Posts by Tess Lynch
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Afternoon Links: The Internet for Kidz, in 1997
Yesterday, we began our links by chastising the Internet for all it’s done to impair our enjoyment of all other sacred media, so today let’s kiss and make nice. Go ahead and adjust your VCR tracking so as best to enjoy this guide to the Internet for kids, a nice 1997 vintage with a fizzy […]
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Afternoon Links: How the Internet Ruins Everything
Grantland contributor Richard Rushfield wrote a treatise on how group Internet experiences (like the Breaking Bad premiere) are affecting how we digest our media, suggesting that maybe we’ve taken things a little too far: “Sharknado represents the internet now creating material for itself to mock … The camp fun of watching old disaster films was mocking […]
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Talk Like a Woman: Lake Bell vs. 'Sexy Baby Voice'
Lake Bell, whom you may remember from Boston Legal, It’s Complicated, What Happens in Vegas, or How to Make It in America (just covering my bases here), is on the cover of New York Magazine’s new issue, nude but for a large fake tattoo of a rose designed by her tattoo-artist husband Scott Campbell. Two […]
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Afternoon Links: Breaking Bad's Back, You Heard?
It’s a lonely day for the handful of humans who aren’t watching Breaking Bad. The final season’s second-half premiere numbers almost doubled those of the Season 5 premiere, hooking 5.9 million pairs of eyeballs (the parties thrown in the show’s honor looked … interesting!), and now we’re all caught up in the aftermath: reviewing Badger’s […]
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Afternoon Links: Things Might Not Go So Smoothly for Carrie and Brody in Homeland Season 3
The third season of Homeland has released its trailer. Its tone is working hard to drizzle on your fun Friday mood, so proceed with caution: “To Build a Home” is not the song you are going to want to bump on your drive out of the office today. “To Build a Home” is a Monday-morning […]
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Pie Style: An Appreciation
This season of Food Network Star, its ninth, was awfully weird (and before we review, please put on your spoiler goggles, if necessary). There was Danushka, a model and private chef whose vocal fry, sarcasm, and general don’t-give-a-shit demeanor made her seem like she’d been deliberately cast as a troll; Viet, a chef and restaurant […]
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Afternoon Links: On Thursdays, We Wear Pink and Recite All of Mean Girls
A Next Movie intern named Christopher Rosa has accomplished the remarkable feat of reciting Mean Girls in its entirety (well, almost — ol’ hawkeye in the comments notes four missing words at the 21:38 mark) in under 30 minutes. This is the kind of party trick for which the Internet was invented. I really appreciate […]
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American Horror Story: Coven, Salem, and TV’s Impending Witch Obsession
Yesterday a new trailer was released for American Horror Story: Coven, the third season of the show I live to recap. It’s brief and spooky, as teasers are meant to be, and features roughly half a dozen women in nightshirts stuck to the walls of a stark white room with a big chandelier. A white […]
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Afternoon Links: Relive The O.C. Through The Power of Song (and MySpace)
In all these months of link dumping, it looks like we’ve never directed any traffic to the new Myspace. What a tragic error! Today, that changes: Myspace has a long history of friendship (it’s the place for it, after all) with The O.C., and today the site featured a discussion of “every song that soundtracked […]
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Afternoon Links: MGMT Would Like You to Know ‘Your Life Is a Lie’
MGMT’s video for “Your Life Is a Lie” has everything, like the musical equivalent of a Stefon nightclub: a fake book by Daryl Oates, Flipper, a fetus, a choir, basketballs with eyes, and topless people with cursive condiment messages written on their torsos. The band’s self-titled third album will be released in September, and it’s […]
