Morning Coffee (1/31/14)

Happy Friday! How is it the last day of January already??

As someone who is probably not planning to watch the Super Bowl, I actually agree that nobody cares that you're not watching the Super Bowl.

Whee, the delightful Rainbow Rowell has a new book deal!

UConn’s New Mascot is AN ADORABLE PUPPY, YAY!

This headline wound up meaning something less interesting than I'd first hoped: Wolverine Ice Dancing Contingent Leads USA to Sochi

EW's "deep dive" into the The Fault in Our Stars trailer is surprisingly witty and fun.

House Hunters: 7 Mini Games You Can Play While Watching the Show

Hilarious book comic: "We are classics!"

Literary Valentines For The Romantic Reader In All Of Us

How To Tell If You’re In A Hemingway Novel

Morning Coffee (1/30/14)

Hanna Rosin has an interesting piece on Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

Fascinating: The State of Our Inbox

I really need to check out DuoLingo.

Moving and important from my friend Sarah: My Child with a Disability Is Not My Hero

Hooray for Joan Watson: Why well-rounded Asian-American characters matter

Aww, I love ice dancing and these two teams in particular.

Everyone Who Claims “I Hate To Be That Guy” In Fact Derives Dark and Terrible Joy From It

Questions Brought On By The I, Frankenstein Trailer That Were Not Answered By I, Frankenstein Eo Ipso

Morning Coffee (1/29/14)

I'm sleepy because I stayed up past my bedtime watching the State of the Union coverage. I know, I know, I have a wild life.

And apparently thinking about how tired you are is bad for you, because of course it is.

Here's an interesting (and tragic) read on the Super Bowl and sex trafficking.

Apparently the stethoscope is on its way out. Huh.

All of Earth's Active Space Missions, in One Cool Infographic

Fair, BuzzFeed, fair: 15 U.S. Olympians Posing With A Siberian Husky Puppy Is The Cutest Thing You’ll See Today

Heh: What City Should You Actually Live In? (Revised Version)

Welcome to Crime and Punishment and Bikram

The Onion: 6-Day Visit To Rural African Village Completely Changes Woman’s Facebook Profile Picture

Morning Coffee (1/28/14)

Sad, if not wholly unexpected, news: Pete Seeger has died.

AMC has released a list of theaters that will have the Veronica Mars movie. Tickets go on sale on Valentine's Day!

The ALA has announced its youth media award winners for the year.

Ronan Farrow's MSNBC show will premiere on February 24th.

Check out Lana Del Rey's amazing "Once Upon a Dream" cover for Maleficent.

XKCD on global warming

Amazing: Statements That Can Be Easily Read As Compliments Without Being Lies

NYT Magazine's Hillary Cover Makes No Sense: A Brief Scientific Chat

Morning Coffee (1/27/14)

The White House is doing a real (online) Big Block of Cheese Day, and they got Bradley Whitford and Josh Malina for the video.

Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Dylan Matthews, and Melissa Bell are founding a new publication at Vox.

This quick video interview with Sleepy Hollow's Tom Mison is basically the most charming thing I've ever seen.

Ooh, they made an arrest in that Goodfellas Lufthansa robbery.

Oh, Blackberry. Pentagon says 'absolutely no new orders have been placed' for BlackBerry phones.

Heh: FiOS customer discovers the limits of “unlimited” data: 77TB a month

Utah is Ending Homelessness by Giving People Homes

I second all of this about Fangirl.

Morning Coffee (1/24/14)

Happy Friday!

The Vampire Diaries celebrated its 100th episode last night, and we over at Vampire-Diaries.net put together a list of 100 reasons why we love it.

Oreo is launching two new flavors. I am cautiously intrigued.

Colin Donnell is headed back to Broadway. In uniform. Because the universe loves me this week.

Here's the first trailer for Salem, which looks really ridiculous in a way I hope will be fun. (Plus, Seth Gabel.)

Ralph Lauren has some interesting ideas about what Olympians should wear.

However, the Norwegian curling uniform is DELIGHTFUL.

Apparently Big Bird was lying and birds don't sleep in nests. I feel so betrayed.

The Onion: Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure

Baby otters!

23 Sexy Actors Who Could Serenade You To Sleep - whatever, shut up, it's Friday. Like this isn't the hard-hitting news you want to be reading right now.

Morning Coffee (1/23/14)

Hey marshmallows, Jason Dohring made a video asking you to vote for Veronica Mars in the MTV Movie Brawl. I'm basically showing it to you because his hair looks so good, but hey, go vote.

Lessons of the Bob McDonnell Scandal

A journalist spoiled Jennifer Lawrence on season three of Homeland and her reaction was perfect. As was Damian Lewis's. (Warning: This video will also spoil you on season three of Homeland.)

Lions and donkeys: 10 big myths about World War One debunked

Classic Literature Floorplans

If you're tired of looking at snow, my father recommends these Breathtaking Photographs of Severe Summer Weather.

