who:
I am just a simple girl from Queens, New York who grew up on a steady diet of PBS educational programming, Three's Company, films by John Hughes and 80's bands with names like Toto. Let's just say, I am a pop culture geek. Yes, I can tell the names of the original Charlie's Angels and yep, I do know the names of the members of New Kids on the Block. It is love of pop culture that drove me to attend New York University and ultimately earned me a degree in cinema studies. I paid thousands of dollars a year to watch movies and write long, lengthy papers on socio-cultural implications of the tracking shot in cinema of the French New Wave.

After college, I found not many people like to pay six-figure salaries to young, snarky women who have a degree in cinema studies so I instead fell back on my other passion, web developing. I have been in the new media industry for five years. I've seen the highs, the lows and the really lows. Along the way, I've done a bit of traveling and had more than a few memorable experiences.

what:
When not fiddling with photoshop, debating the cultural validity of soap opera and snarking on message boards, I enjoying playing the guitar, reading trashy fiction, watching films and writing long, boring descriptions about myself. On occasion, I have been known to attend concerts, take long walks and enjoy a nice foot massage.

I started this site simply because I have absolutely nothing to say.

where:
Even though I was born and raised in Queens, I don't have a New York accent. Sorry. I do not talk like Fran Drescher from The Nanny. I don't say "forget about it" nor have I ever utter "you know what I'm saying" (at least not without the irony).

New York is home. It is my city. It flows through my veins and is every single fiber of my being. I am a New Yorker. No amount of explaining, diagrams or even a powerpoint presentation could ever truly capture how much my city has informed how I think, what I feel and who I am.

huh:
What exactly does runnerbird mean anyway? In the summer of 1998, I was an intern for a film production company in New York and for some odd reason, I became a production runner. Running papers, documents and other things between production offices. The term 'bird' is sometimes used in the UK to refer to a girl, usually an odd girl.

Runnerbird was also the nickname actress Simone Lahbib had for a floor-runner on her television show Bad Girls and since I have not one ounce of originality, I took the name as my own.

vital signs
name: jen
nickname: ToT (don't ask..)
date of birth: october 27, 1978
age: 25
place of birth: new york city, new york usa
hair color: black
eye color: Brown
height: 5'2"
marital status: single
profession: interface developer, web hack, writer
zodiac sign: scorpio
favorite food: mexican, a good slice of new york pizza
favorite color: purple
party affiliation: moderate democrat with independent leanings
favorite band: the beatles
favorite book: screening party
favorite play: the talking cure
favorite musical: grease!
favorite alcoholic drink: margarita
favorite non-alcoholic drink: water, a coke with ice and a lemon
favorite actress: jodie foster, julianne moore
favorite actor: ewan mcgregor, george clooney
favorite film: silence of the lambs, mulholland dr, red
favorite director: david fincher, steven soderbergh
favorite classic hollywood director: howard hawks
favorite tv show (classic): three's company, i love lucy
favorite tv show (current): the l word, queer eye
favorite soap: all my children, guiding light
favorite 80s sitcom: golden girls
favorite 90s sitcom: friends
favorite 80s drama: l.a. law, thirtysomething
favorite 90s drama: e.r.
favorite british comedy: coupling, the office
favorite british drama: bad girls
favorite bbc miniseries: reckless, daniel deronda
favorite music video: aha - take on me
first album: control, janet jackson (on vinyl)
favorite album: the beatles, 1
first concert: menudo
favorite concert: moby, dance hall crashers
favorite place to visit (domestic): los angeles, ca
favorite place to visit (foreign): london, england
favorite dead person: jim henson
hobbies: jogging, guitar, sketching
weirdest talent: i can pick stuff up with my toes
highest sat score: 1250
closet obssession: star trek, xena, masterpiece theater
guilty pleasure (film): just one of the guys, the cutting edge, dirty dancing
guilty pleasure (tv): extreme makeover
guilty pleasure (music): anything 80s, anything disco
life motto: "life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans."