Morning Coffee (9/8/17)

It's Friday, so let's have some lighter links! Back to the miseries of the world tomorrow, I promise.

Prince George started school! SO CUTE.

The Man Who Invented Christmas, with Dan Stevens as Dickens and Christopher Plummer as Scrooge, looks more insane than I'd dreamed and now I'm pretty excited for it!

Ooh, trailer for the new Magic School Bus show! Yes, that's Lin-Manuel Miranda singing, because the man apparently doesn't need sleep.

Perhaps your Friday would be improved by ogling Matt Bomer's Todd Snyder ads. It's A LOT.

I want to go there: China’s Seaside Library Mimics the Rhythms of the Ocean

Whoa: World’s tallest sandcastle rises in Germany

Look at these amazing hotel bathrooms.

12 Cozy Blankets You'll Wanna Snuggle Under All Year Long

These Disney Villain Lip Smackers Will Make You Very Excited For Halloween

Awww: Sophie Turner Basically Just Adopted Her Own Direwolf

Morning Coffee (6/5/17)

Me elsewhere: Here's the week's TV news.

Here is the story you need to start your Monday: Hero Pitbull Uses Doggy Door to Save Neighbors from Violent Home Intruders

Indian teens pick up the phone to save their friends from child marriage

Hillary Clinton Must Not Be Silent

"The reason we don’t worry much about furious Clinton supporters is that no one’s afraid of them."

This is quite something: God and the Don

The Bullshitter-in-Chief

The Loneliness of Donald Trump

Silicon Valley’s basic income fans should spare a minute to defend the actual safety net

Aaah, the trailer for The Last Tycoon is super pretty.

Morning Coffee (5/5/17)

I think we all need some happy Friday links this week.

Good news!!! Hillary Clinton to launch political group as soon as next week

Also! You can now buy a new story by Rainbow Rowell and help the ACLU!

This is a fun interview (by Andrew Rannells!) and your Friday could probably be improved by looking at his face: Matt Bomer: The King of Summer TV

What the world needs now: Dorie Greenspan Gets a New York Times Magazine Column and It’s All About Dessert

I assume you want to see Justin Trudeau dressed as a firefighter (kinda).

In Praise of Agatha Christie's Accidental Sleuths

This is GREAT for those of us who like poring over genealogical tables in history books: Royally Connected

Speaking of, Princess Charlotte had her birthday this week and she's very cute.

The Most Ridiculous Jeans Styles of the Year, Ranked

Let's go! New 'Downton Abbey' Exhibit Lets You Walk Through Mrs. Patmore's Kitchen and More

Morning Coffee (9/20/13)

Happy Friday!

Pope Francis did a huge, fascinating interview in which he suggested some quite liberal views. (I mean, for a pope.)

Here are the National Book Awards fiction and nonfiction longlists.

Matt Bomer is going to play Montgomery Clift.

West Wing fans, this is not a drill: Allison Janney performed "The Jackal" on the Arsenio Hall Show the other night.

Maru has a new kitten!

I love old maps with sea monsters.

And this cat wears a bow tie and works in a Russian library.

Rubik's Cheese Cube!

This Is How Many Kids Jennifer Aniston Has in a Parallel Universe

The Bloggess is always a fun read, but this entry was particularly delightful.

If you like White Collar, you should watch this immediately.

GETTING SNUGGLY WITH MATT AND TIM.

Morning Coffee (1/18/13)

Fringe is ending tonight. I am not ready. But if you need to kill time until the finale starts, my friend Marisa has been posting lots of great interviews with the cast and J.H. Wyman this year. I've already linked to a few, but not all, so check them all out here.

Also worth a read today: TV Guide's four-part Fringe oral history. Start here.

Pauline Phillips, a.k.a. Dear Abby, passed away on Wednesday. The New York Times obituary is a work of art. Also: 10 Weird And Wonderful Dear Abby Columns

Read this if you've been following the story: Manti Te'o in his own words

Whoa: FX is splitting into comedy and drama channels.

