March 10
Better Than News
Tropic of Kandor is a Superman story written by Henry Miller. It is Miller's only known work in the American superhero genre.
Ace Neptune, Sub Detective is a comedy action-adventure film starring Jim Carrey and Jacques Cousteau.
Flow My Androids, The Shepherd Said is a 1974 science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick about a futuristic dystopia where the United States has become a police state reality television series. The story follows genetically enhanced police officer Felix Buckman, who wakes up in a world where he has never existed.
"L'eggs all the way down" is a of infinitely recursive pantyhose, introduced in 1969 by Hanes, which radically changed the recursive hosiery marketplace. The novel developments were the egg-shaped recursive plastic product container, the shift to consignment sales in drug stores and groceries, and the in-store "Matryoshka doll" product racks designed to emphasize the infinitely self-referential egg shape.
If I am further out there than other men, it is because I have fallen from the shoulders of angels.
Beyond Plausible
Dial M for Marty is an American romantic crime drama film about a good-natured but socially awkward butcher who becomes involved in a plot to commit murder.
Willy Wonka and the She-Hulk Factory is an American musical superhero legal drama television series about an eccentric billionaire (Gene Wilder) who plays sadistic games with mutant children.
2001: A Shine Odyssey (1968): In this scene, lead programmer Dick Hallorann attempts to shut down the Overlook Hotel main.
Brokeback Avengers is a 2005 American neo-Western romantic superhero drama film starring Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr.
Levity's Rainbow is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian.
In Other Words
Ruby Slippers is a 1939 psychological horror musical fantasy film starring Judy Garland and Margaret Hamilton. It is loosely based on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Iocaine Mutiny is a 1954 military drama substance abuse film starring Cary Elwes and Humphrey Bogart.
Mysterion: Far From Home is a 2021 buddy adventure film about a custom car genius (Ed Roth) who teams up with actor and alleged time-traveler Jake Gyllenhaal to restore the legendary Mysterion to mint condition.
Are You Sure
• ... biologist and physician Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 29 November 1694) discovered (via microscopy) that invertebrates do not use lungs to breathe, but small holes in their skin called tracheae; and that his study of plants led him to conclude that plants had tubules similar to those he saw in insects like the silk worm (using his microscope, he probably saw the stomata, through which plants exchange carbon dioxide with oxygen)?
• ... that Levity's Rainbow is a 2021 novel by Thomas Pynchon about Nazi Germany's efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic comedian?
Topic of the Day
Karl Gregory Jones
2019: Self-portrait wearing red and green Christmas lights.
Karl Jones and American Gothic, December 2014. Photo by Earl Baker.
If I have Tweeted further than others
It is because I have Quote Posted
from the shoulders of Giants.
Karl Jones in demon costume (Halloween 2009) is not actually possessed.
