May 6

Better Than News

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  2001: A Spice Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction stoner buddy film about an intelligent computer (Douglas Rain) who befriends a dispossessed aristocrat (Paul Atreides).

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  The Imitation Strange is a 2016 American historical superhero film about mathematician Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for Doctor Strange during World War II.

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  The Gamma Nights of Ally McBeal is an American superhero legal comedy drama television series starring Calista Flockhart.

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  Mission Impossible: Undercover King is a British-American comedy spy film starring Tom Cruise and Camilla Parker Bowles.

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  "The way the Sixties are going, the Fifties are going the make the Forties feel like the Thirties!"

Beyond Plausible

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  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Product Teams* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a 1972 American corporate policy sex comedy film directed by Woody Allen.

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  Four Honeymoons and a Snake on a Plane is a 2021 romantic herpetology thriller film starring Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, and Samuel L. Jackson.

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  Disco Oubliette is a 2022 American historical musical television series hosted by Disco Stu.

In Other Words

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  Zillow is a 1998 fantasy real estate adventure film.

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  "Grandest Boon" is an anagram of "Boston Garden".

Are You Sure

... that physician, alchemist, scholar, and adventurer Johann Joachim Becher proposed Phlogiston theory in an attempt to explain processes such as combustion and rusting, which are now collectively known as oxidation?

... that the science fiction stoner film 2001: A Spice Odyssey was co-directed by Stanley Kubrick and Denis Villeneuve?

Topic of the Day

Geology

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  Time Enough in Layers: A geologist (Meredith Burgess-Shale) unleashes a global nuclear holocaust in order to find a rare trilobite. (The Twilight Zone: Forbidden Episodes)

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  "Toba, or not Toba" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "geology scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Prince of Geologists, Act 3, Scene 1. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and catastrophe, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of the Toba supervolcano but acknowledging that the catastrophe theory might be overstated.

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  1972: Modern dance company Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on the history of high-energy literature in New Minneapolis, Canada.

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  Chicxulub Chips is a brand of snack food, consisting primarily of tephra from the Chicxulub crater.

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  Close Encounters of the Spud Kind is a 1977 supernatural geology film, written and directed by [REDACTED], starring [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED]; and that the film tells the story of [REDACTED], an everyday blue-collar UFO researcher in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with the Devil's potato masher.

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  The Coriolis Force Modern Dance Company debuts new work "Paleoglacial Sedimentary Particulate Deposit Patterns Reveal Evidence of Planetary Rotational Wobble".

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  "Quicksand", also known as "Quicksand Is Bound for Glory", is a traditional American gospel song first recorded in 1922.

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  "Massa's in de Coal Coal Ground" is a song about the coal industry by Stephen Foster 1.1.