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scantily clad
can't be bad
earth friend jen
do it again!
Comment #1 Posted by: dave | March 19, 2008 10:01 PM
Didj,
thanks for filming jen and posting this lovely video! last summer we watched the cops harassing jen in meiners oaks and afterwards had an interesting chat with her. i've always wanted to interview jen for the post. she brings so much good energy to ojai. to me, she is ojai. just like tyler is ojai, the ojai post is ojai, the river flowing is ojai, the pink moment is ojai, the chime of the clock tower is ojai, the horses in front of coffee roastery this morning are ojai, the city council members are ojai, you, dear reader, are ojai, and I am ojai.
there's a song that michael franti sings and it goes something like: "all the freaky people make the beauty in the world." there used to be a lot more "freaky people" living in ojai (and by that I truly mean beautiful, creative, expressive, unique souls) who have probably moved on because of the high cost of living here. when I was a kid I used to see krishnamurti walking in town and I thought he was "freaky."
whenever I see jen roller blading or biking through town wearing her bushy thong and her pasties, I just smile and give thanks. thanks didj. thanks jen.
Comment #2 Posted by: Leslie | March 19, 2008 11:18 PM
Mike,
Just wondering if youre planning to devote equal time in the filming and promoting of, say, Devorah (w/pasties?)?
Comment #3 Posted by: take a cold shower | March 20, 2008 08:00 AM
I can't believe I'm blogging again but this is ridicoulous,this woman is not a crusader she is a very disturbed person screaming for attention.I have had the chance to see this crackpot for her true colors.My sleazy neighbor had her at his property for "motivation" to build on his neighborhood eyesore.I came home one night to her screaming at the top of her lungs and throwing bottles at peoples cars.Another instance she disturbed a show I was playing by starting a fight with a young lady in the bar.There are also other people who have tried to give her space on their land who could probably tell you more if they weren't embarassed to have been involved with the"earth friend".You would care more if you had children witnessing her desparate pleas for help by exposing herself.At most this person should get some help but as a community the most we should do is ignore and marginalize this crackpot.Mike it doesnot surprise me that you have given her a forum here if this is what I can expect from this post I will definetely spend my web time elsewhere.
Comment #4 Posted by: Mario | March 20, 2008 08:31 AM
.."if this is what I can expect from this post I will definetely spend my web time elsewhere."
No offense, Mario, but that just might be the fastest wearing out of a welcome that I have ever witnessed.
None of us agrees 100% with every post written here. But, simply put, there are ways of expressing a dissenting view that are MUCH better than others, if you catch my drift...
But interesting contrarian opinion about someone who is getting a lot of great local press these days...
Comment #5 Posted by: LTOR | March 20, 2008 08:48 AM
Your right my bad
Comment #6 Posted by: mario | March 20, 2008 09:09 AM
Jeez Mario, tell us what you really think. Yeah she's a crackpot and she might just be seeking attention, but it's her right to do so.
Comment #7 Posted by: spk | March 20, 2008 09:58 AM
Why is it that those labelling others as disturbed are the ones who seem most disturbed about it?
Comment #8 Posted by: Anonymous | March 20, 2008 01:33 PM
Hey! Many of my favorite people are "Crackpots".
Comment #9 Posted by: spk | March 20, 2008 02:00 PM
If EFG freaks you out then you better stay out of Holland. check this story
Comment #10 Posted by: mike DiDj | March 20, 2008 09:44 PM
I just find that her message gets lost in her unnecessary aggression towards innocent bystanders (witnessed her throw a beautiful, delicious pizza at a counter person of local deli for its inadequacy, yell at passersby not even driving the ever-offensive car, just trying to walk by, etc.)-- isnt peace and compassion what she's preaching here?
i dont care what she wears, (liberation's more than ok by me), just some sense of consistency would make her message get there. she should (and we all should, myself included) work on that.
Comment #11 Posted by: Anonymous | March 20, 2008 10:15 PM
Hey Mario,
Maybe we're neighbors! I've got EFJ currently living in my hood bringing like attention to a like neighborhood eyesoar.
Really, to even post this video...it's as bad as the corporate television news. Is this really important or will you all go into how it's a reflection of the abuse of "Civil Liberties" and freedom of speech?
Comment #12 Posted by: Kate | March 20, 2008 10:34 PM
some of you have it right this girl is bad news
Comment #13 Posted by: anyone | March 21, 2008 04:44 AM
I'd like to know what a social artist is and does it pay well?
Comment #14 Posted by: bill fusion | March 21, 2008 06:02 AM
The one impression I am left with after watching the vid is that Jen seems awfully mad for a self-professed peace-loving person.
Comment #15 Posted by: LS | March 21, 2008 07:48 AM
Yep, this community would be better off without her.
I wish she'd just go.
