Posts by Tess Lynch

  • Afternoon Links: The Stark Sisters Vine-cept Your Brain

    If you want to boost your stocks, you’ve got to Thronerize them. Not a Vine fan? How about now, after you’ve been Vinecepted by the Stark sisters (it doesn’t work for everyone; as one commenter points out, “Not even Maisie Williams, who is adorable, could make me give a shit about Vine”)? Need some traffic […]

  • Afternoon Links: Your ‘Blurred Lines’ Parody Catch-Up, Starting With #COSBY

    I’ve been totally slacking on my “Blurred Lines” parody investigative reporting. Besides the intro to The Cosby Show, the Robin Thicke riffs have covered themes ranging from mature women, senior citizens, Super Mario, Snapchat, and whatever this is. Some of them could use help with the syncing, but I guess you’re supposed to dance like […]

  • Afternoon Links: It’s Complicated, and Kinda Weird

    The good news is, it’s no longer “Complicated.” The bad news is, Avril Lavigne and person to blame for Nickelback, Chad Kroeger, are married. How are we going to celebrate? By chugging champagne and singing “It Won’t Suck Itself“? Worrying over what’s become of Deryck Whibley? Feel the power of this union. Really feel it. […]

  • Afternoon Links: So Many Racists, So Little Time

    The hot water of controversy that has been sous-viding Paula Deen just accepted another vacuum-sealed pouch of hatred into its steamy bath: MasterChef’s Krissi Biasiello has been called out on racist tweets from May 2012, including one in which she refers to the NBA as “N—–s Bouncing Around #thatsracist.” The hashtag really helps decode that […]

  • Siberia

    Siberia and the Evolution of Unreality TV

    Siberia has a great pitch: Survivor meets Lost, a scripted reality show in which contestants willingly strand themselves in the wilderness for a chance at $500,000, battling supernatural forces and each other. It’s an exciting idea for many reasons. First is the fact that it signals a kind of cultural swing toward fiction while acknowledging […]

  • Afternoon Links: David Lynch and Trent Reznor Make Seizure-Inducing Magic Together

    David Lynch and Nine Inch Nails have come together again. Lynch directed the video for “Came Back Haunted,” which somewhat unsurprisingly comes with a seizure warning and jiggly faces intercut with images of bug children and freaky masks. Lynch’s and Reznor’s paths have crossed before — “The Perfect Drug” was written for Lost Highway — […]

  • Afternoon Links: California, Here Mad Men Comes

    [protected-iframe id=”ddfb12f03fab24b145422a85b2844cfd-60203239-28493950″ info=”http://video.vulture.com/video/Mad-Men-Goes-OC/player?layout=compact&read_more=1″ width=”510″ height=”446″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”] Dear Mad Men/The O.C. mash-up: Please Pinocchio yourself. Become a real boy. Give us a season of Don Draper going full Ryan Atwood, give us stoner Megan, give us not one but two Seth Cohens in Ted Chaough and Stan Rizzo. Roger can be Sandy (with a dash […]

  • Girls in Hoodies Podcast: James Gandolfini, Paula Deen, and the Mad Men Finale

    We know Grantland — and the rest of the Internet — has been filled to the brim this week with farewells to the late, great James Gandolfini (and justly so!), but the three of us didn’t want the week to go by without saying our piece about the beloved actor and the impact he had […]

  • The Eight Scariest Things About Hell Baby Based Only on the Trailer

    Early reports indicate that Hell Baby, a fall comedy-horror release written and directed by Reno 911! alumni Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, might not be the next Rosemary’s Baby. Variety briefly slammed it, calling it “tedious and tasteless in equal measure,” but the New York Post predicted that it’ll achieve cult status à la […]

  • Afternoon Links: Every Famous Person in the World in a Single Lip-Dub Video

    Top YouTube comment on Bonnie McKee’s star-studded lip-dub video: “This is how I’d like my world to be. Different creeds, colors, ages, genres, and at least one drag queen, all having a good time together.” Way to derive meaning from a song about adult Slurpees and organ-dispensing vending machines! The future is bright.

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