Posts by Emily Yoshida

  • Myst

    Girls in Hoodies Podcast: @Horse_ebooks, Myst, and GTA

    The Girls in Hoodies go cyberpunk today, starting with a discussion of the @Horse_ebooks Twitter bot conceptual art project, which turns into a discussion about artificial intelligence, why we search for divine wisdom in machines, and our desire for and fear of a man-made mind that exceeds our own. Still with us? Good! From virtual […]

  • Aaron Paul Drives Angry, Does Not Say 'Bitch' Once in the Need for Speed Trailer

    Aaron Paul’s post–Jesse Pinkman era is nearly upon us, and here’s a taste of what’s in store: fast cars and very serious voice-overs. Need for Speed is an adaptation of the driving game of the same name, and appears to be trying to live in that sweet spot between the Fast & Furious movies and […]

  • The Video for Mike WiLL Made It's '23' Can Mean Only One Thing: It's Miley Cyrus Day! (Again!)

    Big day for Miley. Let’s start with the above music video, for the silly, fun, insanely listenable “23,” her collaboration with frequent producer/rumored bf Mike WiLL Made It, Juicy J, and Wiz Khalifa. It’s basically a Saved by the Bell high school party fantasy transported to what one has to assume is the Chicago suburbs, […]

  • Myst

    Lost to the Ages

    Myst was supposed to change the face of gaming. What is its legacy 20 years later?

  • Trailers of the Week: Nebraska, Grace of Monaco, Snowpiercer, and More

    Nebraska (November 22) Silver: There are really only a handful of filmmakers working today whose films should be fervently anticipated as soon as they are labeled “in production.” Given Alexander Payne’s track record, he should be seen as one of them. Nebraska appears to contain simplistic visual similarities to Payne’s earlier work, like Citizen Ruth […]

  • Heroes of Cosplay

    Girls in Hoodies Podcast: New Girl, Britney, and Heroes of Cosplay

    Fox’s Comedy Tuesdays are back this week with some new, bro-ier blood, but we decide to take stock of its rhymes-with-Asmorkable flagship show, New Girl, as it enters its third season. This leads us to a discussion of the Friends sitcom model, the appeal of Zooey Deschanel, and whether or not babies are the death […]

  • Miley Cyrus, "Wrecking Ball"

    Miley Cyrus Tops the Hot 100 the Old-Fashioned Way — With a Great Song!

    I am not Miley Cyrus’s manager — the best evidence of that is her insanely successful campaign to be the most talked-about pop musician by a mile for the last three months. But if I were her manager — IF! — I might be feeling a little protective right now. Her latest checkpoint on her […]

  • Mad Men

    AMC Officially Out of Ideas, Extending Mad Men Through 2015

    Hey, we all like Mad Men, right? Last show of TV’s Golden Age Mad Men? Moody, impressionistic drama about people refusing to change and shuffling apathetically toward death Mad Men? Yeah, that one! How do you feel about two more years of Mad Men? Something like “AMC, you lazy, greedy sons of tricks, what are […]

  • The Walking Dead

    The Walking Dead Gets a Spin-off, Finally

    It has taken three seasons for The Walking Dead, the highest-rated drama on television, to get a spin-off, if you don’t count post-show chatfest Talking Dead. Why we have had to wait so long for such a sure thing is a mystery, but AMC is finally course correcting and has commenced development of a new […]

  • The Newsroom

    'Shipping Newsroom Season 2, Episode 9. 'Election Night Part 2’

    I am drowning in a sea of 'ships! It’s time to change up the format, to better bring you up to speed on where all the most important love connections stand as we head into an uncertain, possibly Newsroom-less future. But don’t think about that right now. Let’s live in the moment with our ACN […]

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