Morning Coffee (2/1/18)

ICYMI, yesterday's Oscar post: The Post

Train Carrying GOP Lawmakers Hits Garbage Truck In Virginia (SOMEONE DIED so the obvious comment isn't, ah, appropriate here.)

F.B.I. Condemns Push to Release Secret Republican Memo

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, C.D.C. Director, Resigns Over Tobacco and Other Investments

Hillary Clinton wrote about her decision in 2008 to punish but not fire someone accused of harassment and it's very well-reasoned and thoughtful. GOOD THING SHE'S NOT IN CHARGE OF ANYTHING, huh?

This sounds... dangerous: Russian jet flies within 5 feet of US Navy plane, Pentagon says

Of COURSE he is: Greg Gianforte, politician who assaulted reporter, to lead communications workshop

Whoa: Japan's Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1 billion deal, create JV

!!! Scientists discover ‘the holy grail of dinosaurs’ in Africa

It's finally happening! Julian Fellowes’ ‘The Gilded Age’ Drama Series Set For 2019 Launch On NBC

Found: An 800-Year-Old Chess Piece

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 (4/22/16)

Happy Friday! Time for some lighter links...

Me elsewhere: We have a trailer for The Girl on the Train and Game of Thrones was renewed, plus your Daily Read.

Whoa! Books by earliest women writers in English on display together for first time

Ooh: The only known footage of Louis Armstrong in a recording studio.

NASA Celebrates Hubble's 26th Birthday With Some Spectacular New Space Porn

The palace released pictures by Annie Leibovitz for the Queen's 90th birthday and they're GREAT. (It didn't strike me until I was typing this that she's the same age as my grandfather; we had a big party for his 90th in February.)

I'm very excited that Sally Wainwright is doing a Bronte sisters drama.

Shirley Temple stamps!

73 Questions with Taylor Swift is delightful; I love her house and I LOVE her delivery of "I am a very spontaneous person." I suspect she is roughly as spontaneous as I am, which is to say not at all.

Some of these sound really good: 17 Cocktails Every “Game Of Thrones” Lover Must Try

Disney Channel is marathoning all its original movies! (Let's be honest: I mostly just care about Rip Girls, which held up surprisingly well when I rewatched it a few years ago.)

I haven't had a chance to dig into Julian Fellowes's Belgravia, but I'm intrigued.

Trailer: Julian Fellowes's Titanic

This is going to have the wittiest drowning people ever, isn't it?



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Is it just me or is Toby Jones in everything recently? Anyway, this will be on ABC on April 14 & 15, just in time for the 100th anniversary. Wheeee.