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Tara Jepsen is a writer and performer from San Francisco, California. Among her many performances, she has featured at the Porchlight storytelling series, the RADAR reading series at the downtown San Francisco public library, and at Litquake. She recently was chosen, with Beth Lisick, as one of five winners for the San Francisco MoMA’s “I Want You” collaboration with Tony Labat. She has short stories published in the anthologies Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache (Alyson Books) and It’s So You (ed. Michelle Tea, Seal Press, 2007). She toured extensively with seminal all-female cabaret Sister Spit’s Rambling Road Show in October and November of 2007, as well as summer 1997, fall 1998, and summer 1999. Her most recent short film, Diving for Pearls (co-written, directed and acted with Beth Lisick), won the “Most Innovative Short” award at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (2004) and was selected for the “Best of Newfest” screening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She co-curates and co-hosts San Francisco’s longest running queer open mic, K’vetsh (awarded “Best Open Mic” by the SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly), with Kirk Read. She recently completed a sold-out first run of her live stage show, written and performed with Beth Lisick, entitled Getting in on the Ground Floor and Staying There. Beth and Tara will take their show to Las Vegas in December 2008, and to New York City’s Dixon Place in February, 2009.

Weekend at Bernie’s/Palm Springs

We all know I’m enough of a dick to blog about my relationship with my dad so let’s just hope he doesn’t think to google me for another day. My dad drove from Calistoga to my place in Highland Park last week Thursday. He arrived at night. I immediately get tense around my dad. His [...]

Mow It Down

What do you think of people? I’m mostly into them. I went skateboarding a couple Saturdays ago. I set my ALARM. I drove to Long Beach to meet up with my friend Zedonk. We met up with two more dudes, Karl and Steve, in Cardiff. We bought iced coffee (Zedonk, a tall and handsome skater [...]

Venice Times

I ask again, and evermore, what is life? I don’t claim to have shopped enough or seen enough sunlight refracting off red rocks in remote desert locales from my seat in a hot spring lithium bath to know.
I do know that life feels DEEP lately. We lost Christopher Lee. Suicide.
I don’t want to [...]

The actual 25th

This is a day so far. In case you are not also me and don’t know my dad, he sings in a wild falsetto to himself as often as he remembers to, which is often. This is interrupted if he’s eating (though in the interest of his catalog-model, cycling-enthusiast figure, food is kept to a [...]

A Free Woman in Calistoga

This is the what. I flew up (all over myself) to Santa Rosa from LAX last night in a tiny plane. It departed late. A woman called her husband from the runway and detailed every way in which late airplanes are TERRIBLE. She seemed to really know her shit when it came to the vagaries [...]

Anina Bacon Visits, Class Convo Ensues

Good Morning and Good Choices!
Visiting Wisconsinite Anina Bacon sits on the couch before me, swaddled in about a billion blankets because it’s in the fifties and for the last century or so no one planned on the weather dipping below 80 degrees when they built these houses. Okay!
Anina made the choice with regard to [...]

A Saturday in My Life

Is weather in a Mars and Venus relationship with a person’s hormones? Do the two rule my mental school like so many Type A teenagers with BMW’s? Wait were those the people who really ruled me…? It has been raining for a few days in Los Angeles. It bestows the blues upon a woman [...]

A Day Trip

How do women spend their days, if not tumbling across their Tempurpedics clad in nude hose? Well, some women journey about their home areas or farther afield to ride skateboards. Yesterday I saddled up my wonderful economy car and picked up a couple gals to hit Venice skating board park.
What is wonderful about Venice skatepark? [...]

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Bowl Sesh

You all know I usually spend my weekends in a swirling nest of fast cars, hot women and cocaine. Well, this was a holiday weekend, so I did things a little differently. Today I drove my white economy car out to Norco for a gal’s skateboarding bowl jam. I almost skipped it. I had a [...]

Now I am 40

Good Day. Did you know that a person gets older every day? They do. Owing to the progression of my personal days, I am now 40 years old. Nice!!
Following is a compendium of all the knowledge I’ve gained in my 40 years, broken into categories.
CLOTHING
1. I am passionate about my one pair of enormous sweatpants. [...]