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Ojai’s scantily-clad Pastie Lady touts healing benefits of water

Posted by: Maven on April 26, 2008 at 6:29 am

“Girls”, he said. “If you want to increase your readership, you need pictures of pretty girls.”

OK, but how to do that, I think, drumming my fingers on my desk. I mean, post pictures of girls in bikinis? Naw, that’s just too yesterday. You’ve all seen that before. Aquafornia needs something different. Maybe Aquafornia needs ….

The Ojai Pastie Lady The Ojai Pastie Lady!

From the Los Angeles Times:

Cars were whizzing past one of Ojai’s busiest corners when Jennifer Moss decided to do a headstand, clad in only a G-string and flower-shaped pasties.

Why?

“Headstands are good for you!” she said, beaming, as she pulled a yellow smiley-face pillow out of her bicycle’s small trailer. With athletic grace, Ojai’s “Pastie Lady,” a self-described social artist and environmental activist, quickly pulled her legs up to salute her adopted hometown.

Not that this artsy, liberal-leaning city of 8,000 is all that impressed. In the year since Moss began pedaling her bicycle down Ojai’s main street in barely-there attire, she’s been arrested twice and ticketed repeatedly for obstructing traffic. Irate parents have asked the City Council to force Moss to put on more clothes. Now she may face prosecution for public indecency.

“The issue we’re looking at is exposure,” said Jim Ellison, Ventura County’s chief assistant district attorney. “We’ve assigned an attorney to do some research.”

Ojai’s citizens, meanwhile, have divided into pro- and con-Pastie Lady camps, venting their opinions in the local newspaper nearly every week. “Ojai tolerance is not eternal,” local filmmaker Leland Hammerschmitt wrote in a guest editorial in the Ojai Valley News, in which he scolded Moss for her “naked narcissism.” “You’ve had more than your day. Go away. Just stop.”

But Moss, whose social activism appears to revolve around natural-fiber clothing and the healing powers of water, also has ardent defenders. They say “Earth Friend Jen” is not hurting anyone and that naysayers should leave her alone. “In the South, they actually embrace you if you are eccentric or even a little crazy. . . .,” Dusty Fernandez, an Oak View resident, wrote in the paper. “So lighten up people! Enjoy the view or turn the other way.”

(Note the vague reference to water which nonetheless means I can post it and still be considered staying on topic…) Read more about Ojai’s Pastie Lady in the LA Times by clicking here.

Meanwhile, I’ll be sitting here, watching my sitemeter count soar ….

April 26, 2008 · Filed Under Weird & Wacky Water News

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One Response to “Ojai’s scantily-clad Pastie Lady touts healing benefits of water”

  1. Anna on March 8th, 2011 9:30 am

    Why don’t you people in ojai leave jen alone?, and let her ride her bike around naked, like she wants too! Don’t change law, just because you don’t like someone!

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