I can't stand having to avert my eyes to avoid seeing her.
Who does she think she is saying things to people just walking or driving by?
She should be in an institution.
Get her off the street.
Can't the police arrest her? Put her in jail?
NOT!
Listen to yourselves, people. Where's the Ojai love for the Earth Friend?
"Awfully mad"?
Is there nothing for a "peace loving person" to be mad about?
LS, Kate, Mario, "anyone", I am reminded of the old bit by Robert Klein from the '80s, who was surprised after a visit to Germany that he could not find anyone who would admit to having supported the Nazis during WWII. He summed it up:
"Hey, Schultzy, where were you between 1933 and 1945?"
Schultzy, flustered and shaking:
"I was at sie movies!"
Comment #16 Posted by: Anonymous | March 21, 2008 02:46 PM
uh, totally not getting the Nazi comparison...
Comment #17 Posted by: Anonymous | March 21, 2008 03:55 PM
Is showing love for the "earth friend" the same as sitting and listening to a Jesus Freak yap on and on about how you're going to hell and they're not?
Jen is a friggin' righteous crusader - in your face, asking for attention "look at me! I'm love, I'm helping you see the truth! I'm standidng up for the little guy!" I say put on your clothes, go make some money and give all you got to "feed the children" or "green Peace". Go to AFrica, go to New Orleans, give so you're really helping. Go dig a ditch, a well, or work at the salvation army. But Please get out of my face screaming at people how you love the world.
If showing "love for my earth friend" is watching her ruin a perfectly delicious meal cause she's sitting next to me with her tits hanging out, then I say Yep, I guess I'm not loving - I'm just a big bad person who was "at sie movies" while the maniac was slurping her food and rode off on her bike screaming at innocient, happy, loving people about their "hellavision".
Comment #18 Posted by: Give Me a Break! | March 21, 2008 04:08 PM
anonymous commenter from #16-
i'm all for protesting angrily, etc. but she's hurt many people who haven't even gone so far as driven a car or bought inorganic food. just as i said before, they've tried to serve her excellent organic food or get out of her way as she bikes down the street and they get yelled at or thrown at (food that is).
Comment #19 Posted by: Anonymous | March 21, 2008 04:27 PM
yea, but she wears pasties doing it...
Comment #20 Posted by: Anonymous | March 21, 2008 04:55 PM
Anon from Comment #16.
Sorry but I have to call a Godwin on you. You've killed this thread:
Comment #21 Posted by: spk | March 21, 2008 08:06 PM
Here is my main concern: If EJF throws brown rice at a person, perhaps as she rides in her santa/satan attire down the main drag, and an unsuspecting flock of pigeons consumes the somewhat dried organic brown rice some 7 hours or so later during a lull in traffic, and one of the pigeons explodes due to overconsumption of dried rice, has EJF, in fact, committed a crime against sentient beings and thus, should she be flogged sans or with pasties?
Comment #22 Posted by: kate | March 21, 2008 10:45 PM
I hereby dedicate this moment which is every moment to ending the carnage of this industrial society against the Earth mother ... this war of men against women and children and the native peoples ...
Comment #23 Posted by: Maja Teri | March 22, 2008 09:56 AM
Thank you Ojai Post (& of course Maja TerE....)
I mean anywhere else you'd have to pay to witness such asinine speak!!!
Comment #24 Posted by: biker Bob | March 22, 2008 11:47 AM
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
Comment #25 Posted by: George Orwell | March 23, 2008 10:43 AM
is eco-jane a gregarious animal?
Comment #26 Posted by: oak view otis | March 23, 2008 04:37 PM
It is not easy to explain to the lay mind the extremely intricate ramifications of a Hollywood picture organization… The chief executive throws out some statement of opinion and looks about him expectantly. This is the cue for the senior Yes-Man—or Vice-Yesser, as he is sometimes called--- and the junior Yes-Man. Only when all the Yes-Men have yessed, do the Nodders begin to function. They nod.
Comment #27 Posted by: P. G. Wodehouse | March 23, 2008 06:38 PM
your insight cuts like a knife p.g.. keep it coming!!
Comment #28 Posted by: Anonymous | March 23, 2008 08:00 PM
With all due respect, spk, even if #16 was an off-limits "Godwin", its still gets a chuckle, doesn't it? (Maybe that old routine was before your time?)
Seriously, that old joke is not about hardcore Nazi supporters who now try not to admit what they once were, but about all the good Germans who weren't particularly ideologically transfixed by the cause, but went along with their business, did what they were called on to do, and at the time, wished that those few people who protested it all would just shut up and go away, tone it down, be more reasonable, you know.
Hannah Arendt called it the "banality of evil."
Ward Churchill called them "little Eichmans." (Look what happened to him.)
