Posts by Emily Yoshida
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Gaga–Del Rey Beef, The Newsroom, and an Amanda Bynes Conspiracy Theory
The Girls have a lot to talk about now that everyone (i.e., Emily) is back in the same room, and Tess and Molly do their best to get her up to speed on everything important that happened on the Internet while she was gone (i.e., “Mass Text”). Our favorite kerfuffle this week was “So Legit,” […]
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Relax, Lucasfilm Says J.J. Abrams Isn’t Leaving Star Wars, So J.J. Abrams Isn’t Leaving Star Wars
This is ForceWatch, your as-needed check-in with the upcoming Star Wars reboot, including but not limited to Star Wars Episode VII. Full disclosure: Disney owns Grantland, and the rest of the universe. Not a whole lot went down on the Star Wars beat during the past couple of weeks while I was off ForceWatch duty, but I of […]
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Beyoncé vs. the Hair-Eating Fan: Two Unstoppable Machines Go Head-to-Head
I have a few theories about why this particular moment in Beyoncé history is so compelling, and yes, a lot of it has to do with our love of/frustration with the perfect android of professionalism Mrs. Carter-Fierce becomes when she is onstage. But I think what makes this a truly special moment is that this […]
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’Shipping Newsroom: Season 2, Episode 2: ‘The Genoa Tip’
This show is beginning to have as many characters as Game of Thrones and twice as many pairings, and Jerry Dantana and Maggie had more face time this week than either Slon or Slantana. (Magtana? Nooooo. Well? Mayb—Nooooo.) What also makes the ’ship game so hard to track this season is the fact that every […]
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‘Shipping Newsroom, Season 2, Episode 1: ‘First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Lawyers’
Before we commence another cycle of longing gazes, personal/professional entanglements, and rapid-fire verbal intercourse, I want to make a few things perfectly clear. 1. This is a column for people with emotional investment in the various romantic relationships on the HBO television program The Newsroom. This general category of activity is also known as “‘shipping.” […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Summer Jams
Is “Blurred Lines” offensive or just a stone-cold jam? Will Miley ever find what she’s looking for? Has the Internet made music fandom more superficial or deeper than ever before? Will Tess ever stop hating disco? All this and more on the new Girls in Hoodies. Listen to the podcast here: ESPN.com Podcenter. Subscribe to […]
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Sorkinisms II: Welcome to the NFL
As a reluctant Aaron Sorkin apologist (when he says “elite” he’s talking about a meritocracy, you guuuuyssss), I was totally with our own Amos Barshad when he defended our foremost hot speechifier against certain YouTube artists who sought to pull him down from his throne of truth. I mean, a lot of Hollywood types get […]
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The New Pacific Rim Trailer Cancels the Apocalypse, Kind Of
This past weekend I had a conversation with some friends about what Benjamin Franklin would think if he time-traveled to 2009 and watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. We kind of concluded that he would basically understand the underlying mech-obsessed philosophy that all those whirring gears and moving CGI parts were trying to convey, but […]
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Trailers of the Week: The Counselor, Prince Avalanche, Thanks for Sharing, and More
Escape Plan (October 18) Silver: What is there not to like about this? Sylvester Stallone’s role is a concoction of every character he’s ever played. I see the obvious similarities to Lock Up, a little bit of Cobra, a dash of Demolition Man, some The Specialist, and traces of every other movie where he played a so-called “specialist” that just […]
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There’s a New Song by the Pixies!
Just about two weeks after it was announced that Kim Deal had left the Pixies, the band has decided to drop a new song (and video!) on our heads pretty much out of nowhere — behold: “Bagboy.” It’s their first new song since 2004’s post-reunion single “Bam Thwok,” and because Deal was reportedly the member […]
