Hot Coffee on the Boulevard – the Best of the Internet

It’s Friday, June 27, 2014 – time for Hot Coffee on the Boulevard! Have a great weekend.

We’ll be back on Friday, July 11 with more piping hot goodness for you. Have a wonderful 4th of July!

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 BOOKS WE LOVE

Gourmet Magazine writer and former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl has written a novel. It’s called Delicious. We can’t wait to get a taste!

Sharon is reading an entertaining book about a midlife woman, her cheating husband and a family vacation called, appropriately, The Vacationers by Emma Straub. You’ll enjoy it!

If you are looking to read more this summer, join this summer reading challenge from the Left to Write book club. Get support, share your success and win great prizes.

BLOGS AND CAN’T MISS ARTICLES

Put your coffee down and laugh out loud at David Sedaris’ love for his Fitbit.

Amazing photography creates unbelievable art. Inkblots will never look the same.

For those who love the English language, this article has 66 things you probably never heard before.

Hat tip to Patricia Patton for pointing us to this article from the Freakonomics guys about how to break mental habits so you can be crazy smart.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND TECH

Alli Worthington on why page views are worthless, and so much more.

Helene Bludman of Books is Wonderful has some great photo apps for making your images super-impressive.

100 influential (and interesting) people to follow on Twitter.

BEAUTY, FASHION AND HOME

In another installment of Sharon’s obsession with tiny living spaces, here are some beds that are spectacular.

For a bit of nostalgia and just plain gorgeousness, this look at cool people from the past is a must.

These wedding dresses make us want to get married again. Or have a daughter getting married. Or something.

ENTERTAINMENT

A gorgeous couple – and we can’t wait for Justin Theroux’s new series on HBO, The Leftovers.

Gigi is on it’s way back to Broadway. Ooh la la!

We’re as excited about Meryl Streep playing Maria Callas as Liz Smith is.

Clear your schedule. There’s a site called My70sTV.com (Also, my80stv.com and my90stv.com.) It’s a viewer for commercials, movie trailers, news, comedy shows, and all those things you’ve forgotten. Here’s the movie trailer for Love Story from 1970, or as Anne described it to her kids, The Fault in Our Stars for old people.

This owl is a real hoot. Bah-dum-dum.

For Game of Thrones Fans…

 

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Cheetahs take our breath away.