Morning Coffee (3/23/18)

We made it to Friday! Time for happy links.

ICYMI, yesterday I recommended Love, Simon.

Michelle Obama’s Portrait Is So Popular, the Museum Moved It to a Bigger Room

Hahahaha: Ambridge Analytica: the spoof account that’s combine-harvesting data

I love this: Mysterious Road Signs to Fictional Places Have Appeared in Didcot, England

Important information: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's "Best" Scrunchies Are From Switzerland

Very excited to watch this: 'Jamestown': Preview the New Period Drama from 'Downton Abbey' Producers

This Woman Wrote Her Novel At A Tire Store And Now They Are Her Biggest Fans

These are very cute: 14 Egg-ceptional Easter Egg Nail Art Ideas

Hallmark to debut 34 new Christmas movies in 2018

How Well Do You Know Your Generic Network Dramas? (Embarrassingly well.)

This Post Is Literally Just Celebrities Holding Dogs

Morning Coffee (4/5/17)

A Child Soldier Sees His Mother After 6 Years. But Why Doesn’t He Speak?

Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel

Egypt's president is a bloodthirsty dictator. Trump thinks he's done a "fantastic job.”

What a shock: Gorsuch's writings borrow from other authors

I'm sure this is a shock as well: Donald Trump Revokes Order That Protects Women in the Workplace

Gorsuch refusing to meet with female senators of color is quite something: Merrick Garland Isn’t the Only Reason the Democrats Should Filibuster Gorsuch

National Archives orders Trump not to delete tweets

Trump Isn’t Nixon: Nixon read books, for one thing.

A Rabbi Walks Into a Bar — and Enforces the Law

!!! GP reveals his 30-year secret life as Archers character Robert Snell

I think Todd's right about Bones here: Bones was satisfying junk-food TV that tried — and failed — to be so much more

A Roman Sarcophagus Is Rescued from Humble Duty as a Flower Pot

Morning Coffee (5/16/14)

First, some Jill Abramson links, because it's important:

Ken Auletta keeps having the best scoops.

I Sort of Hope We Find Out That Jill Abramson Was Robbing the Cash Register

Woman at the Top of the Masthead

Exclusive: New York Times Internal Report Painted Dire Digital Picture

And now your regularly scheduled happy Friday:

My friend Faythe has some good recommendations for YA novels with diversity.

Um: Morrissey invited to take guest role in BBC Radio 4's The Archers

If We Talked About Architecture Like We Talk About Writing

This early and accidental baseball picture is awesome.

I Just Ate Fruit for the First Time and It Kind of Sucked

I love reading about what people read. Here's Mallory Ortberg.

Observations From My Dad Upon Finally Watching The Devil Wears Prada Last Night

Morning Coffee (2/12/14)

TCM is airing a Shirley Temple marathon on March 9th.

Hugh Jackman will host this year's Tony Awards.

These Lego Olympic moments are great.

Ooh, a cider tap room is coming to Boston.

A show in which Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham are the same person? Sign me up.

How Pluto explains the solar system

Here's the Duchess of Cornwall with an original Archers cast picture, just because it makes me happy.

It’s A Bunch of Years After The War And Everything Is Different

Morning Coffee (4/2/13)

Everyone survive yesterday okay?

Happy Birthday, Carl Kasell

Want the story behind that amazing Vampire Diaries reference on The Good Wife the other night? Here you go.

Should children learn cursive?

I am all in favor of adaptations of Danish crime shows, though really, I'd rather they just made the Danish show available.

Hmm: Gender Questions Arise in Obituary of Rocket Scientist and Her Beef Stroganoff

The Nightmare of the West Memphis Three

Heh: Citing Exhaustion, Kim Jong-un to Stop Threatening World on Weekends

This will only be funny to, like, three of you, but: The Real Archers Omnibus

A Remake I Actually Want & Other Entertainment Links

I am usually skeptical about remakes of things I like. I am absolutely nothing but enthusiastic about the prospect of a Firth/Mulligan My Fair Lady.

The Incredible Shrinking TV Season

MSNBC should ditch the weekend trash shows.

There are not enough women in the TV industry.

The epic Dawson's Creek rewatch at HelloGiggles continues.

I am SO SICK of the online marketing nonsense on The Archers.

A Brief History of the Crossover

I greet any "new Star Trek series" rumors with a lot of skepticism, but here you go.