Posts by Tess Lynch

  • Does the Terrifying ‘Devil’s Due’ Viral Prank Bode Well for the Movie?

    The creative team behind Devil’s Due, opening this Friday, probably wasn’t stoked to learn of NBC’s Rosemary’s Baby remake, which just added Zoe Saldana to its cast. Along with the recently released (and mostly ill-received) Hell Baby, it’s clear that Satan has run short of condoms, and his evil infant army is storming the screens of America.

  • Don Delillo and Don Novello

    A Tale of Two Dons: DeLillo’s ‘Forgotten Memoir’ and Novello’s Yearbook About Sheep

    Judging by the Amazon reviews (“cleo birdwell, where are you?”; “I was surprised Cleo Birdwell used the language she did in this book”), Don DeLillo was successful in distancing himself from 1980’s Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League, written under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell. According […]

  • Molly Lambert, Emily Yoshida, and Tess Lynch

    The girls catch up on all the pop culture they missed over the winter break, most notably ‘The Millionaire Matchmaker,’ ‘The Bachelor,’ dating apps, and ‘American Hustle.’

  • Millionaire Matchmaker

    Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Millionaire Matchmaker, Plastic Surgery, Online Dating, and American Hustle

    The girls return from their winter hiatus ready to dive deep into all the important culture they took in over the break — obviously Millionaire Matchmaker, The Bachelor, and the Channel 4 documentary Secrets of the Living Dolls. (We’ll get to all that awards season fluff next week.) It gets us thinking about beauty standards […]

  • Cicada 3301

    A Wild-Bug Chase: Cracking Cicada 3301, the Internet’s Biggest Puzzle

    By now, you may have already heard of Cicada 3301, the Internet puzzle that began its third round last Sunday; then again, you may have skipped past it, and with good reason. Its purpose is vague and mysterious, its difficulty level intimidating, and it requires conversancy in plug-ins and encryption. It’s dense and hard, like […]

  • Pizza Underground

    Macaulay Culkin’s Band, the Pizza Underground, Releases Its First Video, Is Apparently Very Much for Real

    You can’t do something big, like create a pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band, without taking a few pies to the face. There was the misunderstanding that percussionist/kazoo soloist Macaulay Culkin, with whom you were recently reunited during the holiday Home Alone marathons, and his bandmates (Matt Colbourn, Phoebe Kreutz, Deenah Vollmer, and Austin Kilham) had […]

  • Real Escape Game

    Real Escape Games: Why Not Unwind by Living Out Your Totally Relaxing Imprisonment Fantasies?

    It’s too bad The Office‘s team-building exercise was hatched before mystery rooms, real-life claustrophobic entertainment exercises based on adventure games, became popular. The funhouses (not so fun for the claustrophobically inclined, of course) have become popular over the past two years, and involve visitors being trapped in rooms until they can figure out how to […]

  • SeaWorld

    The Blackfish vs. SeaWorld Battle Spills Over Into the Online Ballot Box

    When you take your child to a zoo or a marine park, you have to engage in a sort of willful ignorance. The “sad kid at the zoo” photo that made the Reddit rounds a few months ago pictures a kid dressed as a monkey, clinging to the closed park’s gates. Most kids love the […]

  • The Mindy Project

    Paid Date: The Mindy Project Is Advertising on Tinder

    Fox is promoting The Mindy Project on Tinder, the dating app for people in a hurry, with a series of fake profiles for some of its characters (including Mindy Kaling’s Mindy Lahiri). It was a polarizing move: On the one hand, it was clever and surprising, but on the other, it was simply “noxious native […]

  • Shia LaBeouf

    Shia LaBeouf Tweets His Latest Apology to Daniel Clowes … in the Sky

    Last year/two and a half weeks ago, Shia LaBeouf ripped off a comic by Daniel Clowes for his short film HowardCantour.com. Remember that? Of course not; the whole point of New Year’s is to reboot your brain and empty it of these items to make space for more. I’m sorry to clutter your hard drive, […]

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