Maybe it is not apt for our good-hearted people who have it in for the Earth Friend. Ultimately, each person will have to answer for him or herself what they think they'll be able to tell their grandkids about what they were doing in George W. Bush's America.
(Also, since when does "Godwin's Law" mean a thread is dead? That sounds like "spk's law".)
Comment #29 Posted by: Anonymous | March 24, 2008 03:40 PM
Usually a thread is dead if someone throws a Godwin, but it doesn't have to die. Just kidding around anyway.
Comment #30 Posted by: spk | March 24, 2008 04:06 PM
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Comment #31 Posted by: Admiral Hyman Rickover | March 24, 2008 05:16 PM
Tyler,
What about making Earth-Jen a Post author? She would provide a needed shot in the arm...
Comment #32 Posted by: Ventura John | March 25, 2008 12:57 PM
From Post #29: "Maybe [being likened to "little Eichmans"] is not apt for our good-hearted people who have it in for the Earth Friend. Ultimately, each person will have to answer for him or herself what they think they'll be able to tell their grandkids about what they were doing in George W. Bush's America."
Hey, no time like the present to plan for the future. (Remember that fable about the ant in winter?) I need some help, people. Best I can see, I spent the Bush years voting against Bush, telling everyone he's the worst President ever, supporting impeachment, protesting, writing letters, and trying to earn as little money as possible so that I wouldn't have to pay [much] tax to enable the war crimes.
All that accomplished diddly-squat. Worse, near the end, I was reduced to anonymous posts for fear that all my efforts failed, and I would be targeted for roundup in the new detention camps:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/010206detentioncamps.htm
At this point, I'm resigned to the worst President ever finishing out his term, and President McCain expanding the bombing.
I suppose I could try to mimic Earth Friend, but I would look terrible in pasties. And I'm not much for throwing rice at people (might get punched).
Help me out, someone. I need a better story for the little ones!
Comment #33 Posted by: Anonymous | March 25, 2008 01:20 PM
Where are you in this complex adaptive system called life?
1-conformity enforcer
2-diversity generator
3-inner-judge
4-resource shifter
5-inner group tournament player
Comment #34 Posted by: Howard Bloom | March 25, 2008 03:16 PM
6-life-r?
Comment #35 Posted by: El A | March 25, 2008 03:29 PM
You say "little Eichman," I say: One person's "little Eichman" COULD be another person's someone who doesn't like pasties or pizza thrown in their face.
Now, if a person happens to like youngish women parading in pasties, that's another thing...
This is good stuff for Ojai anyway. I mean, if some tourists see Earth Friend Jen parading in her pasties, that's a fun Ojai tale to tell back home. And if a tourist gets a pizza thrown in her or his face by a mad earth friend in pasties, that's an even better story. Kind of like how people flock to the gorilla exhibit at the LA Zoo to see if they or their friends get a turd thrown at them.
Comment #36 Posted by: Anonymous | March 25, 2008 04:53 PM
Kind of like how people flock to the gorilla exhibit at the LA Zoo to see if they or their friends get a turd thrown at them.
Not people who might care to think about the mind-numbingly sad reasons that such a magnificent life form has been reduced to hurling feces from within the confines of its prison. The same would go for Jen, I imagine. I think Jen's in pain, and I can't enjoy her performance because I don't think it brings her any respite.
Comment #37 Posted by: phalarope | March 25, 2008 05:49 PM
LA Zoo?
Isn't another name for that "Hollywood"?
Comment #38 Posted by: El A | March 25, 2008 06:01 PM
#33, just say you were "at zie movies"!
Or embellish a little, I mean "misspeak", like Hillary. How's this?
"Kids, let me tell you, you think times were bad. But Bush and Cheney were about to nuke Iran. They had targeted Tehran and three other cities. And get this - they were so ignorant on their geography that one of the cities they targeted was Balashikha, which is ... come on kids, where is it? Right next to Moscow, that's right! And instead of getting the coordinates right for Tehran, which they couldn't pronounce or spell, they had them set on Tianjin, in? That's right, China! It would have been the end of the world if those morons had gotten away with it. But I singlehandedly stopped them, by bringing by a bottle of Old No. 7. GW, old alkie that he was, jumped on that bottle like he was a baby and it had a nipple. I just kept the bottles coming, and GW never came out of the Situation Room until Obama had been sworn in. Cheney was fuming, he got so mad he up and had a heart attack and died. They replaced him with a sneering wax statue, and nobody ever noticed. Good thing too, because the obituaries would not have been kind to that man."
Comment #39 Posted by: Trying to Help | March 25, 2008 11:30 PM
I have seen this lady riding her bike and rollerblades around town. It is her right to do what she does. From what I have seen there has been no violence on her part and she is not breaking the law by any means. I don't think it is the best for young children to see a half-naked lady around town but the law does not forbid it. End of story. If someone doesn't believe in her outlook on life then thats there problem. She, just like everyone else, can think and say whatever she wants. Directly coming from the first Amendment of the United States Constitution- Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom to Peacefully Assemble. Tell you the truth--I wouldn't mind seeing more ladies riding around with pasties!
