October 9

Stained Glass John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Better Than News

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  Sister Ghost is an American comedy action romance fantasy film starring Whoopi Goldberg as a recently deceased murder victim whose ghost must hide out among nuns.

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  The Gnoming is a 1980 horror gardening film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Jack Nicholson as an alcoholic groundskeeper who is possessed by the vengeful spirit of a murdered gnome.

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  Matrix Redemption is an epic religious science fiction film directed by Martin Scorsese and the Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves and Willem Dafoe.

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  Naboo Vice is an American science fiction police drama television series starring Ahmed Best, Don Johnson, and Philip Michael Thomas.

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  Charlie's E.T.s is an American science fiction action comedy television series directed by McG and Steven Spielberg, starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu.

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  Terminator: Blowout is a science fiction lawn and garden do-it-yourself thriller film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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  The Naked City Ape is a 1968 American anthropology noir film about a police paleontologist couple (Howard Duff and Dorothy Hart) who uncover evidence that a beautiful protohominid was brutally murdered.

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  "Work! Work! Work!", or "Work! Work! Work! (To Everything Job Is a Paycheck)", is a song written by the Anti-Seeger, a malefic artificial job creation agency based on a rogue Pete Seeger emulator. The song was originally released in 1962 as "To Every job There Is a Paycheck" on folk group [REDACTED]' album Folk Mutineer, and then some months later on Seeger's own The Bosses and the Sweat.

Beyond Plausible

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  Hellcheeser 2: Cheese of Cthulhu is a British supernatural cheese horror film about the Cheddarbites, a group of extra-dimensional, sadomasochistic beings who are locked in an eternal struggle with Cthulhu for the soul of cheese.

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  Harkonnen is a science fiction heist film starring Burgess Meredith as a ruthless interplanetary crime boss.

In Other Words

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  Stephen King's Winnie-the-Pooh is an American children's horror novel about an anthropomorphic bear who befriends an evil clown.

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  The Day the Bomb Cried is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 Swedish-French war film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

Are You Sure

CIA officer Left: E. Howard Hunt. Right: "Three tramps" arrested after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

• ... that American intelligence officer and writer E. Howard Hunt (9 October 1918 – 23 January 2007) was a CIA officer from 1949 to 1970; that Hunt, along with G. Gordon Liddy and others, planned and committed burglaries and other criminal undercover operations for the Nixon administration; and that after Hunt's death, his sons, Howard St. John Hunt and David Hunt, stated publicly that their father had recorded several claims about himself and others being involved in a conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy?

• ... that mathematician and astronomer David Gregory (3 June 1659 – 10 October 1708) was "the first to openly teach the doctrines of the Principia, in a public seminary ... in those days ... a daring innovation."?

• ... that mathematician, scholar, and poet Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (9 October 1581 – 26 February 1638) wrote a translation, from Greek to Latin, of the Arithmetica of Diophantus; and that it was this very translation in which Pierre de Fermat wrote his famous margin note claiming that he had a proof of Fermat's last theorem; and that the same text renders Diophantus' term παρισὀτης as adaequalitat, which became Fermat's technique of adequality, a pioneering method of infinitesimal calculus?

• ... that French artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus (9 October 1859 – 12 July 1935) was falsely accused of treason, brought to trial, and convicted in 1884; that his enemies were motivated by anti-Semitism; that his trial became one of the most sensational political dramas in modern French history, with effects throughout Europe; and that Dreyfus was completely exonerated?

Topic of the Day

Vampires

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  Edge of Blade is an American science fiction horror film about an immortal vampire (Wesley Snipes) is trapped in a time-loop war between humans and aliens.

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  Blood Diamond Vampire is an American political action horror film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, and Tom Cruise.

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  Vampsie is a 1982 American satirical romantic horror film about a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult drives him to adopt vampirism to land a job.

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  Slake is a 1998 American superhero drinking game film about an alcoholic with vampire powers (Wesley Snipes) who must confront his inner demons.

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  How Stella Got Her Bordello of Blood Back is a romantic comedy-horror drama film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, and Dennis Miller.

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  Moby-Vamp is a novel by Herman Melville about the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, a giant vampire whale.

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  John Wick's Dracula is a 1992 American Gothic horror film directed and produced by John Wick.

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  Morbius XII: So Very Anemic is an American science fiction horror-comedy buddy film about an aging starship captain (William Shatner) who befriends a deranged biochemist (Jared Leto).

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  Vampire Bivouac is a self-help wilderness retreat organization which provides camping supplies and services for vampires.

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  Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Scout is an action-horror-politics film starring Abraham Lincoln and Duke One. During the darkest hours of the American Civil War, President Lincoln scouts for vampires with on-court charisma while defending the terms of his Nike contract.

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  Love in the Time of Sugar Vampires is a 2022 horror-documentary film about vampires who have evolved to eat sugar, and not blood.