Morning Coffee (5/31/13)

Schoolchildren keep throwing sandwiches at Julia Gillard. For some reason.

This, by Mara Wilson, is great: 7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy

Our Radical Future: Cults, Utopias and Rebellions of the 1890s

The Smartest Star in Hollywood

The Onion: BuzzFeed Writer Resigns In Disgrace After Plagiarizing ‘10 Llamas Who Wish They Were Models’

Morning Coffee (5/30/13)

Kerfuffle Politics: The Statement Adam Levine Shouldn't Need To Make

I love Maine: Missing Man Found After Walking Up To Reporter Reporting On How He Was Missing

I love England: Our love-hate relationship with garden gnomes

I would like to try a cronut.

I would also like to try ShopHouse.

25 Signs You're Addicted to Books

This has Titanic and Great Gatsby spoilers, but it's amazing.

Do Not Buy Newsweek

Morning Coffee (5/29/13)

Back! Ish. Maybe. We'll see. But hi! How are you?

Michele Bachmann will not seek reelection.

How Writers Can Get Paid Now: Adventures In Invoicing Your Copyright Violators

Hear hear: What Authors Owe You

Awesome: Bikers Against Child Abuse make abuse victims feel safe

Hahahahaha: I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled

Aww: Penguins named after William and Kate expecting their first baby

Morning Coffee (5/15/13)

Hi! How's your week going? I had a few minutes this morning so I thought I'd throw together a few links.

Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal as the princes in Into the Woods? That would be amazing.

Oooh, finally, a trailer for The Bridge.

A Medieval Times movie? HAHAHAHA.

I have concerns.

Reconstructing Neolithic Homes

Oooh, Castle card game!

The Fading Diversity of Lost Girl

Morning Coffee: Brief Hiatus

Happy Monday! Because of the volume of TV news this week and a bunch of travel I'm doing in the next few weeks, Morning Coffee is going on a brief hiatus, because there are only so many hours in the day. I'll try to do some link roundups a few times a week, but it won't be an every morning thing. We'll get back to normal in June. Thanks for understanding!

Morning Coffee (5/10/13)

Happy Friday! More of this than usual is TV-related, because it's a big TV news week. Sorry!

Foyle's War is coming back on September 15!!!!!!!!!!! I do not have enough exclamation points to express my feelings about this. (That link is to a press release that has a lot of other interesting PBS fall programming announcements, too.)

The CW picked up four new shows (including the one about sexy young Mary, Queen of Scots!) and NBC picked up four (here and here). Here are pictures from the NBC pickups.

In case you were also startled by your radio yesterday, yes, Sirius XM changed its lineup.

Yay: Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the Tonys again.

The Bletchley Circle was renewed! This was a really good postwar feminist crime drama - definitely worth a look.

Brittany villages blazing a trail in energy self-sufficiency

Why F. Scott Fitzgerald Is All Over the Dictionary

Two Lifelong Peas in a Pod

Morning Coffee (5/9/13)

It's started: Fox picked up nine new shows last night.

If you want to keep up with all the network announcements, my TV reference spreadsheet is now live and frequently updated.

Important: Are We Laughing With Charles Ramsey?

Confessions of a John Le Carre Devotee

5 Reasons Your Great Gatsby Themed Wedding Is Doomed

I like the Bloggess's Rules for Life.

Ugh, the whole fake geek girls thing is so frustrating.

Here's an update on that airport diamond heist.

Morning Coffee (5/8/13)

This is really important: My marvelous boss Maureen Johnson wrote about gendered book covers and hosted a contest for gender-flipped covers of well-known books. The results were pretty amazing.

Headline I did not expect to see this morning: Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard Star in David Bowie Video

There exists a news broadcast in Latin. Why didn't anyone TELL me?

This slideshow of Gatsby covers is great.

The trailer for the new season of The Killing makes me ridiculously happy.

The Cinderella cast album is out this week, and you can listen to it streaming here. I saw the show last month and loved it. Highly recommended!

Warner Bros. is making a new D&D movie, so . . . that's a thing that is happening.

Terrifying Vintage Workplace Safety Posters From the Netherlands

Morning Coffee (5/7/13)

Seriously. Did anyone actually read The Great Gatsby? Because it's getting hard to tell.

"(In fact, some of the knights in the Vale speak with Welsh accents, which, Jesus.)" Amazing.

Old news I'd missed: Kelly Clarkson is making a Christmas album!

Armor And Anxiety: Tony Stark Is The New Captain America

Huh: Hollywood conservative unmasked as notorious Holocaust revisionist

How Scandal became the perfect distillation of America’s political nightmares

Why Do NPR Reporters Have Such Great Names?

I must admit I'm all in favor of banning terrible baby names. Yay New Zealand.

Morning Coffee (5/6/13)

Here are the Edgar Award winners. Yay Code Name Verity!

Read Carrie Raisler on the new online versions of One Life to Live and All My Children.

Ugh, fandom, be better: How to Kill a Vampire (Series)

Watch the short film that John Noble made with his daughter and a bunch of the Fringe crew.

I have to try this ice cream bread thing.

The Stuff We Don't Normally See

Penguins' Explicit Sex Acts Shocked Polar Explorer

Solving Equation of a Hit Film Script, With Data

Morning Coffee (5/3/13)

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. Glen Weldon has a guide for you.

This British romance writer is 105 and still writing. Awesome.

Tumblr of the day: COSMARXPOLITAN. Yes, like Cosmo, except Marxist historical figures. Okay, the audience might be somewhat limited for that one, but I find it delightful.

I kind of desperately want to make an Oreo blanket.

Speaking of, Cookie Hound may be my new favorite site.

NPR Program or Rihanna Song Labeled "Explicit"?

Aw, Adam Yauch is getting a playground named after him.

And finally, to mark Iron Man 3 release day, let's enjoy the evolution of Gwyneth Paltrow's crazy clothes. Happy Friday!

Morning Coffee (5/2/13)

Eeee! The Civil Wars are releasing a new album!

What happened to Hollywood's portrayal of female journalists?

We DO need some GChat etiquette standards.

We've got our first hard evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown.

Thank you, Claire Messud.

Whoa: Play Tetris forever.

Who really lives at One Hyde Park?

In case you missed this, as I did, Stephen Colbert and Alan Cumming took on "Accidental Racist." The results are as delightful as you'd think.

Morning Coffee (5/1/13)

Wow. It's May already.

Oooh, British series The Fall is coming to Netflix at the end of the month.

You're probably saying "Khaleesi" wrong. (According to the guy who invented Dothraki.)

25 Signs You're Addicted to Diet Coke (That one was sent to me by Marisa Roffman of Give Me My Remote. Today's her birthday. Go read her site!)

Here is a very long, very interesting interview with Robert Silvers, who has edited the New York Review of Books for fifty years.

Hummus Is Conquering America

I just love this sentence: "Hip-hop performance artist Riff Raff plays a Floridian art dealer named Jamie Franko, in a multi-layered meta reference to James Franco, who played a Riff Raff knockoff in Spring Breakers as well as a self-referential character in ABC's daytime soap General Hospital."

Ooh, read about the excavation of Cologne's medieval Jewish quarter.

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