Comment #40 Posted by: Josh | April 4, 2008 09:10 PM
i'm not a resident of ojai, but i just read an article on her in today's la times (2008/04/26). has anyone considered the possibility that she might be acting out the early stages of mental illness, specifically schizophrenia? i could be wrong, but it sounds like that to me.
whitney
Comment #41 Posted by: d w quinn | April 26, 2008 08:26 AM
This all seems to come down to fear of the near nude body -- only very slightly less covered than you will find on any beach (up top but not on the bottom) -- and ENVY that someone else has a body as incredibly great as Jen's and can get attention you are not getting and maybe never could get no matter how hard you worked for it. Nonetheless, she definitely is seeking the attention for her cause of mother earth.
Her's is definitely use of the theatrical -- her costume, her antics -- to bring attention to a cause. And if you've ever hung around with a bunch of theatrical types, you will know they are loaded up with idiosyncrasies and eccentricities. In her case, though, it is a street performance. But the street is necessary for it as without the street, her performance would flop. It is use of the street that draw the attention because that makes her performance quite unique, making it stand out.
But people are not recognizing their own psychological issues with nudity. Jen isn't the one who is wacky about nudity. Geez, what is so terrible about the human body? It is the work of God! It is not to be feared or to be found repugnant or sick. Look at the nude body as a work of art -- just like you would if you were looking at it in an art museum. The fact that you have had it pounded into your head since childhood that nudity is bad does not mean that nudity is bad. That would only mean that there is widespread societal psychological issues with it -- and those should be addressed no differently that any psychological issue. Yes, society has a psychological issue. It seems people with this psychological issue would have Jen thrown in jail because she does not have that hangup. Now that's sick.
As for whether Jen gets any pleasure out of the attention she gets by dressing so skimpily -- hey, the majority of women out there are dressing for attention! And plenty of them are not wearing all that much. Jen has merely made herself the top attention-getter -- and that sure will generate jealousy.
If this were in nearly any European country, it would attract nearly no attention. But here in Sick America, it is a top national story. Not that's sick and I find it very disturbing that it is going on. I say treat of the sickos of Ojai -- keep Jen around.
Comment #42 Posted by: Kevin | April 27, 2008 07:41 AM
I won't address Jen's motivation or mental make-up. She has a lovely body and that certainly doesn't offend me. She has a right to express her views, talk about what's important to her. No problem there, but...
...she lost me when she pulled the stunt Easter Sunday at St. Thomas. To make such a scene at a place where you know you'll have no fear of reprisal - that doesn't take any balls at all. Quite cowardly, in fact.
I hadn't heard about throwing things at people, but now it is obvious has no real cause, just a need for attention. My advice, Jen - act respectfully if you want respect in return. And you had better remember that if you continue to assault people, sooner or later someone will defend themselves and/or have you arrested. Calm down, be cool. Assault is not "Ojai".
Comment #43 Posted by: Reason | April 28, 2008 10:44 AM
Here I sit broken-hearted, came to see pasties parted
Comment #44 Posted by: joe | May 4, 2008 08:44 PM
Harrassment is when someone who is meticulously following the law, however absurd, and is targeted anyway, not just by authorities, but by anyone at all. It seems to me that, far from being an outlaw of any kind, Jennifer Moss is nothing less than a beautiful, loving, caring person/citizen, celebrating the freedom it is claimed Americans have, but which we really don't. We should all be a lot more like her.
Jen Moss has done nothing that was even distasteful, much less illegal (not that I believe in the anti-nudity laws, but she has never violated them). The laws must not be used to uphold the anti-American prejudices that so many people hold! The only strange behavior I see is that of stupid straight-laced creeps who complain about nothing, unfairly harrass a person who is clearly much finer than themselves, and finally drive out of town one of the best people they ever had around, not to mention, BTW, our so-called, oft-cited but rarely seen, American Freedom and Justice. Shame on them!
Isn't it bizarre that those who express REAL American values (i.e. Freedom, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech, obedience to AND protection OF law, not to mention pure, youthful joy) the best, get suppressed the most?
Our Very Best Wishes to you Jen. Your wonderful smile (NTM the rest of you) will be sorely missed.
Comment #45 Posted by: Richard Savary | May 11, 2008 09:34 AM
I hadn't heard about Jen Moss making scenes, throwing things, etc., before reading more posts here. And I don't know if she ever really did those things. But I can say that, if she was being harrassed like I understand she was, I can't blame her for getting pissed-off about it. It is true that American society, despite loud claims to the contrary, is actually, in many cases, very unkind, unfair, unjust and hypocritical. I get pretty angry about institutionalized American lies, prejudice and viciousness myself!
