DREW
I love Jenny because she let me convince
her to do this...
FRED
“I came for the hair, I STAYED for the personality.”
KATE
“When I think about Jenny
I think that she gives the warmest bestest hugs ever.
She also one of the smartest &
funniest people I know.
But the HUGS are a standout.”
CHRIS
“Couple of things/reasons
why we should all love Jenny:
• Only she can throw a classy gathering with a mannequin dressed in S&M gear... and that is the only
party EVER where I was doused with hot wax... (many moons ago, Park Slope apartment)
• Only she was smart enough to cut the bottom off of Yamila’s bridesmaid dress and make it into a camisole
top suitable for summer... and proceeded to swing at a piņata with it on... (Yamila's birthday 2001 in the park)
• Only Jenny knows how to ‘receive’ guests in grand fashion... (birthday 2002, on the couch,
holding court)
• Only Jenny could get me to adopt the title ‘drink bitch’ whilst sporting spiked punk hair (thanks
to Nicole Tucker) and a dog collar... woof...
• Only Jenny can put up with Drew and we thank/love her for it... (forever)”
RACHEL
“This is one of my favorite
Jen stories:
In 1995, we arranged a big joint
birthday for Jen/going away for Aurea party at Carson’s house. It was a fancy dress-up party with lots of decorations,
snacks, new dresses – the works. Jen ordered a massive fancy chocolate cake from some bakery downtown.
When the day finally arrived, it
was pouring rain. Jen went to pick up the cake and standing outside in SoHo with a massive cardboard bakery box in the wet
weather was making Jen very cranky. As taxi after taxi sped past without stopping, Jen became more and more frusterated.
When a cab finally pulled up to
the curb she was standing on, there was evidently some confusion as a sweet family of tourists (all four apparently dressed
in University of Nebraska sweatt shirts, light blue jeans, white sneakers and fanny packs) believed the cab was pulling over
for them, and began to move toward it.
Seeing this, Jen was aghast that
they could belive that the cab belonged to them. Who did they think they were? They had been merely cowering under an awning
holding a feeble finger in the air while she, brave urban soul, had been boldly out on the corner risking wet hair and melted
cake.
Clutching the cake to her chest
with one hand, and the other outstretched in front her, Jen dove past the startled tourists and into the car, just as they
were reaching for the door handle. With one hand waving wildly in the air and screaming at the top of her lungs ‘I’m
a native New Yorker and that’s MY cab!!!!’, Jen sped off to the Upper West Side, leaving nothing but soggy, open
mouthed mid-westerners in her wake.”
STEVE ELLIS
Check out this very cool birthday painting Steve did for me this year...
NICOLE TUCKER KEITH
"I love you."
RYAN DUNLEAVY
The infamous comic strip...
LORRAINA RACCUIA
“The story of when I met Jen:
I was walking to the subway in a
daze, after my first TSI Happy Hour, and I
realized that a girl who looked
familiar, a girl who was introduced as Russ
DeVeau's temp at an earlier meeting,
was headed in my direction. We
started talking and laughed at each
other’s sarcastic jokes and talked all
the way from the upper west side
to Brooklyn.
I just assumed that this Jen Johnson
was about 20-years-old, since she was
a temp. I've later confessed this to her and received many hugs and kisses
and gleeful shrieks of ‘this
is why you're my friend, honey!’ since then.”
CRYSTAL SKILLMAN
“SHE’S JENNY
A song for Jenny, the queen of PR,
by Crystal Skillman
(Sung as Jenny might suspect to
a Rentish rip-off of a tune)
She’s Jenny
oh yeah
and you best listen
She’s Jenny
Yeah
no time for sissin’
The nicest gal in town’s
also got the right moves down
From Upper West
To downtown low
(‘though Brooklyn’s
not too far to go)
She’ll make the pitch
Writing tough
You better catch the switch
She’ll spin you upside down
that’s enough!
heart’s never lost but found
She’s Jenny
oh yeah
and you best listen
She’s Jenny
Yeah
no time for sissin’
She’ll tell the truth
write it as a bullet
and you’d better take it good
Her radical ideas
sell it all the way
buy it now – you know that
you should
LIsten up:
make the call
spend the dough
take the job
see the show
buy the product
remember the movie
love the art
give away your booty!
It’s time!
It’s time!
It’s PR people!
She’s Jenny
oh yeah
and you best listen
She’s Jenny
Yeah
no time for sissin’
YEAH!
YEAH!
YEAH!
(big brassy finish. Hold it.)
‘Ya Dig?
(Final wail.)”
