Morning Coffee (11/11/14)

Happy Veterans' Day, and thank you to all who have served. The Google doodle for today is cute.

And it's a good day to show you the video from the NatPro race my family participated in to benefit the Veterans' Oasis my dad is involved with at the college where he works. (Well, my brother and his fiancee participated. My parents and I volunteered.)

The new Taylor Swift video is amazing. (And filmed at the Royal Pains house!)

Martha Stewart has some great-looking meatless Thanksgiving recipes.

Ooh, you can stream Kristin Chenoweth's new album.

I want to go to The Last Bookstore.

Whoa: Jennifer Lawrence Hunger Games cake wins gold

"Out of the Woods on a Snowy Evening"

Morning Coffee (6/4/14)

Hunger Games salute banned by Thai military

The end of an era: Winston Churchill's last surviving child has died.

Amazon Is Not a Monopoly or a Monopsony

Perfect: Do Female-Named Hurricanes Need To Lean In?

The cover of My True Love Gave to Me is sooooooo adorable.

What if your phone-a-friend were Angela Merkel?

They've found the first film footage of Dylan Thomas.

Real-life pirates of Penzance attempt Guinness World Record (Sort of. Not actual pirates.)

Morning Coffee (11/22/13)

Happy Friday! This was a very long week, for some reason.

I bet your Friday needs Sesame Street's "The Hungry Games - Catching Fur."

It probably also needs 18 Times That Thor's Tom Hiddleston Was Almost Too Cute To Handle.

In Defense of Adam Levine

I've been wanting a Jane Austen computer game for years. I should try this out.

The Onion: Siblings Gather Around PowerPoint To Hash Out Off-Limits Topics For Thanksgiving

Good to see Bradley Whitford, like the rest of us, is aware that Josh and Donna are married with kids.

11 Indispensable Life Lessons Every Woman Can Learn From 'Anne Of Green Gables'

Oh, Canada. Canadians save shark from choking to death on moose

Friday Distraction: Sesame Street Musical Parodies

Unfortunately, they've disabled embedding on this, but it's absolutely worth your time: Head over to Entertainment Weekly to watch Cookie Monster and Grover do musical parodies of current pop culture including The Hunger Games, The Avengers, Doctor Who, and The Newsroom. Seriously. Grover is the Doctor. Cookie Monster is Will McAvoy. IT'S INCREDIBLE.

Morning Coffee (4/3/12)

Good morning! In case you missed it last night, I wrote something of a spoiler manifesto.

Wildly exciting for, um, a few of us: The first pictures of Bradley Whitford on the set of his new pilot.

Sexist creep of the day: Lee Aronsohn

Copper sounds like it will be really good. I hope.

The Ten Most Sorkin Things in the Trailer for The Newsroom

Parents are getting their kids' writing self-published. Maureen Johnson responds.

A Hunger Games-themed wedding? Um. Romantic?

Morning Coffee (3/27/12)

How is it only Tuesday? How?

Alert: It's World Whisky Day. Please plan your day accordingly.

The Harry Potter books are now available as ebooks for the first time.

Awesome: L.L. Bean has a photographer recreating classic covers for their catalogs this year.

Book removed from Arizona school's curriculum because it contains a Mexican-American character. This is not The Onion.

"Astronaut is not a title one carries for life."

Here's your first look at Matt Bomer in Glee.

People are awful, the Hunger Games edition.

Another argument against recapping. (I have complicated mixed feelings about this whole issue, personally.)

Hunger Games Link Roundup

I know Hunger Games stuff is overwhelming and EVERYWHERE, so I thought I'd pick out a few links I thought were actually worth a look.

The Obligatory Drinking Game

Melissa Anelli, who knows from book adaptations, says this movie is how we should adapt books.

But be careful: If you're female, your opinion may not actually count.

How Hunger Games Built Up Must-See Fever

I don't agree with all of this, but it's hilarious: Kill/Boff/Marry with Peeta and Gale

Morning Coffee (3/9/12)

HAPPY FRIDAY. This week actually went pretty quickly, except then yesterday was awful for basically everyone I know. So I think we're all ready for a weekend.

First, a word on "freedom of speech," since I've seen this come up in several places recently: It's about the government not restricting speech. The Constitution ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT CARE about your supposed right to say nasty things with immunity on someone else's privately-owned Web site. "Freedom of speech" ALSO doesn't mean that you can say whatever you want but no one else is allowed to say that what you said was dumb or mean or wrong. Thank you. Carry on.

The Muppets + The Hunger Games = AWESOME

You must read David Plotz on Mo Willems.

I love when shows make it easy to figure out what music they've used. Cougar Town fans, here you go.

I don't usually post about fanvids, but it's Friday and I've got nothing, so I'm going to suggest you watch this nicely-done Downton Abbey video set to Taylor Swift's "Safe and Sound."

Today's Roundup

Is this going to be a new regular thing? Do I need a more clever title? Possibly. But here are things grabbing my attention today . . .

• Sarah Rees Brennan's parodies are almost as great as her books. Here's The Woman in White.
• Anne Rice wrote her new werewolf main character with Matt Bomer in mind and wants him to star in the potential movie adaptation. I have . . . no idea what to do with that story.
• Whoa. There's going to be an official Doctor Who/Star Trek: TNG crossover comic.
• Jamie Bamber News tells me (and then the preview confirmed) that Bamber's first episode of Body of Proof will air next week. Yay!
• It always makes my day when Hipster John Green Quotes starts posting.
• Here's the full track listing for the Hunger Games soundtrack. I'm pretty excited.

Things I Am Liking Today

Guys, this whole "don't beat myself up for not getting ridiculous amounts of stuff done" thing is hard. This is going to be a process, I can tell. One of the things I do actually want to be doing is blogging more, but I'm going to let myself be more random and chatty if necessarily. So . . . here are some things I am liking right now!

• Suri's Burn Book. I know I am very late to this bandwagon, but I read the whole archives while pretending to watch Transformers the other night, and it is HILARIOUS. I'm completely addicted and want more, now, always.
• Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes. I like him! I like the character! Whee! (No, I will brook none of this nonsense about this being an abomination because the BBC version is out there. There are many, many Holmes adaptations out there. I will like as many of them as I please, thank you very much.)
• Nina Dobrev's dress from the Monique Lhuillier show Saturday. I don't even like bandage dresses, but I'm utterly charmed by this one.
• Zach Levi's continued employment. I still haven't caught up on Chuck, but I enjoy looking at his face and would like it to be on my TV on a show I'm not already behind on.
• Taylor Swift's Hunger Games song/video. I realize I am EXACTLY the target audience for this, but boy, do I love it.
  
  
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