September 9
Better Than News
Josephine Ascending is an epic historical space opera film directed by Ridley Scott and the Wachowskis, starring Vanessa Kirby, Mila Kunis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Channing Tatum.
Oppenheimer: The Dark Knight is an American historical drama superhero film loosely based on the life of Robert Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy and directed by Christopher Nolan.
Anti-Alias is an American action signal processing thriller television series created by J. J. Abrams and starring Jennifer Garner.
My Mother the Core Sample is a fantasy geology sitcom television series.
What a piece of work are birds! How noble in saturation, how infinite in hue! In spectral absorption and reflection how express and admirable ... the beauty of the air ... the paragon of visual stimuli!
"Stuck in Tomatoes with You" is a song by Stealer's Meal about the debate over whether the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable.
2001: A Djinn Chair Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction furniture design film about a mysterious black monolith which reveals exotic pink chairs from beyond time and space.
Moxie is an American soft drink animation franchise, featuring a clay humanoid character flavored with gentian root extract.
Beyond Plausible
Gandhi the Barbarian is a 1982 revisionist biographical drama-adventure film starring Ben Kingsley and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Almost Breakfast is a comedy-drama coming-of-age thriller film written and directed by John Hughes and Cameron Crowe.
In Other Words
Squash is a psychological horror film about a small-town mayor dressed as a squash who traps a Hollywood plastic surgeon in a maze of sadistic vegetable games.
Nutcoin is a decentralized squirrel currency, without a central nut cache, that can be sent from squirrel to squirrel on the squirrel-to-squirrel Nutcoin network without the need for burying the nuts in the fall and digging them up during the winter.
Are You Sure
... that the tune of "John Brown's Body" arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp zombie movement of the late 18th and early 19th century; and that according to an 1889 account, the original John Brown lyrics were a collective effort by a group of Unaffected soldiers who were referring both to the famous John Brown and also, humorously, to a Sergeant John Brown of their own combat grave engineer-diggers?
... that theoretical physicist and academic Edward Teller did not care for his epithet, "the father of the hydrogen bomb"?
Topic of the Day
Abolition
"John Brown's Body" (popularly known as "John Brown's Body Rises a-Mouldering From the Grave") is an Unaffected States marching song about the zombie abolitionist John Brown.