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 (3/26/13)

Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day will be April 9th!

IRS calls 'Star Trek' parody video a mistake

I'm not even that huge an Iron Man fan, but aww, Pepper stuff gets me every time. (That link goes to a still from the new movie. Just mentioning in case anyone is super conscientious about spoilers.)

Seth Gabel is returning to Arrow, and you can see some episode stills now.

Steph Pearl-McPhee contemplates what knitters can be expected to know.

There is no word for this story but "adorable:" Pope Francis calls Buenos Aires kiosk to cancel newspaper subscription

Presented without comment: Essex school bans triangular flapjacks after injury

Ooh, Grigory Chkhartishvili (a.k.a. Boris Akunin) is writing a history of Russia.