Posted on 12/14/2014 11:04:59 PM PST by Rummyfan
My editor called and said, Do a column on this Lena Dunham flap!
And I said...
Actually, back up. What I did NOT say was, Who the hell is Lena Dumbwhat?
Im a 67-year-old guy. I live in rural New Hampshire. I dont subscribe to US Weekly, assuming that still exists. I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes The Bass Pros on Outdoor Channel.
The only Lena I know of is Lena Horne, a wonderful performer, who is not involved in any flaps, and who is also dead.
But Im a writer. That is, I was a writer for 40 years. Now Im a content provider. And the Internet has declared that content is free. So when I get a call from someone whostartling as this is in our timespays me
But the Internet isnt all bad. I can Google Lena Dunham.
She created and stars in (young content consumers please excuse this aside to readers who are as out-of-it as I am) a television series on HBO called Girls.
Ms. Dunham is 28. I was under the impression that girls is a demeaning term for adult women. The title must have something to do with this hipster Irony thing, which I confess I dont understand. The root of the word irony is in the Greek eironeia, liar.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Double bacon please.
P J O'Rourke is the best.
And National Lampoon (way back when...)
If his daughters really are named Poppet and Muffin, he should be taken out and shot.
“I was under the impression that girls is a demeaning term for adult women. The title must have something to do with this hipster Irony thing, which I confess I dont understand. The root of the word irony is in the Greek eironeia, liar.”
It’s all about refusing to grow up.
wow I read something on the daily beast that I did not want to burn after words
He and his second wife have two daughters (Elizabeth and Olivia), and a son (Clifford). His first wife was Lena Horne's granddaughter (I just point that out because he mentions that Lena).
He refers to them in his writing as Muffin, Poppet, and Buster.
The characters in Girls take drugs. They hook up in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman. And they drink and they vomit and they drink and they vomit and they drink and they vomit.
They must have spent hours in makeup with Lena for that picture. She looks almost normal. Every other picture I have seen (not that many, admittedly), she looked, well, like she was dressed in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake.
The characters in Girls take drugs. They hook up in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman. And they drink and they vomit and they drink and they vomit and they drink and they vomit.
“The young people in Girls are miserable, peevish, depressed, hate their bodies, themselves, their life, and each other. They occupy apartments with the size and charm of the janitors closet, shared by The Abominable Roommate. They dress in clothing from the flophouse lost-and-found and are groomed with a hacksaw and gravel rake. They are tattooed all over with things that dont even look like things the way a anchor or a mermaid or a heart inscribed Mom does, and theyre only a few years older than my daughters.
The characters in Girls take drugs. They hook up in a manner that makes the casual sex of the 1960s seem like an arranged marriage in Oman. And they drink and they vomit and they drink and they vomit and they drink and they vomit. “
IMO anyone who lets their young kids watch shows like this are guilty of very poor parenting. Watching these shows leads the pre or young adolescent to think that the behavior in these shows is normal and expected. For example, if a show repeatedly shows teens having sex on the first date, that is what they think they are expected to do when they start dating. After all TV shows that is what all the cool kids are doing. These shows are not entertainment, they are essentially instructional videos whether they were meant to be or not.
Lena Dunham has pretty eyes, a clear complexion, and a good haircut. If she wanted to, she could look unremarkably nice. Clearly, she doesn’t want to: she wants to look awful.
If I was the Barry who was smeared by here... I’d be lawyering up.
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I still am not familiar with this female, although I learned far more than I want to know about the show by reading the original article. O’Rourke says that the accused student was not registered at the school that this skank went to.
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