Morning Coffee (8/10/18)

OKAY, time for some happy Friday links!

This is great! Rashida Tlaib, With Primary Win, Is Poised to Become First Muslim Woman in Congress

Starbucks stores are already receiving Pumpkin Spice Latte supplies, and people think they've figured out the PSL's return date

!! Natalie Dormer joins the Potterverse as A History of Magic narrator

Aah, new The Nutcracker and the Four Realms trailer!

In very different movie news, the Lizzie trailer also looks great.

Wisconsin Just Broke the Record for the World’s Largest Cheeseboard

'Cat Person' breakout writer is back with debut book: Read the first excerpt

Ooh, look at all the cute rainbow things!

Of course it does: So cheesy: Burlington airport has a 7-foot block of cheese and matching maple syrup

Announcing Three New Novels From Annalee Newitz

Morning Coffee (8/13/16)

Here is your most important weekend reading assignment: Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart (It's long, but worth it.)

This Daily Beast Grindr Stunt Is Sleazy, Dangerous, and Wildly Unethical

Gay Olympian Amini Fonua Has Words for the Grindr-in-Rio Journalist

Whoa: Arianna Huffington to leave the Huffington Post

At long last, The Wine Show premieres (for the U.S.) on Hulu today. This interview about it with Matthew Goode is a delight.

Vital and fascinating: My Crazy Year with Trump

“A Honeypot For Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment

Awesome: Goodbye to ‘Honeys’ in Court, by Vote of American Bar Association

OH NO: Brewers Are Running out of Pumpkin for Their Autumn Beers

How Left-Handed Penmanship Contests Tried To Help Civil War Vets After Amputation

Morning Coffee (9/4/15)

HAPPY FRIDAY! And happy three-day weekend, to those who have one! I am planning to mostly stay in my house and catch up on work and gift knitting and maybe bake some cookies, and I'm honestly REALLY EXCITED about it. But I'm going to give you a few extra links today in case I go crazy and SLEEP IN or something on Monday.

"It looks just like Tinder but it's not actually a way for cats to find relationships. It's much more like a Hot or Not for cats."

I suggest you take two minutes out of your day to gaze at Ireland being pretty. (A few comments here: 1. It showed me an Ireland tourism ad before the video. VERY GOOD AD PLACEMENT. LET'S GO. 2. I feel like they're overstating the isolation of the Aran Islands a bit. "One island even has a bank"? One island has a SPAR, with a normal grocery selection and at least an ATM. 3. People do, in fact, get around in those horse carts. It was the only way to get to our B&B when we went.)

This is, in fact, what I want scientists to be working on: longer-lasting ice cream. (I'm not joking. Ice cream is very important to me.)

Royals and Their Dogs

"Lance Corporal Derby XXX was unavailable for comment." (You should click through. Lance Corporal Derby XXX is a SHEEP.)

Because the Hallmark Channel loves me and wants me to be happy, they're doing a new Fall Harvest series of movies.

In other fall news: Here's the Pumpkin Spice Latte Instagram account! If you click through there's a way to get one early.

Here's a great interview with the Fug Girls about The Royal We and more. (If you're a Kindle person and haven't read The Royal We yet, it's currently $3.99. I expected to like it but I LOVED it.)

"The real bishop said: 'My admiration is enormous - if my life depended on it, I couldn't knit a bishop.'"

10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Choose Your Next Book (Related, sort of: Do you guys want book reviews? I kind of want to write book reviews. I don't know. It's September. I want to take on ALL THE PROJECTS.)

7 Inanimate Objects That Are Actively Plotting Against Us (Trust me, it's adorable.)

The Timeless Allure of the Art of Knots

If Alexander Siddig Were Your Boyfriend

Morning Coffee (8/31/15)

Boo: No pumpkin spice lattes until after Labor Day.

Wait, this surprises people? Oh, Iowa, you sweet summer child.

McKinley no more: America's tallest peak to be renamed Denali

I love how cautious this headline is: Two Men Say They’ve Found a Mythical Train of Nazi Gold

This one, however, is WAY TOO INCAUTIOUS: A 500-Year-Old Royal Murder Mystery May Soon Be Solved

Meet the 15-Year-Old Tech Whiz Whose Software Is Turning the Tide Against Internet Hate

Science Says Working With Too Many Men Will Literally Hurt Your Brain

Hands off our comfort reads

Morning Coffee (8/18/15)

I'm all for natural ingredients, but the point of Pumpkin Spice Lattes is the SPICE, not the pumpkin.

"When Edward Thomas joined the Houston Police Department in 1948, he could not report for work through the front door. He could not drive a squad car, eat in the department cafeteria or arrest a white suspect."

This is smart: Donald Trump’s secret political weapon is his mastery of reality TV

As rape trial begins, elite St. Paul’s School in N.H. faces scrutiny of ‘sexual scoring’

I'm not sure what to think of the supposedly possibly supernatural aspects of this, but the story is fascinating regardless: Reburial of woman in native Ireland highlights 183-year-old murder mystery

How White And Male Are Digital Newsrooms? New Media’s Old Diversity Problem

"If you started on Jan. 1, 2016, and caught up with one scripted 2015 prime-time TV series per day, you could not finish by the end of the calendar year. Assign Jan. 1 to Mad Men, Jan. 2 to Orange Is the New Black, Jan. 3 to Modern Family and so on, knock out a whole show every single day, week in and week out, on Saturdays and Sundays and Flag Day and your birthday, and you will not make it."

They're doing a Star Trek cruise. Shatner is the host. Because of course he is.