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Latest revision as of 09:33, 20 June 2024
Better Than News
Steamboat Bennie is an animated horror film about a lonely steamship captain who recruits an army of deadly rodents.
Bloodmoney Nights is a science fiction historical drama novel by Philip K. Dick.
The World According to Gort is a 1982 American science fiction comedy-drama about an eccentric writer (Robin Williams) who befriends an alien robot.
The Sound of Midsommar is a 2019 folk horror film loosely based on the 1965 American musical drama film The Sound of Music.
Crushed by an Angel is an American television series about an angel named Monica and her atheistic supervisor Tess. Throughout the series, Monica is tasked with bringing secular humanism to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
"Riker's Island Honey" is a song by Steve Miller.
There is no answer. There is only the Song.
Beyond Plausible
Fitzcarraldo, the Wrath of God is a drama adventure film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski.
In Other Words
"The Other, Paler Shade of White Meat" is a song by the English rock band and meat processor Procul Harum.
"Surfin' Boomerang" is a 1964 song about a surfer who throws and catches boomerangs while surfing, who finally throws too many, too far and too fast, and meets a tragic end in the briny depths.
Are You Sure
... that the memoirs of mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson on the theory of electricity and magnetism constitute a new branch of mathematical physics?
... that social activist The Governess is allegedly a secret crime-fighter with the power to chastise people into obedience?
Selected Anniversaries
1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
Topic of the Day
Pollution
Microplastics and You (full title: Microplastics and You: The Miracle of Neuroplasticity ) is a 2022 public health and planetary management directive from Gnomon Chronicles Industries.
The Secret of PERC is a 1982 American animated fantasy industrial chemistry training film about a strain of rats which have been genetically engineered to tolerate high levels of tetrachloroethylene (also known as PERC).
APTO industrial chemists classify the Hazmatterhorn as a Crime Against Chemical Constants. Although derived from the word Matterhorn, the term Hazmatterhorn is applicable to any mountain of hazardous materials.
Soylent Tweet is a 1973 American ecological dystopian social media film about the investigation into the murder of a wealthy Twitter influencer, set in a dystopian future of overpopulation, pollution, depleted resources, dying oceans, and year-round humidity, due to the Tweethouse effect.
Dr. Greenmoney by Philip K. Dick.
Aquifer Pharmaceuticals is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which provides exploration, recovery, processing, and distribution services to the groundwater pharmaceutical industry.
Aspiring actor to Brocci: I'm not a Jelly Cake. I'm a Tumor.
Aaron Brocollivich, nicknamed "Brocci", is a telepathic film producer who made more than four thousand and ninety-six motion pictures throughout his career.
Cocaine Bear 2: East Palestine.
