July 19
Better Than News
Citizen Rushmore is a comedy drama film directed by Orson Welles and Wes Anderson.
Johnny Got His Code is an anti-war software development thriller film based on the novel by Dalton Trumbo about a military computer programmer (Jake Gyllenhaal) who finds himself trapped in a virtual military-industrial complex.
The Three Stigmata of R2D2 is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
The Alternating Current of Pelham One-Two-Three is a 1974 American thriller film loosely based on the life of Nikola Tesla.
Hawaii Starfleet is a science fiction police procedural television series set in Hawaii.
Harry Potter and the Reservoir Dogs of Fire is a fantasy crime film directed by Mike Newell and Quentin Tarantino, starring David Tennant, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, and Steve Buscemi.
The Gnomon in the High Castle is a 1962 alternative history novel by Philip K. Dick in which the United States is ruled by sundials.
Stranger Crowns is a revisionist historical drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Shaft of the Archer is a 2022 action-bromance fantasy adventure film starring Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom.
"Talking Duality Blues" is a traditional quantum folk song about wave-particle dualism.
Beyond Plausible
"Big Bad Bill (is William Carlos Williams Now)" is a 1924 song about a man who was once a fearsome and rough character known for getting into fights, who, after getting married, becomes a poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.
"Don't It Make My Dune Eyes Blue" is a song by Crystal Gayle and Frank Herbert.
I Go-Go Pogo is a short documentary film about how Pogo Possum influenced the emergence of go-go dancing in America.
In Other Words
1959: The Ham Omelette breakfast cafe and Shakespearean playhouse opens in New Minneapolis, Canada.
Marquis de Sade Whipped Jalapeño Cheddar spread is a brand of hand-whipped dairy bondage food products.
A portable Envy device allows the user to offload, and later re-upload, the emotion of envy.
If I Won the Lottery is a song by Tim Hardin 1.1.
Are You Sure
... that physicist Hugh Everett III proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics?
... that actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveler Niles Cartouchian exists as separate but mutually aware individuals in different centuries spanning at least four hundred years?
Topic of the Day
Books
Look Homeward, Ulysses is an epic documentary film about the collaborative novel of the same name by James Joyce and Thomas Wolfe.
Can Fish Microwave Soup is a grocery shopping thriller novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.