"In the spirit of Henry Adams, Mark Twain and Edith Wharton, we have Jenna Bush as today's author."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

President lays low at Jenna’s book party
October 6, 11:03 AM

http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2007/10/6/President-lays-low-at-Jennas-book-party



To get the president to a party, he apparently needs two things: a good reason and an easy location. He had both on Friday night as daughter Jenna held her only D.C. book party on Friday night on the rooftop of the Hay-Adams Hotel, across the street from the White House.

Nevertheless, Jenna, who wore a knee-length turquoise dress, said, “I don’t think I’d do any writing or anything to make me feel good without his encouragement.”

On hand for the festivities were Jenna’s fiancée Henry Hager, her sister Barbara, who traveled down from New York, former Mayor Tony Williams, socially ubiquitous Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, and execs from publisher HarperCollins and UNICEF.

And Jenna, as it turns out, now has something in common with Henry Adams, Mark Twain and Edith Wharton, who once graced the hotel's halls to discuss their works and the issues of the day. “In that spirit we have Jenna Bush as today’s author,” said the hotel’s executive vice president, Kay Enokido.

:spray:

[noamnety]

1. They lost me before the henry adams comment.

"Jenna, who wore a knee-length turquoise dress ..."

What the hell is it going to take to make reporters stop with that crap?

[yardwork]

7. I was thinking the same thing. Sheesh.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Okay. I must have been absent that day in American Literature 101.

Who was the ghostwriter for Ethan Frome?

It isn't even in the Wiki essay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Frome

[Beelzebud]

3. If she is our Mark Twain, lets just nuke ourselves now and get it over with.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Reminds me of a comment Conan O'Brien once made...

...that can be found on the "Best Of Triumph The Insult Comic Dog" DVD. He's discussing the Triumph CD "Come Poop With Me" and refers to it as "our generation's Dark Side Of The Moon."

:rofl:

[kurth]

5. They forgot to mention Hemingway and Dickinson

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. ...and Vonnegut and Mailer and Capote and Buckley and Michael Moore...

Oopsies. Scratch that last one. :blush:

[undeterred]

6. ...Looks more like a scene from Sex and the City

:rofl:

[Jade Fox]

8. At least after nearly seven years as first children, those two have...

learned to dress decently and fix their hair. That's the first picture I've seen of the Bush girls when they didn't look like Texas trash.

[noamnety]

10. managing to combine sexism with insulting an entire state.

well done.

God forbid those women (which is the proper term since they are adults, not "girls") should go out in public with a hairstyle you didn't first approve.

[Jade Fox]

11. Yes, I should probably have left out the Texas remark....

but as very public figures, dressing with some sort of taste makes sense, if only for the Bush girls own posterity. Those many photos of them looking like trash will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

[noamnety]

12. Women, not "girls"

Stop with the sexist women are children routine.

[Jade Fox]

13. Stop with the sanctimonious directives.....

I've been a feminist for 36 years. I don't need you to tell me about sexism or instruct me on what I am allowed to say.

[LeftyMom]

14. Everybody needs a hobby.

This is hers.

[Jade Fox]

15. Seems to be.....

;)

[noamnety]

17. What kind of feminism is this?

"after nearly seven years as first children, those two have learned to dress decently and fix their hair."

Is that the kind of feminism where we judge women ("children" if they piss us off) by how well they conform to fashion trends, rather than by their actions?

[Bitwit1234]

9. AND we all know she is a writer in name

bet she didn't write one word.