Lindsay Lohan’s Rambling Email
All right, I’ll admit, I was suckered in by this Slate article. Here’s what I learned: Lindsay Lohan sent a rambling email to people that was filled with poorly spelled words and grammatical errors. I don’t really understand who Lindsay Lohan is. I mean, ok, I’ve seen her in a few movies. I know she was the chick in Mean Girls (which I thought was remarkably mediocre for all the excitement it seemed to cause) and Prairie Home Companion. But like, who is she, really? She’s just kind of a second-rate actress, right? At what point did our culture begin paying attention to celebrities before they’ve done anything?
It’s pretty scary how excited people are when they see celebrities going nuts. This Lindsay character seems to be losing her marbles, and Slate can barely hide their glee. People are really unhappy, I think, and it makes them feel more comfortable to see others who are worse off than they are.
It is a strange world, the world we live in. A completely unremarkable person like Lindsay Lohan writes a bizarre email and it becomes a news item that is reported on Slate and then read by me. Am I adding fuel to the fire by even mentioning it? I don’t really care if Lindsay Lohan is dumb. She’s not doing anything where she needs to be intelligent. Yes, there is a skill to being a great actor, but I would not necessarily call that skill “intelligence.” With apologies to my acting friends, who are all very smart people. I’m just saying, ya’ know. There are plenty of people in Hollywood and the rest of the world making very respectable livings on limited intellectual budgets. Like our, um, President.
December 10th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Lindsay is Famous For Being Famous. We have become an entertainment driven society in which Britany’s breakup takes presidence over Americans and Iraqis getting slaughtered in Iraq.
So what is the answer? Ignoring Britany and Lindsay and the rest of the trailer trash / FFBF clan is not a realistic approach. We can no sooner turn away from an internet photo of Britany sans panty than we can of a 38 car pile up.
I have an idea, maybe someone should create an internet based Inconsequential Person National Registery - IPNR - where any 12-25 year old can register and tell the world about his or her self absorbed mindnumbing life. Maybe this would so overkill us with useless celebrity that we would grow tired of following this crap. Oh wait, somebody already thought of that, its called myspace.com.
December 11th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Well put!
There’s an article on Salon about this phenomenon, which they link to Paris Hilton. While I agree with it for the most part, in order to really care, you have to accept at some point that the concept of celebrity is worth protecting. Maybe, now that I think about it, all this celebrity-bar-lowering is a good thing. The morons can have their talentless celebrities to distract them from their moron lives, while the rest of us get to the important business of playing online video games and things.