Posts by Tess Lynch

October 15, 2013
What’s With All These Open Letters?

It was a chilly fall evening in Toluca Lake, and the air of Miley Cyrus’s mansion was perfumed by a lump of wasabi in an empty sushi container. Miley reclined against the torso of a warm, cozy bear-person and reached into her giant mailbag. She removed an envelope from Sufjan Stevens, received a grammar lesson, […]
October 14, 2013
SNL: After 24 Years, Bruce Willis Returns to Host for No Apparent Reason

Last week, I broke my hands writing about Miley Cyrus’s SNL double-duty hosting gig. Electric currents ran through my fingers from my very soul, and I typed 580,000 words without blinking. I thought, I should scale back. I told myself, Shut up, you’re on Page 95. I couldn’t stop, and I wouldn’t stop, and some […]
October 10, 2013
Girls in Hoodies Podcast: American Horror Story: Coven, John Mayer, and Miley vs. Sinead

We may not all have seen Gravity yet (it was a very busy weekend!) but the Girls in Hoodies are all-in on American Horror Story: Coven, the third series of Ryan Murphy and Brian Falchuk’s horror anthology franchise. There’s just something about Jessica Lange’s dance interludes that transcend the genre, and we all agree it’s […]
October 10, 2013
Weekly Weird Internet: Explaining the ‘Starbucks Drake Hands’ Phenomenon

Memes based on real people are a dangerous game. Nobody really wants to become a meme — or, more specifically, watch as the Internet mocks and improvises on a picture or video of his or her face — because not only do most people have tiny, sensitive centers that really hate to get made fun […]
October 9, 2013
American Horror Story: Coven Promises to Deliver More Twisted Believable-Unbelievable Goodness

During American Horror Story: Asylum, the second season of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s epic and award-winning horror saga — I personally would give it all the Emmys, because it’s daddy’s favorite show — there were moments when we viewers were so assaulted by the over-the-top violence and totally bizarre twists that we simply had […]
October 8, 2013
The First Twitter TV Ratings Are Here, But Do They Actually Tell the Truth?

Last December, Nielsen announced it had partnered with Twitter to create a ratings system based on tweet chatter. The press release seemed as though it had been written by aliens or robots, even more so than the usual PR statement: You know, everyone’s “looking forward to collaborating with Twitter ecosystem partners on this metric” and […]
October 7, 2013
We Went There: Learning to Surrender to John Mayer at the Hollywood Bowl

On Saturday night, Grantland sent Tess Lynch and me, Molly Lambert, to the Hollywood Bowl for the Los Angeles stop of John Mayer’s Born and Raised tour. We were excited to bond with our fellow Angelenos in the comfort of a legendary venue after a humiliating week of having to tell our friends that our […]
October 7, 2013
SNL: Miley Once Again Demands Our Collective Attention With Impressive Hosting Double Duty

In the span of less than a week, Miley Cyrus got into a cyber fight with Sinead O’Connor, was the subject of a New York Times piece defending her against critics, and pulled double duty hosting and musical-guesting on SNL. Everyone seems to be joining forces to put Miley through Olympian-level trials while staring so […]
October 3, 2013
Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Breaking Bad, Bangerz, Lorde, and MasterChef Junior

First off, an announcement: The Girls in Hoodies are on Tumblr! We’re not entirely sure what we’re going to post there yet, but if you have questions or suggestions about the pod you can let us know there. OK! We start off this week’s pod with a bit of a chat about Breaking Bad’s finale, […]
October 3, 2013
Silk Road Blues: Shutting Down a Corner of the Dark Internet

If Silk Road — the “anonymous marketplace” that sold illegal drugs, passports, ATM hacks, and dried reindeer meat (but mostly drugs) — had a headquarters, maybe manned by a fleet of office workers fueled by ill-begotten blow, you would have thought that yesterday would have been a pretty chill workday. The government is in the […]

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