were going to post topless photos of myself on the internet (don’t hold your breath), I would come up with a way racier title. Unless, of course, I was posting on a pregnancy blog, like the person with the #1 hit. But how many people look for information about pregnant Jannas’ breasts?

Other searches of note:

i hella heart oakland
beautiful hippies
janna sucks (I have the #1 hit for this one. Lovely.)

My favorite, which complements “kinkos evil” well:

myspace snob

Lots of people seem to find this site by Googling “Janna,” so I decided to make Project Janna a clearinghouse of sorts. Check out this new page. Jannas are hot.

I’ve been posting about shopping a lot lately, partly due to my recent need to dress “professionally,” and partly due to my being girly. I apologize to those who are uninterested in said topic and come here solely to Blogicize the Revolution or look for Janna Svenson.

I was planning on holding off on the retail posts, until I came across The Stupidest Marketing Scheme Ever while at Macy’s the other day. I applied the stealth photography skills I learned after getting busted at Target last summer, and got this shot:

This makes me think of a conversation that would go like this:

Consumer A: Like Ohmigod you’re wearing DKNYs!
Consumer B: I know, right? Like, we could totally be BFFs!

On the other hand, I see an excellent dissertation topic:

Denim and Destiny: the juxtaposition of friendship and fashion in a world gone utterly mad

I have a new obsession, and that obsession is Flickr. I uploaded a couple of photos last week to test the waters, and then became intrigued with all the fun features. Groups - yay! Contacts - way cool! Tags! Sets! Notes! Comments! Eeeeeeeeeeee! The only drawback is that they don’t call blogging directly from Flickr “Flogging.”

Soon after I found this additional way for the Internet to suck away my time, I discovered that I had reached my upload limit for the month. Faced with the maddening prospect of allowing 5,000 photos to languish on my hard drive until the halfway decent ones could be transferred piecemeal to their rightful home at Flickr, I bought a “Pro” account. That’s right - for $25 yearly Flickr will pad your ego with a fancy title, even if you know nothing about photography and carry around a basic point-and-shoot camera. What’s not to love about this fabulous site?

In related news, Flickr has shaken up the Project Janna design a bit. A recently uploaded photo now appears in the sidebar - if you click on it, you’ll go to my Flickr page. This is an experiment that will end if it distracts too much from the photo in the leading post. If you have an opinion on that, leave a comment.

Permanent changes include the deletion of the “Recent Posts” section of the sidebar, because it was mostly redundant to the first page anyway. Additionally, the Links have been moved to a page you can access at the top right, along with the Archives and About Page.

In a semipermanent sense, I had to remove the footer because it suddenly started appearing in the sidebar. I checked the code against the backup files, but couldn’t find the problem. I finally quit when I began to fear my brain melting down from seeing too many brackets. This is what I was talking about when I wrote that I shouldn’t be trusted with a website.

Enough rambling. To review (or introduce, for those who skip long paragraphs): look at my Flickr page, and complain in the comments if you don’t like the site tweaks. Oh yeah, and get a Flickr account. If you’re nice to me, I’ll add you as a contact.

From the Project Janna site stats:

When Microsoft employees are shunning Internet Explorer while on the job, you know we’re well into the era of Firefox. If you’re still using IE, click here for a very amusing list of reasons to make the switch.

If that doesn’t sway you, here’s one more: if people keep using IE to read this site, I’ll start using the Firefox redirect script from my old blog. Instead of my charm and wit, you’ll get an image of the Firefox fox attacking the IE e. Who wants that?

CLICK HERE TO GET FIREFOX NOW. If it takes longer than five minutes to download and install it, I’ll buy you a drink. Then we’ll look at pretty websites together. Websites that didn’t look pretty in Explorer because Microsoft thinks it’s above democratically agreed-upon international web standards.

Yup, you read that right. Claire and I happened upon this unlikely event at Mama Buzz the other day:

I assumed the occasion would involve mohawked, heavily pierced accordion-wielding individuals holding some sort of polka-ized Sex Pistols jam session. However, it turned out to be a lesson with Henri Ducharme, a music teacher so very hardcore that he is lifting his house off its foundation so he can build an accordion into his basement wall.

Claire and I didn’t have accordions, so we could only observe. However, what could have been a disadvantage became exotic and fun when we were designated “interlopers” during the introductions. My quasi-surreptitious filming added to the voyeur vibe as Henri taught the better equipped students a song called “Broken Cup” by Jason Webley. It was awesome to see them start with a simple melody, build on it, and end with beautiful 5-part harmony. I didn’t catch the final version on camera, but take my word for it: you’re sorry you missed it.

My favorite Oakland coffee shop, Mama Buzz, offers excellent iced coffee, a fun art-y atmosphere, health code-flouting grime, and paintings made with human blood:

Caption:

Helen and Winter
were the only ones privy to the arrival of
the dreaded Pelican of Baffin Island.

Zefrey Throwell
Human blood and watercolor on paper
22″x30″
$400

Aside from the grime, I love this place.