Posts by Tess Lynch
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Afternoon Links: Making — and Breaking — the Rock Band
“Like Peter Gabriel going solo in the ’70s, Harmonix had some crazy new ideas, and it didn’t need Activision, the Phil Collins of video games, holding it back.” —“The Rise and Fall of Rock Band”
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Richard's Hatchlings: Our First Survivor Winner Might Have Procreated at an Alarming Rate
Richard Hatch has a long legacy. He’s the winner of the first season of Survivor, of course. He’s a man whose perpetual nudity seemed to be interpreted by some of his fellow castaways as an aggressive affront and whose gameplay was ruthless enough to earn him the Sue Hawk earful heard ’round the world — […]
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Afternoon Links: Howard Stern's Right-Hand Lady Discusses Cancer Treatment
Howard Stern’s sidekick Robin Quivers, with whom Stern has worked for three decades and has referred to as his “backbone” (“Doing a show without Robin is like cutting off my left arm. Or my right arm. Or maybe both”), revealed today that she has been undergoing 15 months of treatment for endometrial cancer and that […]
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Afternoon Links: Informal Poll Shows Minimal Overlap Between Football Enthusiasts and Ryan Seacrest Fans
I could have told you, Seacrest, the stadium was never meant for someone as beautiful as you.
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Afternoon Links: James Franco Egged My House
Once upon a time in 1992, a young James Franco egged a house. That’s just how young poets roll. The home belonged to the parents of the founder of the Bureau of Trade, a “curated digital marketplace” that now features a pinboard of sorts devoted to young Franco, with his apology letter as its centerpiece. […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: True Blood, Burning Man, and the James Franco Roast
This week, Grantland’s Rembert Browne dropped by the Hoodie Clubhouse to recap his actually-pretty-fun-sounding adventures at Burning Man, the famed festival/temporary city/art space that sets up shop every summer in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. $400 for a week without money or cell phones and 8 a.m. dubstep alarms? Sign us up! We also […]
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Weekly Weird Internet: The Pavlov Poke, Zip It Tablecloth, and Electroshock Anti-Facebook Therapy
What are you supposed to be doing right now, and why aren’t you doing it? Is this tab sandwiched between Facebook and Twitter, with Gmail all the way over to the left, and is there another window hidden behind this one, growing staler by the minute, that contains all the things you’re really supposed to […]
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Afternoon Links: Meditate on the Ephemerality of Internet Culture With This Iron Man Balloon Costume
Some days, there’s a cohesive theme to the afternoon links. Other days, like today, it’s difficult to find any overarching meaning within the knots of the giant ball of Internet we call “life.” N-words and doughnuts. Funky Winkerbean and pregnancy after 40. Ah, the rich texture of the world. How can we begin to understand […]
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Afternoon Links: Vanilla Ice Goes Amish, Obviously
Vanilla Ice has a Wikipedia page that is roughly 500 times the length that you would expect it to be. I’m kind of stuck on the paragraphs describing how he let his friends tattoo him when he was on a drug binge and the chronicle of when his pets, a wallaroo and a goat, ran […]
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Fifty Shades of Grey Casts Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam in Lead Roles; Tell Your Mom
Everyone’s sure kept a keen eye on the Fifty Shades of Grey casting, especially considering a lot of people claim to have no intention of seeing the movie. Of course, that fits with the larger Fifty Shades pattern: A friend’s mom described author E.L. James’s writing style as “like Danielle Steel with a bad flu,” […]