But that aside, if JM is guilty of any LEGITIMATE violations, of the law, she can be cited for those. It seems to me that the only real complaints seem to be over her semi-nudity, and little else. Those other complaints seem to exist purely to legitimize that central, illegitimate one. Personally, I detest all laws against so-called "victimless crimes." There IS a victim, of course! It is the person who is shamelessly and unfairly harrassed, persecuted and sometimes even prosecuted. In this case it is this beautiful young woman, Jennifer Moss, who has not, by her semi-nudity at least, ever harmed anyone...
Does everyone understand that Jen's semi-nudity is actually no greater than can be seen on SoCal beaches any day, and is completely legal and acceptable under the law?
Does everyone understand that even full nudity can never do any harm to anyone?
Reaction against nudity is nothing more than backward, religion-based, Puritanical sqeamishness about sex, mindlessly enforced as law. I for one do not wish to be subject to anyone's religious (or other) prejudice!
Certainly, there can be no doubt that women have as much right to expose their breasts (or anything else) as men do. Would men like to be required to cover theirs?
We should simply give up these silly, twisted, hypocritical ideas, abolish all public nudity laws, and be done with them!
Comment #46 Posted by: Richard Savary | May 11, 2008 10:29 AM
LA Times, May 11th, 2008
Ojai's Pastie Lady leaves town
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/crime/la-me-pasties11-2008may11,0,5846609.story
After a year of biking downtown in pasties and a G-string, Jennifer Moss moves to Oregon, saying that she is tired of police harassment and that the town isn't environmentally conscious enough.
After a year of near-naked environmental activism in Ojai, the Pastie Lady has decided to hit the road for greener pastures.
Jennifer Moss, 32, caused community strife and gained local celebrity for the bike rides she took daily through the center of town, clad only in a hemp G-string and pasties.
But last week, she said she'd grown tired of police harassment in the Ventura County city of 8,000, and moved to Ashland, Ore.
She said the Ojai area was not the environmental Shangri-La she envisioned when she arrived a year ago. People use pesticides on crops, she said, and herbicides to get rid of bamboo on the Ventura River.
"Police attention was part of the reason I left," she said. "But the No. 1 reason I left Ojai is they are not conscious enough about the air, the soil and the water. Either you get it or you don't."
Moss, who calls herself "Earth Friend Jen," had touted various environmental causes during her streaks through downtown. She's passionate about water and thinks everyone should wear clothes made of hemp.
But she'd been ticketed for traffic violations several times and had twice been cited for public indecency. The Ventura County district attorney's office declined to prosecute either case, said Bruce Norris, Ojai's police chief.
"They just don't believe they can get a conviction on the nudity issue," Norris said. "There are constitutional issues about why a man can run around with no shirt on but a woman can't."
Moss said she was always within the law because her skimpy outfit covered key areas. In Ashland, she said, she will no longer have to worry.
The city's laws do not prohibit public nudity, which she recently confirmed during a visit to the local police station. Moss said she celebrated by stripping off all of her clothes and doing a headstand right outside the station. Then she rode naked through the center of Ashland, even though it was chilly out.
"This town is known for performance art. And even though it's not the status quo to ride around naked, it's been done before," Moss said. "So it was no big deal."
As word leaked out in Ojai about Moss' departure, almost everyone had an opinion.
"Good riddance!" one anonymous poster wrote on a local news website.
"I think it's terrible she's been driven out of town," wrote another.
For the police chief, her move will have one concrete benefit: Police will no longer have to waste time responding to complaints.
"I hope she finds real happiness up there," Norris said.
By Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Comment #47 Posted by: Friend of Earth Friend Jen | May 11, 2008 10:29 AM
People aren't one thing or another - as is so obvious in the previous posts. Jen is one of the "incredible pains in the arse of Ojai or wherever she happens to land, yet she's probably a loving caring person “doin’ her thing” and caring about people and life at the same time…It just depends on where she is and who she's with at the time...I was just talking to someone yesterday who really dug Jen for her ability to bring attention to her environmental causes and because "she's a performance artist" etc...
But hey, my dog's a performance artist every time that darling adorable little Bijon leaves her little "deposit of performance art" on the grass of Ojai and everywhere else she happens to want to display her talent! Now there is a real champion of natural causes and maintaining the environment - and she's naked to boot!
I’m surprised they haven’t hauled Lilly off to the nearest police station – but then Lilly is polite and doesn’t bark at people passing by – she just smiles, sends lots of love and reminds everyone how loving and beautiful the world can be when you’re just happy and doing “your own thing!”
