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