Morning Coffee (11/6/15)

Happy Friday!

Me elsewhere: Haven recap!

Obviously this is good but I also just like the headline: Salt Lake City—Which Is Still in Utah—May Have Just Elected an Openly Gay Mayor

CBS is developing a show about a secret society of spy princesses and it's already my new favorite.

Australia Deploys Sheepdogs to Save a Penguin Colony

I love PR stunts that also actually do good: Adidas Offers Design Resources to Schools That Want to Get Rid of Their Offensive Mascots

I would, of course, totally watch this Sorkin-pitched Pixar movie about talking office supplies.

Justin Trudeau paper dolls!!

Let's go to London! Largest ever exhibition of the Queen's wardrobe planned for her 90th birthday

Or if we can't go to London let's at least look at a slideshow of Duchess Kate's coats. (The green tartan McQueen has always been my favorite.)

Bands are designing tacos for charity, but I really want them to be THEMED.

"Yet Even More Raspberry Sponge
Marzipan whatsits
I Rolled Up A Cake, Paul
Cardamom Battenberg Handfuls"

Morning Coffee (4/7/15)

ISIS is really obsessed with the apocalypse

Fascinating: At Success Academy Charter Schools, High Scores and Polarizing Tactics

The Tehran Symphony Orchestra has been revived.

Headline of the day: Bride abandons wedding after groom can't solve arithmetic problem

"The monster is blue and full of errors." Hahahahaha.

Call the Midwife paper dolls!

Wow: Florida Hotel Wakes Guests by Blaring 'Lion King' Tune "Circle of Life"

“I think the yellow wallpaper looks best,” she said.
“How right you are.”
They were always happy afterwards that they had chosen the yellow wallpaper. It looked so much better than the green had.
– The Yellow Wallpaper

Morning Coffee (8/11/14)

Hi everyone! I think I'm back! Well, sort of. For today I've got some various stray links - some of them now a bit old - that I've collected over the past few weeks. Hopefully we'll be back to normal tomorrow.

I never knew Tom Tierney's name, but I definitely appreciated his work.

How to Get a Job in the '60s: Have Your Husband Incorporate You

I don't know how I never knew there were Royal Diaries movies, but I must see them.

Hee: John Lennon Writes Imagine

I want this amazing hair clip.

100 Actual Titles of Real Eighteenth-Century Novels

Everyone Has Imposter Syndrome Except For You

Morning Coffee (2/28/14)

Happy Friday! Finally.

Six more Cormoran Strike books? Yes please.

Diet Coke Frost? YES PLEASE.

The BBC is making two new Agatha Christie adaptations. Whee.

Scandal paper dolls!

Ooh, new Ben & Jerry's flavors.

This Game of Thrones pop-up book looks gorgeous.

The Onion: Modern Science Still Only Able To Predict One Upcoming Tetris Block

Very important Friday quiz: What Kind Of Drink Are You Going To Need After Work Tonight? (As Eleanor Barkhorn pointed out, this is the most clever BuzzFeed quiz ever because it implies that you should go back and take it again every day.)

Morning Coffee (8/6/13)

Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon) is buying the Washington Post. Wow.

Mystic Seaport has relaunched the Charles W. Morgan whaling ship!

Peter Capaldi wrote to RadioTimes about Doctor Who when he was 15.

Another day, another children's clothing store telling girls they're bad at math.

Yep, Farmer Boy always makes me hungry.

Ooh, check out the history of paper dolls. I love paper dolls, actually.

Fascinating: A Script for the Queen's Speech, in Case of Nuclear War

Faked Photos of WWI Aerial Combat That Really Had People Fooled