Comment #48 Posted by: dvorah | May 11, 2008 11:06 AM
Hi Everyone! I'm back in town and it's gonna be hot today! I plan on going to the farmer's market and then skating through the Catholic Church parking lot while only wearing a hemp g-string and flower pasties. Yippee! Halelujah! Praise Jesus! I love Christ Consciousness. I have a friend that will be recording my sacred skate through the catholic crucifiers' gathering. Peace begins with THYSELF: Body, Spirit, Mind, and Soul. Please check out my videos on Eq.Tv.com under member Jennifer Moss. I love you all and wish each and everyone of you EXACTLY WHAT YOU WISH FOR OTHERS. May we all realize that what we give is what we get. May we all live by: Intent, Word, Action, Love, and Light. Truth+Love+Light=God=Life. Power to the Peaceful! We are the ones we've been waiting for! Only the Naked Truth sets US free!
Genuinely, Jennifer Moss
Comment #49 Posted by: Jennifer Moss | June 15, 2008 08:59 AM
By the way, I spell my moniker: EarthFriendJen. No spaces in between. I am updating my website . . . Also, I am becoming a traveling gypsy and while Ashland is my homebase, the world is my oyster and I may visit friends in Ojai at any given moment! Yippee! We are going to be in the 4th of July Parade in Ashland, Oregon and I'll only be wearing my hemp g-string . . . no pasties! It's all legal and peaceful. You can learn more by googing earthfriendjen and checking out my MySpace profile. Power to the Peaceful!
Comment #50 Posted by: Jennifer Moss | June 15, 2008 09:07 AM
and leave the poor christians alone!
Comment #51 Posted by: go away | June 15, 2008 09:13 AM
This is probably a spoof.
Comment #52 Posted by: Anonymous | June 15, 2008 09:17 AM
only naked juice??!!
Comment #53 Posted by: Anonymous | June 15, 2008 09:39 AM
Damn! The nuts are out already and it's not even a full moon until Wednesday. Must be the complications of Mercury Retro.
Comment #54 Posted by: Atascadero State Mental Patient | June 15, 2008 09:47 AM
In case this is not a spoof, it saddens me to see Jen's disregard for other people's rights by invading the sacred sanctuary of a church site.
On the other hand, I'm all for the Clothing Optional Bike Rides taking place around the world to protest our oil-dependent- car-culture and the war machine! Google World Naked Bike Rides. Here's a recent one:
World Naked Bike Ride
Washington, DC http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/washingtondc/index.htm
Comment #55 Posted by: Suza | June 15, 2008 09:51 AM
In cities around the world, people ride bikes naked to celebrate cycling and the human body. These rides demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and are a protest against car culture.
The third annual Washington DC ride took place this year on Saturday, June 7, 2008. It went past the White House and Capital Buildings!
The purpose of the ride through the United States capital is to promote the use of alternatives to oil (or in the negative, "to protest against oil dependency").
The organizers got clearance from the police.
They met with the DC Police, Capital Area Police, and National Park Service and got the required permits! They plan to ride again next year!
http://nakedwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Comment #56 Posted by: Paul Revere | June 15, 2008 10:03 AM
Frequently asked questions about riding or skating naked:
http://nakedwiki.org/index.php?title=Frequently_asked_questions#Isn.27t_riding_naked_uncomfortable.3F
Comment #57 Posted by: born naked | June 15, 2008 10:11 AM
Whatever! Just ride a bike to the goddamned store and pick up what you were going to pick up. If you have to go somewhere within 3 miles--ride a f--king bike! Don't drive. It's good for you, it's way cheaper, it doesn't pollute and it promotes community.
If you are some kind of exhibitionist ego freak, ride around naked, have a lovely time--but ride.
Comment #58 Posted by: naked or not | June 15, 2008 10:18 AM
it's not a spoof..... i just saw dear Jen in her customary garb out on Ojai Ave. ten minutes ago....
Comment #59 Posted by: eyewitness | June 15, 2008 01:11 PM
I did not go to the church but I had fun skating through Ojai and there were many friendly folks who said hello! Unfortunately, I find the smog unbearable in Ojai (on Sunday, June 15th, fathers day) . . . . it was much nicer yesterday at Venice beach. There is something in the air here . . . . all I know is that I honestly did not feel like even hanging out in town. It just felt dirty. All I want in life is some pure air, water, soil, and friends to LIVE WITH IN PERFECT HARMONY! "Mommy and Daddy ! Please STOP POISONING US FOR PROFIT!" Peace begins with THYSELF: Body, Mind, Spirit, and Soul.
Comment #60 Posted by: Jennifer Moss | June 15, 2008 02:13 PM
and leave the Ojai air we love!
Comment #61 Posted by: go away | June 15, 2008 02:18 PM
Hi Jen,
That is a lovely photo of you on your web site.
I have been wanting to thank you for the nice message you left on my answering machine on Earth Day. Thank you!!
