November 11

Better Than News

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  Gravity's Expendables is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon about a team of elite mercenaries tasked with stealing a Nazi secret weapon. It was adapted for a 2010 film starring Sylvester Stallone.

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  Teilhard Cider is a philosophical beverage fermented from planetary "sphere of reason" apples.

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  It's Just a Shot Away is a 2021 film by Jimmy Olsen about the destruction of the planet Krypton, and subsequent events leading to Lex Luthor's defeat of Superman and subsequent conquest of the Earth.

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  Blue Lace Hooks is a 1958 erotic thriller film starring Lana Turner and Red Buttons.

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  "Everybody Wants Toast is a song by Van Halen.

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  Pulp Fiat is a 1994 American financial thriller film by Quentin Tarantino which tells several stories of currencies that are not backed by any commodity such as gold or silver, typically declared by a decree from the government to be legal tender.

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  Tron-Mart is a 1982 American science fiction action-shopping film about a computer programmer and video game developer who is transported inside the software world of a corporate retailer where he interacts with virtual consumer goods in his attempt to escape.

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  Ace Neptune, Sub Detective is a comedy action-adventure film starring Jim Carrey and Jacques Cousteau.

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  Mesopelagium is a restaurant in New Minneapolis, Canada specializing in seafood from the mesopelagic zone.

Beyond Plausible

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  The Man from P.U.T.T.E.R. is a golf technothriller television series about P.U.T.T.E.R., a secret organization using golf as a cover for international counter-espionage operations.

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  Slurried Bulldozer is a brand of high-fiber breakfast cereal.

In Other Words

<gallery> File:Saw of the South.jpg|link=Saw of the South|Saw of the South is a American live-action/animated musical horror film in the Saw franchise.

File:Like a Crustacean.jpg|link=Like a Crustacean|"Like a Crustacean" is a song by the Bangles.

Are You Sure

• ... that astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher (11 November 1875 – 8 November 1969) performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe?

• ... that the Liberty Bell Ruby was stolen in a heist on this day from a jewelry store in Delaware?

Topic of the Day

War

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  Young Nations At War is a dramatic anti-war film starring the United States of America, England, and Germany, with an all-star supporting cast including Russia, Japan, and Italy.

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  Playskool's My First Nuclear Football an Executive toy briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed playgrounds, such as the White House Cardboard Box Fortress.

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  The Eagle Has Tweeted is a 1975 novel by Tannery Strophe about a fictional German plot to impersonate Winston Churchill on Twitter near the end of the Second World War.

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  ISIS-K is an advanced, vitamin-fortified combat breakfast cereal manufactured by Chef Grand Tarkin under license from the Great Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.

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  "Sweet Tooth, Soldier?" was a World War Two era health program initiated and run by the United States Army in an effort to reduce sugar abuse by soldiers.

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  "(You're) Having My Bomb Bay" is a song by [REDACTED].

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  A Boy on His Beach is a 2021 post-apocalyptic science fiction musical starring Don Johnson, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins, based on the 1957 novel of the same name by This Unweary Novel.

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  I believe in Chuck, not Lance is a short documentary film about cultural patterns of tool use among higher primates, emphasizing the use of tools as weapons by Homo sapiens.

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  The war between consensus reality and reality is an ongoing high-energy literature research project.

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  We interrupt Young Nations At War to bring you Wide Wide World of Microwave Weapons.

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  The Armistice Day Decorations Committee is a provisionally licensed transdimensional corporation which discovers, synthesizes, and installs anti-war decorations in historical combat environments.