Matt Bomer Designs 'White Collar' Inspired Line

Take A Minute To Watch The New Way We Make Web Headlines Now

Yeahhh.... Author of novel attacking lack of academic integrity runs essay-writing service.

Morning Coffee (1/8/13)

I've never really watched soaps, but the online revival of One Life to Live and All My Children is huge, huge news.

And so is Warner Bros. finally licensing eight shows (including Fringe and The West Wing) to Netflix.

I don't really care about Superman, but I care about Superman with a voice cast of Matt Bomer, John Noble, Stana Katic, and Molly Quinn.

Richard Ben Cramer, political reporter and author of What It Takes, has died.

One of these will be the next Olympic sport.

Fascinating and heartbreaking: The Children Who Went Up in Smoke

Oh my gosh, it's a Hulk stapler.

"For a sport timed down to the thousandth of a second and measured in millimetres, Formula One seems to be finding it surprisingly difficult to get to grips with a calendar." Heh.

Morning Coffee (11/14/12)

Hello! I'm back, theoretically, although I'll be traveling a lot from now through the holidays, so posting will be sporadic. But I should at least manage to post Morning Coffee a few times a week. Thanks for your understanding and support.

(Some of these links are old, but I'm catching up on my bookmarks.)

Crazy: Shark drops out of sky onto golf course

I just like this headline: Hey, Sexy Dino, Show Me Your Feathers

I'm sure this isn't actually the most ridiculous lawsuit ever, but it's up there.

Awesome: VP Biden suggests end cards on films to explain cost of piracy.

These book pumpkins are incredible.

Matt Bomer, Liv Tyler, and Patrick Wilson in a dramatic comedy IN SPACE? Sign me up.

I have mixed feelings about football, but this comic is pretty great.

Twenty Stories That Will Absolutely Run The Week 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Is Released

Morning Coffee (9/25/12)

My reviews of tonight's FOX comedy premieres: Ben and Kate (which I liked) and The Mindy Project (which I did not).

Did blowing into Nintendo cartridges actually work?

Philip Pullman is publishing a Grimm retelling. Interesting.

Collision of interests alert: Matt Bomer was cast in the adaptation of A Winter's Tale (the book wee Olivia was reading in "Subject 13") from Fringe writer/producer Akiva Goldsman.

Emmy winners say the darndest things. Make sure you get to the Damian Lewis slide.

Remember Forest Boy? He disappeared.

Oooh, a missing Turner was found.

Court order via Twitter? Interesting.

Morning Coffee (6/8/12)

IT'S FINALLY FRIDAY.

How to Survive Anything, Except Sexism

Fascinating, horrifying, and very well-done: The Horace Mann School’s Secret History of Sexual Abuse

Remember that Buddhist couple who stayed within a few feet of each other? They got divorced, she remarried, and her husband is dead under somewhat weird circumstances.

Okay, it's Friday, so the rest of these will be fun:

What your Friday needs: Joe Biden Dancing the Hora.

Early Theater of Shakespeare Is Unearthed in London

My friend Andy has The Father's Day Gift Guide Dad Wants You to Read.

Alyssa's doing a rewatch of The Wire, so I'm finally going to watch it.

Wait, what your Friday really needs: 50 Stills from Magic Mike.

New Trailer: Magic Mike

As Vulture put it, this one has less whining, more stripping. Yay.

Morning Coffee (4/20/12)

Busy busy busy. Wait, I said that yesterday, huh? This week is really busy!

I'm so glad this news is finally public, because it's been so hard not to blurt it out everywhere: Holly Black and Cassie Clare are co-writing a middle grade series. WHEEEE.

The one thing you need to know about the Magic Mike trailer is that it has an appalling lack of Matt Bomer. But you should also read Linda Holmes's take.

Leo DiCaprio! Dennis Lehane! Prohibition! It's like we're playing "Movies Kate Likes" Bingo. Does it also involve spies? Or the mob? That would make it perfect.

If FOX puts both Bradley Whitford and Richard Schiff back on my TV regularly and picks up Kevin Williamson's new show, they may be back in the running for "favorite network."