Choose Your Own P.G. Wodehouse Adventure

The Onion, funny 'cause it's true: Woman Takes Short Half-Hour Break From Being Feminist To Enjoy TV Show

Morning Coffee (1/22/14)

Wow. “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”

Till death do us part: The forgotten US victims of forced marriage

Bosnia Opens Library to House Ancient Manuscripts

Take a look at life in the coldest city in the world.

Here's the second part of the Fug Girls' Sleepy Hollow costume series.

13 Famous Authors’ Mugshots

How To Tell If You Are In A Brontë Novel

The Onion: Report: Imagine How Good It Would Feel To Just Crawl Back Into Bed Right Now

Morning Coffee (1/21/14)

Sad news: Conductor Claudio Abbado has died.

This this this: It’s Elementary, Sherlock: How the CBS procedural surpassed the BBC drama

Ha. Candy Crush is trying to copyright the word "candy," more or less.

The Fug Girls visited the Sleepy Hollow costuming department.

Important: "If you want to be in fandom, you gotta figure out the healthy way for you to engage in the discussion anyway."

A few of my favorites are among these overlooked books by famous authors.

How did toast become the latest artisanal food craze?

Miniature world food art

Morning Coffee (1/20/14)

Happy Monday! Some of you have a holiday today, I hear. (I do not. Ah well.)

If you missed or would like to relive Lifetime's new Flowers in the Attic movie, the incomparable Cleolinda put together a bunch of tweets about it. (Disclosure: I appear in that piece a lot.)

Apparently they're making a sequel to the Tyra Banks/Lindsay Lohan masterpiece Life-Size. Huh.

Whoa. Check out this dramatic Olympics promo narrated by Game of Thrones's Charles Dance.

I realize this should be alarming but my first thought was "Cool!" Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It

You Can Now Send Someone You Temporarily Like A 'Bachelor' Bouquet

My friend Glenna has some great New Year's advice for knitters.

Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

The Onion: Unemployed, Miserable Man Still Remembers Teacher Who First Made Him Fall In Love With Writing

Morning Coffee (1/17/14)

Happy Friday!

Need Valentine's cards? Check out these pretty ones to benefit ShelterBoxUSA, which is a great charity I've worked with.

TV news you need today: Showtime has picked up a show starring Joshua Jackson, Dominic West, Maura Tierney, Ruth Wilson, and Julia Goldani Telles, and Netflix has one starring Kyle Chandler.

I don't like Pizza Hut, but I am all for by-the-slice delivery becoming a general thing.

Professor discovers previously unpublished Mary Shelley letters

East Lothian's Broxmouth fort reveals edge of steel

The 5 Best Punctuation Marks in Literature

Famous Movie Quotes as Charts

6 Tips for Editing Your Life List

Morning Coffee (1/16/14)

Google has a gorgeous doodle today for Dian Fossey's birthday.

If you missed Jimmy Fallon and Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" parody "Gov. Christie Traffic Jam," you probably want to watch that.

Exciting news for Veronica Mars fans: Rob Thomas is making an online spinoff at the CW about Ryan Hansen trying to make a spinoff. That sounds delightful.

And here's a great interview with Jason Dohring, who plays Logan Echolls.

Meet the Woman Giving Cards Against Humanity a Makeover

Should ‘Women’s Fiction’ Have Its Own Category?

What's wrong with the "Do What You Love" mantra.

I'm right with her with most of these: "I never know when anything is about abortion, so now I just generally assume most songs are unless told otherwise."

Morning Coffee (1/15/14)

The Strange Case of the "F Gwenifill" Tweets, Solved

Huh: Gillian Anderson is co-writing a sci-fi book series.

Super Bowl news you need: Tom Hiddleston will be in a tux.

The Power of Mia and Ronan Farrow’s Virtual Booing of Woody Allen

A Few Lessons About Twitter, Cancer And Publishing

This Is Not About Texting: A Story of Movies, Men and Violence

Georgian chocolate-making kitchen uncovered at Hampton Court Palace

The ballad of the Romanian shepherd

Morning Coffee (1/14/14)

Today in "my friends say smart things," my friend Stacia: The Golden Globes’ race problem: Why awards shows matter

And my friend Alyssa: The Golden Globes, Woody Allen, And How Awards Shows Can Honor Artists Who Have Done Horrible Things

My friends Red and Vee edited A Visitor's Guide to Mystic Falls (a book of essays about The Vampire Diaries) and now you can read the introduction for free.

This is beautifully written and so true: Chris Christie and Pulling the Red Handle

Price Peterson recaps the Golden Globes. (With lots of funny pictures.)

Fox is making a Magic: The Gathering movie.

The Tourist

“Dumbest Thing Ever”: Scribbling in the Margins of Dan Brown’s Inferno

Morning Coffee (1/13/14)

Happy Monday!

Here are all the Golden Globes winners.

Look at the Veronica Mars movie poster! I love it.

