Afternoon Tea (3/29/19)

Your Friday afternoon probably needs this: Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Martinique to Merveilleuse

Ooh, a radio diary! Blair Braverman And Her Dogs Finish First Attempt At Iditarod

The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child

This is a DELIGHT: Rick Steves Wants to Save the World, One Vacation at a Time

Spring Books Preview: Fiction We Can’t Wait to Read by Sally Rooney, Susan Choi, and Others

Afternoon Tea (11/13/17)

This is quite the story: Teen Girl Posed For 8 Years As Married Man To Write About Baseball And Harass Women

The Forgotten Women Scientists Who Fled the Holocaust for the United States

Ooh: Candid Photos of Julia Child at Work

The Secret Life of the Mall Kiosk Worker

How Picasso Bled the Women in His Life for Art

Morning Coffee (5/19/17)

Okay, time for some happy Friday links. Back to our regularly scheduled insanity tomorrow.

Me elsewhere: Here's the CW fall schedule.

Ooh: Longman-History Today Book Prize 2017: The Shortlist (I want to read them all, obviously.)

The Smithsonian has the hard-hitting headlines we need this week: Spring Brings a Wave of Baby Animals to the Zoo

Neat! New types of coffee, parsnips and roses among 1,700 plants discovered last year

Masterpiece is making a movie that will BE IN THEATERS, and it's - a lot. Elizabeth McGovern! Julia Goldani Telles! Julian Fellowes! Dancing! Secrets!

Delightful: Dutch king reveals double life as an airline pilot for KLM

I'm not a big Airbnb fan, but I'd make an exception for Julia Child's Provencal cottage. Let's go!

I'm excited for this movie too: First Look: Lily James in Mike Newell’s ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’

F Scott Fitzgerald's favourite hotels: party like it's 1929

These Stunning, Less-Visited Castles in Europe Are Straight Out of a Fairy Tale

Morning Coffee (8/30/16)

A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories

The Trump campaign just admitted one of the scariest things about its candidate

I Spent 5 Years With Some of Trump's Biggest Fans. Here's What They Won't Tell You

I have such an aversion to gambling that this piece on what happened with the daily fantasy industry made me physically uncomfortable to read at times, but it's fascinating.

The first part of this L.A. Times true crime investigation is certainly compelling.

Breaking VERY OLD news: Ancestor, Lucy, Died After Falling From Tree

How to Arrange Your Kitchen: According to Julia Child

Are You Smarter than a 19th Century Midshipman? (No.)

Ooh: The secret libraries of history

Hee: Things We Hope Will Happen When Justin Trudeau Meets William, Kate, and the Royal Babies

Morning Coffee (10/4/13)

Happy Friday!

Elsewhere: I wrote about new shows Welcome to the Family, The Originals, and The Millers at TheTelevixen.com.

Huh: Alexander McCall Smith has been commissioned to write a modern take on Emma.

Can the CW save televised sci-fi?

These books scarves are AMAZING.

Check out Julia Child's title brainstorming.

Lost portrait of 17th-century feminist to go on display for first time

Haunted castles!

Pistol, teapot, soap, and satin doublet: an East India Company merchant’s possessions

14 Cats From The 1800s Having A Way Worse Day Than You

Morning Coffee (9/11/13)

The Man Booker Shortlist is out.

X-Files fans: my friend Marisa at Give Me My Remote is doing a great series for the 20th anniversary in which she talks to TV writers about how the show influenced them. The first is with Hart Hanson of Bones.

Headline of the day: Angry moose vandalizes Norwegian school.

The Pope Gets on the Line, and Everyone Is Talking

Ooh, they're restoring Dickens's house.

Here's a great picture of what was happening under Julia Child's kitchen counter.

In case you also hadn't seen it yet, here is Tom Hiddleston gleefully tormenting Cookie Monster, and it's really worth the watch.

81 of Fall TV's Biggest Stars