yesterday andy and i went to wonderville to help celebrate their 5th birthday! in this middle school standardized test essay, i will talk more about what that means and also close with a call to action related to a new show i'm doing this month.
here's a BeReal (rhymes with "cereal") crop of us on the way to wonderville. i had to take off most of my rings because my period is due soon so i'm retaining about half a hudson river's worth of water. you asked!
wonderville is an all-indie arcade bar in brooklyn that hosts a wide variety events almost, if not actually, every single day. and the fact that every game is indie means that the artists and developers have room to do really cool shit with the medium. my favorites there in the current rotation are Hair Nah, Icarus Proudbottom’s Typing Partylike, and this cake game that i gotta go back [foreshadowing] to catch the name of:
you don't know how bad i want to eat a cake that looks exactly like this. like my uterus is quivering right now thinking about it. you asked!
wonderville was opened by our friends mark and stephanie, who have been involved in so many cool spaces in the scene over the past decade or so. if you had any hope of running or experiencing diy spaces in a world plagued by viruses like covid or corporate real estate, you should absolutely follow their work.
here they are, absolute angels, on stage as we all gave a toast to 5 years.
it's a special scene that i'm proud to be a part of, and whenever i make it out there i always get to reconnect with folks i've not seen offline in forever - like jenn de la vega, who catered the event.
there were too many people (a good problem) to take a photo of the spread, but it looked exactly like this but way better and fewer dolphins and less being in a boat or sub underwater
jenn contributed to the first livelaughconf that i put together to celebrate launching this blog almost 4 years ago. i should do another one, yeah?
POV, you're peeing (legally) at wonderville after chugging a shirley temple
if you're in the nyc area and looking for an excuse to check out wonderville, you should just check it out whenever you feel like it and/or...
you can come to my and jamie brew's next robot karaoke cage-match at wonderville on may 27th at 7pm!
this will be our second time co-hosting this on wonderville's amazing and unique polygonal stage! our last show generated their 2nd most viral tiktok - in that you can watch me singing "like a prayer" with lyrics coming from stack overflow posts.
it's probably the most responsible way to spend your memorial day evening, so i hope to see some of you there. if you thought karaoke was hard or bad, wait until you see how we use technology to make it even harder and worse!
xoxo jenn
in the girly world of working on projects, being depressed, and blogging, you often can only pick two of those - and my brain *loves* to work on projects and be depressed. it's been a busy april, but first a word from our sponsor: pumagreg.
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last month i said i'd be experimenting with more sculptural candles and that's exactly what i did this weekend. and because i had also recently finished my three.js journey certificate, i figured that starting this weekend's session by rendering the candle on the web first would be a good practice and a cool way to show off the candle i had floating in my mind for weeks.
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as a former professional satirist, i know that you can always make someone fall for something. as april fools day approaches us again, i'd like to share what i believe was the only good april fools joke ever: heavy table's 'what's in prince's fridge'. click that right now, read it, and then come back. heavy table is a reader-sponsored culinary online zine based in prince's home zone, minneapolis and they are absolute legends for this one.
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i haven't posted a candle-making blog since june 2022](/posts/candle-making-cento/) but i haven't stopped making them. i guess i just forgot to blog about them, but i'm pretty sure i took photos each time. let's catch up on my candle-making adventures.
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about a year and a half ago i turned an eyeshadow palette into watercolors and it really was one of the most fun watercolor projects i've done. a couple of weeks ago, i finally cleared a space and weekend to make another palette.
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i was just watching emma chamberlain tell some childhood stories and early into it she talked about under-the-table selling stickers and erasers to kids when she was a little kid and it feeling drug-dealery. i basically had the same experience.
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there are only 2 good things about being a blogger:
1. the piles of money that come in every single week from Big Blog Enterprises 2. the pleasant surprise that you wrote and totally forgot about your resolutions and intentions from the year prior
hello, fellow billionaires. i'm jenn schiffer and this is my **2024 blog**, a lot has changed since my 2023 post.
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10 years ago i was working as a senior front-end engineer at the nba making way too little money for what they had me doing and writing extremely niche web development satire as a hobby with my coworker – normal 20-something lady in tech things. this was last time i ever remember being truly bored, which was the big driver behind me writing things on an invite-only blogging platform (medium the dot com in its infancy) that i knew were very funny and therefore would piss off a certain demographic.
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i know how to code and i'm pretty good at it, but it's not something i do for my full-time job anymore - this is great for me, honestly. so, obviously, i do not write as much code as i *used* to, *but* i still made a lot of interesting things this year. here is **my 2023 in code**.
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