Morning Coffee (4/12/13)

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Awesome news: The NHL is partnering with You Can Play in support of gay athletes.

OOH: The History Channel is developing a Revolutionary War miniseries.

Please wear out your handknits.

Now I want to watch the Golf Channel. And I don't even care about golf, except when it involves pretty footage of Scotland.

Exploring Jessica Fletcher's Closet

Sport Balls Replaced with Cats

"I knew you were Tribbles when you dropped in..."

Baby antelope!

Morning Coffee (4/11/13)

Ooh, check out this illustrated PDF of the Hannibal pilot script.

The Case for Miniseries

I've always thought Earth Hour was dumb, so this was very validating.

How much will Margaret Thatcher's funeral cost? Gosh, I love Datablog.

Smart, Poor Kids Are Applying to the Wrong Colleges

The Great British class calculator: What class are you?

Aww! Cows have best friends and get stressed when they're separated.

Oh dear: Climate change will threaten wine production, study shows

Morning Coffee (4/10/13)

This just went up this morning so I haven't read it yet, but you probably want to read the New York Times Magazine profile of Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin.

Oooh, this archaeological dig in London is so exciting that they're calling it "Pompeii of the north."

Did Margaret Thatcher really invent soft-serve ice cream? (No, but I am demanding a trip to Dairy Queen this weekend and all these Thatcher stories are basically why.)

Why 'Accidental Racist' Is Actually Just Racist

Were you looking for an interactive guide to Thatcher's funeral? Here you go.

Starz continues to pick up shows that sound like they were designed for me.

The Onion: I'm Weighing Whether Or Not I Want To Go Through The Hell Of Appealing To You Idiotic, Uninformed Oafs "by" Hillary Clinton

Not The Onion: Jon Huertas of Castle is releasing an album, and IT INCLUDES A CASTLE/BECKETT SONG. I'm not sure why I find this QUITE so hilarious, but I do.

Morning Coffee (4/9/13)

Happy Free Cone Day!

Margaret Thatcher vs. Pop Culture

Why June Thomas hated Maggie

The BBC is making an Australian origin story drama and a WWI series, because they love me.

Chocolate and slavery in São Tomé and Príncipe

Chainsaw man caught stealing tusk from Louis XIV elephant in Paris

9 Reasons to Be Depressed That You'll Never Marry Adam Levine

I love this sort of thing: Easter pictures from around the world

Morning Coffee (4/8/13)

Breaking news this morning: Margaret Thatcher has died.

Oooh, a Bone Wars movie.

Should you buy a book?

Don't forget that tomorrow is Free Cone Day.

New Imprint to Reissue Forgotten YA Literature

Test your John Le Carre knowledge.

Well, a Nora Ephron documentary could be wonderful or terrible, depending.

TV Guide Magazine's 60th Anniversary Special: The Past, Present and Future of Television

Morning Coffee (4/5/13)

If your DVR cut off the end of The Americans this week, you can watch it online here.

Discovering Your “Brand” of Fantasy

Discovery and its sister channels have unveiled their new programming slate, including the delightfully named Penguins: Spy in the Huddle.

Here is Elizabeth Taylor with a kitten in her pocket.

This parody of Taylor Swift's "22" is great.

Heartwarming Friendship Between a Girl and Her Cat

This makes me want to watch The Name of the Rose.

Downton Abbey jigsaw!

Trailer: Greetings from Tim Buckley

This actually looks . . . good?

Morning Coffee (4/4/13)

A Literary Canon of Dudes

To help combat that: This profile of Kate Atkinson was fascinating and made me want to read all her books immediately.

‘There’s No Turning Back’: My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist

The 5 Shadiest Crimes Ever Pulled Off by Famous Corporations

I hadn't heard of My Brother the Devil until this trailer popped up, but I'm intrigued.

This stupid TV Boyfriends Who Ruin Your Real-Life Relationships slideshow is mainly notable in that MOST OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE TERRIBLE BOYFRIENDS.

‘Happy Endings,’ ‘The Walking Dead’ And Why Broadcast Television Scheduling Is Broken

So. Well. Norway schools reschedule exams to accommodate Justin Bieber concert

Morning Coffee (4/2/13)

Everyone survive yesterday okay?

Happy Birthday, Carl Kasell

Want the story behind that amazing Vampire Diaries reference on The Good Wife the other night? Here you go.

Should children learn cursive?

I am all in favor of adaptations of Danish crime shows, though really, I'd rather they just made the Danish show available.

Hmm: Gender Questions Arise in Obituary of Rocket Scientist and Her Beef Stroganoff

The Nightmare of the West Memphis Three

Heh: Citing Exhaustion, Kim Jong-un to Stop Threatening World on Weekends

This will only be funny to, like, three of you, but: The Real Archers Omnibus

Morning Coffee (4/1/13)

PSA: It's April 1st, so TRUST NO ONE. Including me, apparently, because I'm totally unprepared for Morning Coffee today. (But I promise all my links are real to the best of my knowledge, because I hate April Fool's Day.)

Castle fans should read this interview with EP Andrew Marlowe in preparation for the landmark 100th episode tonight.

And here are some older links I bookmarked but never posted . . .

Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle

The Cossacks are back. May the hills tremble.

Australia's coup culture

The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'

A Fork of One's Own

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