You must read Sarah Rees Brennan on Miss Marple.

Morning Coffee (4/16/12)

It's going to be 92 today. In New Hampshire. In April. Unacceptable.

Get ready for tonight's Castle with this fun interview with Adam Baldwin.

A must-read, to see how far we've come fallen: Having an Abortion When No One Called Me a Slut

Richard Schiff is doing a web series about running for Congress. Awesome.

Maybe we can fund NASA with space whiskey!

Let Us Put an End to Geek Pride

New pictures from Magic Mike!

Matt Bomer on Glee + Anderson Brothers Transformers Audition

Last night I watched Glee for the first time in over a year, because Matt Bomer was guest starring as Cooper Anderson, (very bad, very slightly famous) actor brother of Blaine. The show was still awful, as expected, and Bomer sang, danced, and acted rings around everyone else, again as expected. He seemed to be having a good time, and did a few decent songs that I immediately purchased, and they made the requisite jokes about how he's the most beautiful man on the planet, so, you know, it could have been worse. (There was a shower scene that inexplicably did not include Bomer. Oh well.) It certainly didn't convince me to start watching Glee again, unless and until they manage to rope in another guest star for whom I'll watch literally anything. But my hope is that it brought Bomer's talents to a wider audience, and especially highlighted his musical abilities, because seriously, someone needs to give the man a movie musical or Broadway show or record deal or something already.

Need a little more of the Anderson brothers? Here's Darren Criss and Matt Bomer doing Cooper Anderson's amazingly awful Transformers audition tape.

Matt Bomer & Darren Criss Duet: "Somebody That I Used to Know"

I'm still cursing Glee for pulling me back in, even just for one episode, by casting one of my favorite actors, but WHATEVER. Look, it's Matt Bomer singing. You want to see this.



Now that will probably be in your head all day, too. Sorry. (I woke up singing it.) The episode airs next Tuesday, April 10.

(Via GMMR.)

Glee Promo with Matt Bomer

I gave up on Glee a while back, but will I watch the episode that Matt Bomer's in? OF COURSE I WILL. You win this round, Glee.

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.)

Morning Coffee (3/6/12)

Good morning. I am unhappy with my cereal. I thought you'd want to know. Also, a lot of shows are off this week, so I've been catching up on Cougar Town, and boy, is it amazing. Ignore the title! It's really good! Give it a try!

A bunch of celebrities (including Matt Bomer) did a reading of the play 8 (about Proposition 8 and marriage equality) over the weekend. Head to Alyssa Rosenberg's blog to see what she has to say about it and watch it for yourself. (I haven't had a chance to watch yet, but am planning to do so ASAP.)

Freema Agyeman was cast in the CW's Sex and the City prequel, and I cannot settle on an opinion about this. More Freema on my TV! Yay! But will this show be awful? Probably. Will I watch it anyway? Yes. Does this mean bad things for either Law & Order: UK as a whole or her role on it? Unknown. Do I support the CW hiring real adults who can actually act? Absolutely. Will I watch the whole thing while screeching "Martha/Alesha, what are you doing?" Possibly. See? It's a complex issue.

In other Doctor Who-adjacent casting news that will interest many of you, John Barrowman has been cast in one of the starring roles on Gilded Lilys, an ABC pilot about a family running a luxury hotel in New York City in 1895. This pilot also stars Matt Lauria and may in fact be God's way of convincing me that He does actually exist.

Justified has been renewed for a fourth season, and the A.V. Club says it best:

Considering that Raylan Givens has only shot more and more people with each passing year, expect the next season to just be Olyphant making laconic wisecracks from atop a heap of pill-strewn corpses. Note to FX: We would still watch that.

So say we all.

Take a gander at the cover of Beautiful Redemption, the upcoming fourth book in the YA Southern Gothic series you should be reading.

And finally, two new (or at least new-to-me) Tumblrs for your amusement: The West Men, "the most Emmy-winning TV mashup blog of all time," and the inevitable Hey Girl, Matt Bomer edition.

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.