If people only understood that clean air is our most important nutrient. If people made the connection between the air they breath and their medical bills, all those cars on Ojai Avenue would never be allowed to pollute our beautiful valley.
Love and blessings from Rosie and Tilie, who like that you don't eat pigs.
Namaste
Comment #62 Posted by: Suza | June 15, 2008 02:55 PM
The whole Earth is Sacred. Sex is Sacred. Sacred Church? THE EGO OF MAN BLINDS HIM FROM GOD'S SIMPLE NAKED TRUTH. The so called "Christians" and "Catholics Anonynmous" WOULD CRUCIFY JESUS HIMSELF, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND CALL HIM "THE DEVIL". I am Cosmic Catalyst with a simple message: Whatever you think, say, and do, is bearing fruit for you. Love or Hate. Only YOU CREATE YOUR FATE. The hateful hypocrites wouldn't know God if she flew through town NAKED. "Those who have eyes shall see and those who have ears shall here FOR I AM GOD COMPREHENDING ITSELF. AS WE ALL ARE. BUT YOU GOTTA KNOW IT TO SHOW IT, AND YOU GOTTA GIVE IT TO LIVE IT. IF THIS WORLD WANTS TO DISRESPECT ME AS IT HAS DISRESPECTED MY SACRED AND HOLY MOTHER EARTH, AND CALL ME A LOON, THEN I WEAR IT WITH A BADGE OF HONOR! In a nation of sheeple, ran by the village idiot, I AM PROUD TO BE THE TOWN FREAK, OR WHATEVER OR HOWEVER YOU MAY PERSONALLY IDENTIFY WITH ME! I ACTUALLY "REVEAL" (PUN INTEDNDED) A PART OF YOUR OWN SELF YOU DENY LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE. I LOVE YOU. MOTHER EARTH LOVES YOU. MAY YOU LEARN TO UNCONDITIONALLY LOVE YOURSELF TOO! Hallelujah! God bless US ALL forever! Grow UP sheeple! It's time to take responsibility for POISONING GOD'S GREEN EARTH FOR PROFIT. MOTHER GAIA IS HERE. I'm just EarthFriendJen, Mother Earth's little helper. I LOVE CHILDREN AND ANIMALS, AND PURE LIFE FORCE! Some people say, "What would the children think? This is what they are thinking, "I want to run around naked and free too!" Original Innocence! and also, "Mommy and Daddy, please STOP POISONING US FOR PROFIT!" Pesticides are POISON. CAUTION: "Progress" IS DEADLY. Children, beware of the "ADULTS" THEY ARE ADDICTED TO ADULTERATING EVERYTHING. Please connect with Mother Earth and WATER. YOU ARE THE POWER. NOW. WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH IT?
Comment #63 Posted by: Jennifer Moss | June 15, 2008 02:59 PM
One last thing. --IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT I KEEP PURIFYING MYSELF: SPIRITUALLY, MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND EMOTIONALLY. IT IS CRUCIAL THAT I TRANSFORM MY EXPLOSIVE LAVA FLOWS OF ANGER INTO SACRED POOLS OF PURE LOVE AND LIGHT. --Whatever folks write here, is for themselves. I KNOW WHERE I STAND. COMPLETELY LOVED AND NURTURED IN THE ARMS OF MY HOLY MOTER GAIA. WE ARE ONE!!! MAY YOU ALL JOIN US IN PERFECT HARMONY . . . . IN MANIFESTING HEAVEN ON EARTH . . . WHERE HEAVEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN!
Comment #64 Posted by: Jennifer Moss | June 15, 2008 03:17 PM
Interesting, I just posted a comment and it appears to have been deleted. Hmmm.
Comment #65 Posted by: spk | June 15, 2008 06:15 PM
Hmmm... You think some little Troll is deleting comments?
The curious among us hope you will post it again.
Comment #66 Posted by: Anonymous | June 15, 2008 06:29 PM
We saw Jennifer today rollerblading up and down main street with a Conch Shell - she was getting a lot of attention, but people who didn't know her had no idea it was any kind of protest or statement being made... nobody would if they hadn't read this today!
Congrats for upsetting the "moral majority" and shaking things up a bit! Especially when our dear earth is at stake and our greedy consuming society is fast asleep! (doesn't anyone else find it ironic that a majority of "earth conscious" bumper stickers appear on big pickups and SUVs up here? Do you really need a big truck to climb that mountain pass that leads to Ojai? LOL!)
I applaud her for her boldness in making a statement this community! I'd just suggest that she carry a sign or drag a banner that states your cause in the future so the attention has a greater impact immediately. ;)
Comment #67 Posted by: Fairly New Ojai Resident | June 15, 2008 06:55 PM
Dear #67 New Ojai Resident - Welcome!
