Morning Coffee (1/11/19)

Time for Friday happy links!

Your feel-good story of the day: Actor Joe Manganiello brings his love of Dungeons and Dragons to kids at Pittsburgh hospital

AMAZING: British Museum realises 'vase' is in fact an ancient mace-head displayed upside down

!! Netflix Orders ‘Shadow And Bone’ Series Based On Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse Novels From Eric Heisserer & Shawn Levy

I am obsessed with this New Yorker cover.

Starbucks’ Newest Drink Tastes Just Like Cookie Butter

Meghan Markle’s Royal Patronages Will Focus on These Four Interests

Heh: Fact-checking the mob song from ‘Beauty and the Beast’

Fug Nation Loves Slippers!

The Best Time of Day to Book Your Next Flight

Let's go! This Book-filled Hotel in Cambridge, England, Is the Ultimate Getaway for Bibliophiles

Morning Coffee (10/26/16)

This piece was very good but reading it was sort of like descending into a nightmare: You’ll Likely Be Reading One Of These 5 Articles The Day After The Election

Welcome to Trump TV: Donald Trump Launches Nightly Facebook Live Show

I hate this whole ridiculous tone: Hillary's list: An old-fashioned campaign plods ahead Yes, her campaign is METHODICALLY DOING THE WORK, HOW DARE THEY.

Everything is very normal: Rep. McCaul: I told Trump Russia was behind the hacks, but he thinks there's no proof

WHAT: After Kelly Preston's son died, Trump said he "worked like hell to try and pick her up."

Well: Donald Trump’s campaign has spent more on hats than on polling

This was a great profile of Andy Borowitz, whose stuff I actually do like.

This has been quite the fall: Kathleen Kane, Former Pennsylvania Attorney General, Is Sentenced to Prison

Oops: Australia Could’ve Fixed a Major Government Website Outage by Turning Router Off and On

Thomas Becket's personal book of psalms 'found in Cambridge library'

Morning Coffee (7/4/16)

Me elsewhere: Here's your TV news for the week!

In honor of the holiday: A Patriotic Presidential Quiz from Gail Collins.

Obama’s most unusual legacy? Being a good dad.

I dutifully read articles about Bitcoin but I still don't really GET it: How China Took Center Stage in Bitcoin’s Civil War

This New Yorker parody is GREAT.

Interesting: Created in Her Image: The conservative politics of Joan Didion

Huh: Lemurs Intentionally Sing Off Key

I don't entirely understand this, but it's still interesting: A Simple Proof From the Pattern-Matching Card Game Set Stuns Mathematicians

Heh: Smash Mouth's Desperate, Endless Twitter Battle

Russians Abroad – Old and New

Which Broadway Couples Are Most Likely To Make It: A Worst-to-Best Ranking

Morning Coffee (10/21/15)

Me elsewhere: I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE ROYAL WE. I am not excited about Truth Be Told.

Oops: Washington Post Accidentally Publishes Biden Presidential Announcement Story (Someone did that with a One Direction story yesterday too. CALM DOWN, EVERYONE.)

If you are inclined to write off the CW and its shows, or interested in how TV works in general, please read this.

This is so important: Why We Are Burning Out in the Arts

Trollope Uncut Comparing those two versions sounds fascinating.

This New Yorker true crime reader look great. I keep going to order it and then remembering I have access to all the stories in the archives. But if you don't, maybe you should order it!

This "Psychic Robot" Can Read Your Mind. Um. Oh goody?

Hee: Honest Harry Potter titles. Harry Potter and the Time Hermione Did Literally Everything is my favorite.

A Sailor’s Annotated Map of the Pacific Illustrates a Tour of Duty During WWII

American Women in the 1900s Called Street Harassers 'Mashers' and Stabbed Them With Hatpins

Things Men in Literature Have Died From is perfect:
"Chaste homoeroticism for a schoolfellow who died in the trenches
That surprise in the corridor
Patriotism"

Morning Coffee (11/17/14)

Me elsewhere: TV news, Haven recap, Bones review.

Every year, my friend Beck writes a hilarious review of the Oprah's gift guide. Here's this year's.

This potential New Yorker documentary series sounds interesting.

Jude Law as an Arthurian villain? Yes please.

So, on New Year's Eve, Ryan Seacrest's show will have Taylor Swift in New York and now Harry Styles in Hollywood. Hee. I hope she plays "Style."

Huh. Greg Berlanti is writing the Oscars.

Fascinating: Some Guy Scooped The Baseball Media On The Biggest MLB Contract Ever

This cannot actually be efficient: Westminster gardener ordered to remove autumn leaves one by one

you guys didnt have to do this!
i honestly would have been fine with just like half a dozen putti
and three or four handmaidens
like a dozen handmaidens max would have been FINE honestly

Morning Coffee (7/9/14)

New Harry Potter story! "Does Hermione Granger prove that a witch really can have it all? (No – look at her hair.)" Hee.

Awesome: George Clooney takes on the Daily Mail.

Wow: The New Yorker is making everything available online for three months and then instituting some sort of metered paywall.

What I Learned From Talking to Tinder’s Justin Mateen About Women

I still haven't watched the Warren Jeffs biopic, but this liveblog is great.

xkcd is so good at what it does.

Yahoo is trying to purchase credibility with the Community renewal

Dirtbag John Milton

Morning Coffee (1/6/14)

Sad news: Phil Everly (of the Brothers) has died.

As has Alicia Rhett, who played India Wilkes in Gone with the Wind.

This awesome kids is petitioning American Girl for a disabled doll.

Here's last week's big snowstorm as seen from space.

I also love the snowstorm New Yorker cover.

Japanese royals pose for rare family photo for New Year

Oh, England: Boris Johnson must apologise over Beatles claim, says Liverpool mayor

17 Struggles of Having a Common Name