August 19
Better Than News
Free Squishy is a 1993 American family cephalopod film about an orphaned boy who befriends a captive octopus at a secret military research facility until a dark secret reveals the CIA's plan to use Squishy as a genetically engineered assassin.
Dances with Na'vi is an epic science fiction Western film directed by Kevin Costner and James Cameron, starring Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, and Sigourney Weaver.
Singapore Sling Blade is a 1996 American comedy-action film about an Arkansas bartender (Billy Bob Thornton) who challenges himself to "invent the most foreign cocktail ever seen in these parts."
Mattock is a landscape architecture legal drama television series starring Andy Griffith.
Tubular Elves is a short documentary film about how the album Tubular Bells accidentally recorded machine elves during UK military submarine communication tests.
Jungian Charms is an alleged breakfast cereal which manifests the user's shadow self.
Beyond Plausible
Schindler's Lust is an epic historical drama mystery suspense thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and Steven Spielberg.
The Final Pencil is an educational standardized testing horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
The Shop of Things to Come is a science fiction consumer society novel by British writer H. G. Wells about a future shopping expedition which ends in madness, death, and the Final Checkout.
"Someone Sank My Battleship" is a song by Elton John and Milton Bradley.
In Other Words
Spray Bactine for Me is a 1971 American psychological thriller film about a radio disc jockey (Clint Eastwood) who is stalked by an obsessed nurse (Jessica Walter).
"My Oilier Longings" is an anagram of "Losing My Religion".
Are You Sure
... that the 2015 Toledo giant red ball incident (nonfiction) is non-fictional?
Topic of the Day
Books
June is a novel by Frank Herbert 1.1 (as told to OrbGazer). (A HAL 9000 Mental Health Associates Book of the Month selection.)
Crate Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens about Pip, an orphan boy whose apprenticeship as a carpenter leads to fame and fortune in the box-making trade.