Morning Coffee (8/7/17)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

'Human life is more expendable': why slavery has never made more money

Sigh: An anti-immigrant group mistook empty bus seats for women wearing burqas

Italy’s ‘Lord of the Spies’ Takes On a Migration Crisis

Republican Shadow Campaign for 2020 Takes Shape as Trump Doubts Grow

This was both fascinating and moving and I kind of want to write a novel about it: The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe

Ooh: Get a behind-the-scenes first look at Broadway’s Frozen musical

Somehow Women Still Make Up Less Than a Third of Speaking Characters in Top U.S. Movies SOMEHOW.

Nicole Chung talked to John Cho and it's great, as you'd expect.

I promise this is more interesting than it sounds: The Secret Life of the City Banana

Morning Coffee (8/24/16)

Wow, there's a... lot here: Bernie Sanders' New Group Hits Major Trouble on the Launchpad

Saying Donald Trump is totally unlike mainstream Republicans could be the best way to beat them

This is great: Jimmy Kimmel asked Clinton to read Trump quotes with a straight face. She had to refuse one.

Deutsche Bank’s $10-Billion Scandal

Okaaaaaay: You may think the world is falling apart. Steven Pinker is here to tell you it isn't.

!!! Yes, please, put John Cho on my TV regularly: USA Network Developing Con Artist Drama Starring ‘Star Trek’s’ John Cho

The hunt for medieval kings

Heh: The Exact Moment Amal Clooney Realized She Settled

The alternate universe of ‘Fringe’ beat us to ‘Batman v Superman’

I would watch a movie about these retirees turned shipwreck hunters.

Morning Coffee (7/22/16)

It's Friday and BOY do we need some happy distracting links this week.

First, me elsewhere: It's Star Trek week at Insatiable Booksluts so I wrote you an explainer about the new show.

Now in the name of Friday happiness this is going to become a John Cho appreciation blog for a bit. No, seriously, I have three interviews with him bookmarked and I swear they are all worth reading and DELIGHTFUL and he is now my favorite:

You Haven’t Seen Everything John Cho Can Do

John Cho on representation and his concerns with gay Sulu

John Cho, Sulu of ‘Star Trek Beyond,’ Navigates a Beckoning Universe

And... well, let's just look at this for a while.

Okay, moving on to non-Cho-related content. This is a real section on the real NBC Olympics site: Puppies and Rio 2016 Olympians

Also: Royal romances that began at the Olympics

Sometimes TV is on my side: John le Carré’s ‘The Spy Who Came In From The Cold’ To Be Developed As Limited Series By Paramount TV & Ink Factory

AND Tara Lipinski is producing a figure skating drama for Hulu.

My friend Jonny got married and the Internet got very excited.

Let's all run away and buy a castle.