Morning Coffee (11/17/17)

This week's Happy Friday links have a lot of Go Fug Yourself but I'm not actually sorry, unless any of you already read their site faithfully and thus have fewer new things to read here.

This is wonderful: Barbie Debuts a Hijab, Thanks to Ibtihaj Muhammad

Chelsea Clinton announces international companion to She Persisted children's book

This is both funny and thoughtful, even if you don't care about Blake Shelton: Blake Shelton Is People’s Sexiest Man Alive? (Real talk: Blake Shelton is not even the sexiest man alive ON HIS OWN TV SHOW, though his reaction quoted in that piece made me like him a little better than I had.)

!!!! 280-Character Tweets Make Tetris Possible on Twitter

Titanic to return to theaters for 20th anniversary (This briefly sent me spiraling because my friend and I went to see it for an anniversary release ALREADY and that CANNOT have been ten years ago, but no, it was FIVE years ago. Are they going to re-release it every five years? This is not necessarily a complaint.)

This happened at the end of LAST week but I wanted to make sure you saw because it's important: Tom Hiddleston Is Literally Walking Around London Cradling a Puppy

Let's go to Italy's new food theme park.

USEFUL and also funny: How to Pluralize Your Last Name on Holiday Cards

Three Gorgeous Cakes for the Holidays

SPARKLY SHOES. (I just got sparkly shoes on clearance for $13 and I'm obsessed and need you all to invite me to holiday parties so I can wear them.)

Morning Coffee (10/27/17)

Time for some happy Friday links!

This xkcd is the MOST ME.

Lulu the CIA dog who wouldn’t sniff bombs is the week’s most adorable internet hero

What the world needs now: Prince William and The Great British Bake Off’s Mary Berry Join Forces

The Queen to open Windsor Castle and Palace of Holyroodhouse for Christmas LET'S GO.

I'm sort of surprised he wasn't ALREADY but this is fun: Frozen's Olaf to debut as a balloon in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Amazing: Barbra Streisand Was So Convinced She’d Be Famous As a Teen That She Hid Her Face at Work

You can — but shouldn’t — play Tetris right on the dash of this Russian truck

Ranking Meg Ryan’s Best Autumnal Rom-Com Outfits

Let's shop for trench coats.

Escape This Wretched Earth With Google's Sweet New Solar System Maps

Morning Coffee (7/6/16)

Oscar Pistorius given six years for Reeva Steenkamp murder I'm glad he's getting prison time, but that is VERY LITTLE prison time.

This is long and difficult to read at times, but so important: My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation

ISIS Seems to Tailor Attacks for Different Audiences

Whoa: Magnets Could Clean Up Oil Spills

"I am so excited to tell you that we’re returning to the question of whether or not Hillary Clinton threw a vase at her husband in the White House."

DON'T DO THIS.

THIS EITHER.

Is 'Tetris' a movie trilogy we legitimately don't need? I mean, probably!

I know I linked to another Oneida story recently, but this one had some new-to-me information, and let's be real, I will probably link to every Oneida story forever: The Polyamorous Christian Socialist Utopia That Made Silverware for Proper Americans

Great House Therapy: Lady Macbeth’s Murderous Mansion of Death

Morning Coffee (11/24/14)

Programming note: Posts may be erratic for . . . the rest of the year, really. I'm traveling a lot, and taking random days off to do things like bake a ridiculous number of cookies, and my schedule is generally out of whack. I'll try to keep getting link posts up MOST days, but it may not be every day, and sometimes it might be later in the day than usual. Thanks for understanding!

Me elsewhere: TV news; Haven recap.

This is my new favorite thing: TV’s geek girls need to rise above being tech support

Sad: The Duchess of Alba has died.

Sigh: ESPN Suspends Keith Law From Twitter For Defending Evolution (Okay, they now say it wasn't because of his opinions [on scientific fact] so was it . . . disagreeing with a coworker?)

Your Monday would probably be helped by the Disneyland cats Instagram account.

I have been calling for 24-hour bookstores for years and I'm glad someone is finally listening.

Oh my gosh. Pumpkin Tetris.

How to Successfully Hijack Your Family's Thanksgiving

25 questions about Band Aid 30's new version of "Do They Know It's Christmas"

How are we feeling about the Peanuts movie trailer? It's . . . much better than I'd feared, really.

Morning Coffee (4/8/14)

Rwanda's Keeper of the Dead

The Border Patrol has a big problem with excessive force

All of Shakespeare's Plays, Converted to 3-Panel Webcomics

Whoa: Tetris on a skyscraper

A Gone with the Wind prequel? Must we?

YA characters don't need to be role models.

Huh. Kate Mulgrew (a.k.a. Captain Janeway) has apparently narrated a documentary about the sun orbiting the earth. So.

Dirtbag Little Women

Morning Coffee (2/27/14)

Ooh, today's John Steinbeck Google Doodle is nifty. (Confession: I have never read John Steinbeck.)

Mixology premiered on ABC last night. It was terrible, so of course Dan Fienberg's review is worth a read.

Authors Sarah Rees Brennan and Jennifer Lynn Barnes say important and interesting things about women, writing, fandom, fanfic, misogyny, and parasocial relationships.

If you're a Veronica Mars fan, check out this adorable video, which aside from being adorable is for a good cause.

Hey Internet, Please Quit With the Happiness Articles

Playing Tetris Can Reduce Urges to Eat, Smoke, Drink

Wow: Paramount Grounds 'Top Gun' Tweeter

Someone is working on... pop musical... TV series?... about Romeo and Juliet, Robin Hood, King Arthur, and Jack the Ripper. Separately, I assume, not together. Still. I have questions.

Morning Coffee (5/2/13)

Eeee! The Civil Wars are releasing a new album!

What happened to Hollywood's portrayal of female journalists?

We DO need some GChat etiquette standards.

We've got our first hard evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown.

Thank you, Claire Messud.

Whoa: Play Tetris forever.

Who really lives at One Hyde Park?

In case you missed this, as I did, Stephen Colbert and Alan Cumming took on "Accidental Racist." The results are as delightful as you'd think.