Showing posts with label The Royal We. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Royal We. Show all posts

Friday, March 24, 2017

Morning Coffee (3/24/17)

I... well. Who knows what's going on with anything at this point, really? But I can offer some Friday Happy Links if you'd like a distraction.

I WANT TO GO THERE: There’s now a spy-themed bar in London where you have to crack codes to get cocktails

I wish this had been the most important political news of the week: This Adorable Pup Named Biden Just Got To Meet Former VP Joe Biden

Churchill trailer!!

New emoji are coming!

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society cast is looking INCREDIBLE.

Ooh: Stunning 'new' cloud formations captured in updated atlas

Amazon is making a Victoria Woodhull movie with Brie Larson! (She was the first female presidential candidate, in 1872.)

Butterbeer ice cream?!?!

Let's have a The Royal We party.

Or run away to the Isles of Scilly.

I'm not convinced by this birthday cake mimosa idea but... you know, I'd try it.

The British Library's Medieval Manuscripts Blog takes a look at some Beauty and the Beast-adjacent holdings.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

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"

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Morning Coffee (10/20/15)

Very exciting Lauren Graham-related news part one: THEY'RE REVIVING GILMORE GIRLS. THIS IS FOR REAL.

And part two: She and Mae Whitman are adaption the Fug Girls' delightful novel The Royal We!!! I am beside myself.

Plans for permanent crime museum in London Let's go to London!

More Dragon Tattoo books are coming. (I haven't read the new one yet so I'm not sure how I feel about this specifically, but I'm always wary of new authors continuing series by dead authors.)

Ooh, interesting: Mummies May Have Been Scattered Across Bronze Age Britain

13 Rules for Owning a Castle

My cousin has Turkish towels and I was skeptical but THEY ARE GREAT.

Heh. The Onion, but just barely: Man With No Real-Life Career Goals Knows Exact Job He’d Want In Harry Potter Universe

Finding Work/Life Balance in the Face of the Unexpected

Poems I Have Misunderstood