Posts by Tess Lynch
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Afternoon Links: Aubrey Plaza Takes Over the Internet for a Day, Starting With This Sadly Fake Daria Trailer
It’s such a cruel joke when you see a parody of something that should be real, as is the case with Daria’s High School Reunion, starring Aubrey Plaza in the titular role. Thanks a lot, College Humor. You told me to “GET EXCITED” and I got excited. We need the remaining 115 minutes of this […]
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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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Jason Sudeikis Leaves SNL — Here Are His Best Sketch Moments
In case you had any doubt (how could you have had any doubt?), Jason Sudeikis is officially leaving Saturday Night Live after 10 years on the show, two as a writer and eight as a performer. SNL bid good-bye to veterans Fred Armisen and Bill Hader in its most recent finale, and with Seth Meyers’s […]
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Afternoon Links: They Are Geek Girls, They Are Legion
Basking in the afterglow of Comic-Con, it’s time to meditate on the importance of the geek. The music video above was the creation of The Doubleclicks, a pair of sisters who “sing about Dungeons & Dragons, dinosaurs, and Mr. Darcy,” and defend female dorks from people who apparently roam around policing nerd impersonators. What’s up […]
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Afternoon Links: The Gender-Flipped ‘Blurred Lines’ Video Arrives, But It Has Competition
Though it may not have topped “Get Lucky” in the chart domination category, “Blurred Lines” has gone into total meme takeover mode this week. Perhaps you’d like to sully the memories of your youth with “Blurring Pains,” the Growing Pains–”Blurred Lines” mash-up that tosses a dick-size compliment in Thicke Sr.’s direction. There’s also a gender-flipped parody […]
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The Curse of the Gilded Diaper: Understanding America’s Fascination With Famous Babies
For a nation that claims not to give a hoot about the royal family, we sure did give a lot of tweets (and Facebook real estate, media coverage, and gender guesses) in honor of the occasion of the birth of the son of Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. The Prince of Cambridge weighs […]
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Afternoon Links: A Fine Tribute to Dennis Farina
Dennis Farina — otherwise known as Law & Order‘s Joe Fontana, New Girl‘s Walt, and Luck‘s Gus — has died at age 69 from a blood clot in his lung. Farina served for 18 years as a Chicago police officer before appearing in his first acting role in 1981’s Thief. He leaves behind a great […]
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Afternoon Links: There’s Nothing Funnier Than Cracking Up at a Cannibal Dinner Party
Fresh from a screening at Comic-Con, the Hannibal gag reel hit the Internet today. That old saying that we memorized in first-grade media studies — “The more serious the project, the funnier the gag reel” — is only reinforced by watching Laurence Fishburne get the giggles in front of the drama lens (cannibal filter). How […]
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Afternoon Links: The Leaked Kanye West VMA Rant Blowing Up the Internet
How are you enjoying your Summer of Kanye? The most recent nucleus-centric news item is this audio tape of West from 2009, secretly recorded while he was having dinner on the night of his infamous mic-snatch at the VMA’s (how tacky and sneaky of you, eavesdropper!). The snippet is as dramatic as you’d expect, and […]
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: Barbie, Tulpas, and Jack Handey
This week, Tess and Molly discuss the Barbie Dream House Experience, a Florida outlet mall destination recently explored in all its pink glory by Vice’s Mitchell Sunderland, and the time Molly got stuck on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland. They also chat about tulpa enthusiasts, a community of people who summon autonomous […]