Outlander fans, did you see the first trailer released over the weekend?

I don't do this here often, but if you didn't watch new comedy Enlisted on Friday, I really really really think you should. Watch it free right here.

The Murderer and the Manuscript

Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet

Let's Be Real: Online Harassment Isn't 'Virtual' for Women

This site isn't new, but a friend just showed me Unfuck Your Habitat and I'm kind of loving it.

Morning Coffee (1/10/14)

Happy Friday!

You probably want to start your Friday with Ringo Starr's Powerpuff Girls music video.

Interesting: Steve McQueen (the British one) and the BBC are making a drama series about the black experience in Britain.

Well, this is quite the cast.

The Bitter Feud That Gave Us the Brontosaurus

I'm not sure how "forgotten" some of these women are, but these eyeshadows based on historical women are awesome.

Aww, nifty: What Harry Potter book covers from all over the world look like

18 Things Women [or anyone, really] Shouldn't Have to Justify

Every Felony Committed in Decemberist Albums

Morning Coffee (1/9/14)

Would you like to hear Jamie Bamber narrate The Bane Chronicles? Of course you would.

Department 56 (the Christmas village company) is making Downton Abbey!!!

The Bridge (the original one) is finally coming to Hulu and I am so excited.

Salem continues to look ridiculous and I can't wait.

Fascinating: Remote Control: Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, and the Spectacles of Female Power and Pain

Written Off: Jennifer Weiner's Quest for Literary Respect

Some of the Earliest Maps of Stonehenge, Made by a Druid-Obsessed English Vicar

Permission to Play Devil's Advocate Denied

Morning Coffee (1/8/14)

YOU GUYS. The awesome Stephanie Perkins is editing an anthology of YA holiday love stories that includes a whole bunch of authors I adore and I AM SO EXCITED.

I agree with practically all of this and it makes some great points: The Decline and Fall of the Book Reviewing Empire

Here's an interesting profile of one of my senators, Kelly Ayotte.

Ronan Farrow, Reluctant TV Star

A town is briefly changing its name in honor of the Game of Thrones DVD release. Hee.

Hery Rajaonarimampianina and the global leaders with the longest names

How Corpses Helped Shape the London Underground

The Sliding Scale of Wolf Sentience and Morality in Disney Films

Morning Coffee (1/7/14)

Make sure you check out today's Zora Neale Hurston Google doodle.

For Prostitutes Jailed in China, Forced Labor With No Recourse

Reindeer herds in danger as Australia's mining boom comes to Sweden

Move over, Stephanie Plum: The World’s Best Bounty Hunter Is 4-Foot-11. Here’s How She Hunts.

Tumblr recommendation of the day: Fandom: Like Fine Wine

Hee: The Worf of Wall Street

Speaking of, a North Carolina politician resigned in Klingon.

The Puppy Bowl apparently has penguin cheerleaders this year.

Morning Coffee (1/6/14)

Sad news: Phil Everly (of the Brothers) has died.

As has Alicia Rhett, who played India Wilkes in Gone with the Wind.

This awesome kids is petitioning American Girl for a disabled doll.

Here's last week's big snowstorm as seen from space.

I also love the snowstorm New Yorker cover.

Japanese royals pose for rare family photo for New Year

Oh, England: Boris Johnson must apologise over Beatles claim, says Liverpool mayor

17 Struggles of Having a Common Name

Morning Coffee (1/3/14)

Happy Friday!

If you missed it late last night, here's the Veronica Mars movie trailer.

Inside the Design of the New Times Square New Year's Eve Ball

Fascinating: The Quest for a Natural Sugar Substitute

Nice: The Church has approved Mayan language Mass.

I have never before felt I had so much in common with Sarah Hyland.

If Lisa Frank Designed the Game of Thrones House Sigils

What Would Lorelai Gilmore Do?

Minimalist Disneyland Posters

Morning Coffee (1/2/14)

The Pop-Cultural Year That Was: A Reading Guide

20 Opulent and Bizarre Celebrity Instagrams From New Year’s

Adorable tiny Princess Estelle, on skis.

Happy birthday, The Toast!

That's now Dame Angela Lansbury to you.

Keira Knightley, feminist.

RIP: All the Stories I Never Wrote

We Have the First Weather Forecast for a Super-Earth

Morning Coffee (1/1/14)

Happy New Year! Sorry so late - I got up and started drinking coffee and reading a book and completely forgot to post.

Lord Kitchener will be on the two pound coin, because seamless joins are important. And, you know, other reasons.

Almost Human fans, here are some great behind-the-scenes photos of the sets.

Aww: Orphaned polar bear cub bonds with teddy bear

The Madame Tussaud of the American Colonies Was a Founding Fathers Stalker

Old, but I just came across it and was delighted: Shit Book Snobs Say: Translations

Best Justified GIFs of 2013

There Is a Book Inside of You

Guess the Book from Its Library of Congress Subject Keywords!