Being new in town - I know you probably think Jen is some kind of "Earth Mother Theresa" protesting the "big bad earth consumers of Ojai with their SUVs", BUT let me assure you, I drive a little toyota and Jen is a true MORONIC OFF HER ROCKER, BORED OUT OF HER MIND, "I GOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO" fanatic just like the righteous religious right - she just has a different cause and it "appears more moral"!
I love naked people, I love sex, and I love the earth and all it's adorable creatures, so her nakedness etc. is the last thing that bothers me! - but I am bothered by a righteous "meshuganah" who passes herself off as a spiritual chick that (and I quote) -" KEEPS PURIFYING MYSELF: SPIRITUALLY, MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND EMOTIONALLY. IT IS CRUCIAL THAT I TRANSFORM MY EXPLOSIVE LAVA FLOWS OF ANGER INTO SACRED POOLS OF PURE LOVE AND LIGHT. -" and blah blah blah blah blah~! I've never met a more explosive, obnoxious, nasty unspiritual chick who needs to transform, but can only be what she can only Be...another member of the human race, doing the best that she can!
Just because she sticks on a couple of pasties and bushy thong, doesn't mean she's the poster child for naturalness and preserving mother Gaia? There are millions of people doing everything they can to save this beautiful earth and they don't go around being obnoxious in the process. Do you really think that she has brought even one person to "their senses" about helping this earth? I doubt it! Protest banner or not, Jen makes very little difference in her ridiculous campaign.
If she really wants to make a difference, tell her to go plant trees, donate money to green organizations - get off her bike and work in a daycare center teaching children about the earth - go help in Africa, India, New Orleans! But biking down the street like an idiot telling the world how (and I quote) "THE EGO OF MAN BLINDS HIM FROM GOD'S SIMPLE NAKED TRUTH" blah blah blah...I say: Let each man find his own "naked truth" - her ravings aren't going to help anybody find their corner of "THE TRUTH!"
And there is no need to be moralistic about SUVs - you have no idea what that person in that SUV is doing to serve humanity or save this earth - probably a lot more than the so called, "earth missionary" riding her bike carrying her own version of the bible! (Oprah drives an SUV and she has brought more attention to the environment and the earth than Green peace!)
And dear "New Resident" I did mean it when I said, "Welcome"! "If you see me walkin' down the street..." with my naked dog - please do say Hi - cause I really do love meeting new people and it's always wonderful to see a new face in Ojai!
Comment #68 Posted by: dvorah | June 15, 2008 09:06 PM
I have to agree with Fairly New Ojai Resident that it is ironic that "earth conscious" bumper stickers appear on big pickups and SUVs." Even if Oprah drives one, doesn't make it right. (Far wiser to prevent oil spills than to donate money to cleaning em up)
Here's a website that connects what SUV's have to do with the environment, foreign aid and the war.
http://swiharts.com/SUV/environmental/
Comment #69 Posted by: Ancient Ojai Resident | June 15, 2008 09:41 PM
She is nasty looking and I bet she smells bad. Who, in the name of sweet Jesus, would want those nasty breasts shoved in his face?
Comment #70 Posted by: Mark Dalberth | June 17, 2008 07:24 PM
Hey SPK, please resubmit your comment. I've just caught up with this comment thread -which started up again June 15th and would love to have your insightful commentary on this controversial topic. Thanks for all the interesting commenting everyone. Lots of food for thought...
Comment #71 Posted by: mike didj | June 17, 2008 10:08 PM
Kind hearts are the gardens.. kind thoughts are the roots..
Kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits..
Take care of your garden.. and keep out the weeds..
Fill it with sunshine.. kind words & kind deeds..
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Comment #72 Posted by: ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | June 17, 2008 10:32 PM
Hi EFJ, et al-
Through the years I have had friends who make similar expressions with a similar style. (The "mudpeople" were naked but for a thin layer of clay and leaves- shimmering through town at twilight....)
It may take the actor's urge to tell a tale, while risking the public's ire. The hazards of the actor's fracture fills the tabloids when repairing from a demanding role.
I am aware that this is not a role, but life itself. If we forget, and then forget again that we ever knew, it is a friend who kindly reminds us. Peeling back a layer of forgetting is as keen as Portia's verdict (Shakespeare, MOV).
EFJ- thanks for caring about the subject, as do I/we; your courage and humor. I am sure that your insights are expanding (for better and otherwise).
Carry on- welcome, well and happy...
Comment #73 Posted by: rogervitalarts | June 18, 2008 09:56 AM
I was at the Farmer's Market on Sunday too and until a friend forwarded me a link to an article today about "EarthFriendJen" I had no idea she was anything other than just an exhibitionist. Doesn't seem like the best way to get her message across... Plus, isn't being an environmental activist in Ojai sort of "preaching to the choir"?
Comment #74 Posted by: :-/ | June 18, 2008 05:23 PM