April 17
Better Than News
Friends X is an American science fiction television sitcom which revolves around six friends in their 20s and 30s who live with crippling superpowers.
The Pope's Gladiator is an epic historical supernatural horror film directed by Ridley Scott and Julius Avery, and starring Russell Crowe.
New Ingredients for Old is a cookbook and memoir by Margaret Mead and Julia Child.
You're Soaking In It is an erotic comedy-thriller film starring Madge from the famed Palmolive commercials.
Wick Hunt is a 1984 light gun shooter video game developed by John Wick for close-quarters combat.
Alien vs. Bugs is a science fiction horror film about an iconic American cartoon figure (Bugs Bunny) who is marked for death by an aggressive alien film franchise.
Beyond Plausible
Willy Wonka and the Elephant Man is an American drama film starring Gene Wilder and John Hurt.
The Pressure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American Western geology disaster film about two downtrodden volcanologists (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) who join forces with a grizzled old prospector (Walter Huston) to prevent a catastrophic eruption.
In Other Words
Association is a 1979 American science fiction horror film about a Sunshine Pop band (The Association) which encounters an alien creature aboard the commercial space tug Nostromo.
Flimber Jurbles is a poorly-documented phenomenon involving multi-colored tubes and ritual behaviors.
When a Psyche Calls is a 1979 psychological self-discovery thriller film film.
Are You Sure
• ... that scientist, inventor, and poet Piet Hein (who often wrote under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel", meaning "tombstone") is known for short poems, known as gruks or grooks, such as Consolation Grook, which reads:
"Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again."?
• ... that the Disambiguum is a transdimensional corporation in which all things and all ideas are disambiguated?
Topic of the Day
Candy
Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about mental illness, the physics of time, and the dangers of sugar addiction.
Canopic Snickers is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.
"Sweet Tooth, Soldier?" was a World War Two era health program initiated and run by the United States Army in an effort to (1) reduce sugar abuse by soldiers, and (2) create war-era art capable of out-competing Soviet post art.
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Skittles are symbolic of late-stage consumerism is a political theory advanced by the [REDACTED] and their agents within the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.
