About Jenna

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area where I am a Lady of Leisure. I am happily hitched to a super cute software engineer and I wrangle a small army of little girls that includes 2 children (Evelyn and Vivian) and two pugs (Ping and Lucy Furr). I grew up in a snooty little Connecticut town and escaped to Greenwich Village where I graduated from New York University in 1995 with a degree in classical archaeology and physical anthropology. I have worked as an archaeologist in Greece, a women's aviation museum curator, a bartender in New Orleans and NYC and graphic designer/web developer at NASA Headquarters and the FAA in Washington DC. It was in our nation's fair Capital that I met Andrew at a Man...or Astro-man? show. We fled soon after the current president dictator was elected appointed in 2001. Since then I have taken it upon myself to breed little feminists.

Though I am now a slackass housewife by trade, I keep busy by sewing little dresses, camping in our vintage 1969 Airstream trailer, silkscreening, painting, making embroidery pin-up girl portraits, knitting, fixing things around the house while my husband drinks beer, volunteering for pug rescue, building things with power tools, taking occasional flying lessons and decorating our little Yosemite cabin (we are leaning towards "Bavarian Hillbilly" and "Spaghetti Western" as themes.) I watch a lot of Film Noir, Westerns, Psychotronic movies and Buster Keaton silents. My favorite authors are Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ambrose Bierce and James Ellroy. I love vintage clothes, hot jazz, Victorian weirdness, outsider art and Tom Waits. We don't watch a lot of TV. It just isn't very good.

Here are some pictures of me with various hair colors, little girls and pugs

Why Glamarama?

Glamarama was a very short lived girly 'zine I started in 1998, along the lines of "Princess" and Lynn Peril's "Mystery Date". It was so short lived that the first issue never made it down the street to the copy shop. I did manage to do a one shot Glamarama web zine, but there is something so much more legit about copying and stapling that I don't really count it. Maybe its the intoxicating smell of xerox toner. But the domain name hangs around. I can also be found at tartlette.com where I peddle my crafty wares and little girl's dresses.