C/D LENA DUNHAM (THE DEFINITIVE POLL)

In less than a week, the tour sold around 8,000 tickets, which are selling for $38 at most locations. Tickets include a $28 signed hardcover of “Not That Kind of Girl,” which Random House is releasing on Tuesday.

Not really defending this, but keep in mind it's only about 10 bucks a ticket

she's obv modeling herself on the person she'll be enthusiastically stumping for in 16 months, Hillary WalMart Clinton.

The "free of charge" phrase is a little confusing too. Doesn't that usually refer to a case where a good or service is provided for free to a customer/audience?

They're already making a big markup on the book though -- $16.80 on amazon vs. $28 for the signed version. Not to mention it's a promotional tour to help them sell even more books. I agree the tour itself is not some giant profit center -- there are expenses to pay out of that revenue -- but why not throw the opening act a couple hundred bucks a night? Can they not earmark a few thousand dollars for an opening act?

And if not, how about don't fucking have one?

"A sand artist, a ukulele player, a cappella singers, gymnasts, performance artists and stand-up comics" as opening acts on a book tour is pretty ludicrous.

I kind of want to get the job and then do some kind of wild hendrix-style noisy guitar and stage antics set to upstage her

That would not upset her

To give her slight benefit of the doubt, she may not be the one personally deciding whether the opening act on her book tour gets paid -- it's not like she booked/arranged the tour herself.

she's obv modeling herself on the person she'll be enthusiastically stumping for in 16 months, Hillary WalMart Clinton.

― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, September 29, 2014 10:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how'd you all just let this gem pass you by this is groundbreaking work morbs

damn when i saw morbs a few weeks ago he swore he didn't have any hillary nicknames left in the tank

btw in case you forgot

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/hillary-clinton-wal-mart/

I understand Lena will have Kissinger doing some juggling at one of her readings btw, either white phosphorus or napalm.

You're basically just Morbs MadLibs at this point, huh?

To give her slight benefit of the doubt, she may not be the one personally deciding whether the opening act on her book tour gets paid -- it's not like she booked/arranged the tour herself.

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, September 29, 2014 12:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is kinda bumming me out so far & it would be really cool if this was something that ~the conversation~ elicited a change in; so far it is just this, though, so i guess not

do not feed the neurotic diva

scrolled through a bunch of her tweets, not very funny

looking forward to Girls SVU:Iowa tho

This type of nonsense is what makes me watch these personalities less and less (WRT to that Gawker piece).

People gossiping about brangelina, who's getting divorced, and what amazing artists Hollywood pumps out

Where's that humanity's in the gutter thread?

Where's that trenchant social commentary thread?

That would actually be a great thread, but I would say that.

Lena Dunham @lenadunham · 3h 3 hours ago

The fact that Gawker pointed this out really proves Judd Apatow's saying that "a good note can come from anywhere."
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Lena Dunham @lenadunham · 3h 3 hours ago

Some good points were raised and I've ensured that all opening acts will be compensated for their time, their labor and their talents.
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Lena Dunham @lenadunham · 3h 3 hours ago

This feature of the tour was meant to be a way to showcase local talent and I could not be more excited about it.
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Lena Dunham @lenadunham · 3h 3 hours ago

As an artist raised by artists, no one believes more than I do that creators should be fairly compensated for their work.

r.i.p. lenagate

don't worry she's still the worst

the worst what?

the living worst

the worst hilary clinton fan, morbs

Kick 'em when she's up
Kick 'em when she's down
We want Lena Dunham

Does anyone want to help throw some deadpan humour her way on Twitter?

I bet she'd respond, that Lena.

from that Fran Lebowitz interview i posted last week that nobody read:

I don't know Lena Dunham. I always defend her when people say she's not that great. I tell them, "I don't know, I don't care, but let me assure you: the world is full of mediocre men who are stunning successes." She may well not be the most brilliant person that ever lived -- let's say she's not -- but these rejections are misogynistic, pure and simple. When I was that age, I did not watch television. We had sex. We were so promiscuous, we didn't have time to watch television.

There weren't as many channels back then, though

She should have tried having sex while watching television.

http://www.deepfocusreview.com/reviews/images/videodrome5.jpg

ilxr's biggest blow, a lena dunham endorsement

Kevin Williamson has thoughts:

Those of us who have been working against various mandates imposed by the Affordable Care Act are as a matter of fact attempting to extricate ourselves from involvement in Lena Dunham’s sex life, the details of which we would gratefully leave to her own idiosyncratic management. It is the so-called Affordable Care Act that has involved us in subsidizing birth control, abortifacients, surgical abortions, and who knows what else, for the strong, powerful, self-actualized American woman who cannot figure out how to walk into Walgreens, lay down the price of a latte, and walk out with her own birth-control pills, no federal intervention necessary. The very conservative editors of this magazine are in fact trying to make it easier for them to do so with over-the-counter birth control. I suspect that Miss Dunham does not know very many conservatives, so allow me to pass along the message: We really, truly, sincerely do not wish to be involved in your sex life.

The Scream guy? O_o

Oh, an nro pundit.

that shitheel must be commended for sticking to the repub pablum despite years of people pointing out that birth control isn't just prescribed for birth control.

We really, truly, sincerely do not wish to be involved in your sex life.

dost protest too much, methinks

weirdly, I can't find this latte-priced birth control on Walgreens' website. There is a $50 morning after pill though.

a venti-sized IUD.

double-tall caramel abortifaccino no whip for emily

safe, legal and with a pinch of cinnamom

weirdly, I can't find this latte-priced birth control on Walgreens' website. There is a $50 morning after pill though.

Been to Starbucks lately?

Medical student Sameera Raziuddin broke the record for the world's most expensive Starbucks drink with a 60-shot Frappuccino costing $57.75 (after a discount). The 23-year-old's record officially takes the title from caffeine fiend Andrew Chifari, whose famous Sexagintuple Vanilla Bean Mocha Frappuccino cost $54.75.

Pretty sure drinking the above would be akin to the morning after pill.

or the kid would turn out to be Don Knotts

sexagintuple does sound like something birth control related

Frannie presupposes that if Lena were male, this wouldn't happen. I don't think this is what her critics are getting at, however.

she doesn't really "presuppose" that, she says it

If Lena Dunham were male the frothiness and holier-than-thou tone of the criticism directed at her would be entirely absent.