June 9
Better Than News
Always Looping Home is a 2023 science fiction anthropology film starring Emily Blunt. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Ursula K. LeGuin.
James Bond and the Giant Peach is a children's fantasy spy thriller novel by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming.
Soylent Gazoo is a 1973 science fiction buddy comedy dystopia film starring Charlton Heston and Harvey Korman.
Where No Man Has Spawned Before is an epic science fiction romantic drama film starring Gary Lockwood and Sally Kellerman.
Divergent: Rise of the Citrus is an American dystopian science fiction action film about a dystopian and post-apocalyptic Chicago where people are divided into distinct factions based on citrus fruits.
I, Marta is a biographical drama film about Marta, a slave girl held prisoner on Elba II.
Sneakers in the Park is an American romantic comedy science fiction political thriller film starring Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, and Ben Kingsley.
Beyond Plausible
"Paint It Black, White Rabbit" is a song by the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane.
"Unobtainum must be obtained, or the Empire is doomed." (From "Avatar, Avatar", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek.)
This is your brain on transporter malfunctions is a public interest campaign intended to raise awareness of neurological injuries caused by transporter malfunctions.
The Way We Once Were Warriors is a dramatic love story about an idealistic political activist (Barbra Streisand) and a feckless writer (Robert Redford) who move from America to New Zealand, where they meet an urban Māori family troubled by alcoholism and domestic violence.
In Other Words
The Litany against decaffeination (also known by its first sentence, I must not decaffeinate) .
Are You Sure
... that physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."—?
Selected Anniversaries
1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1950: Novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is photographed Bureau of Prisons authorities. Trumbo will serve eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Wisconsin for refusing to testify before House Un-American Activities Committee.
1953: Singer-physicist J. R. Oppenheimer's song "Destroyer of Worlds" is condemned by the House Un-American Activities Committee as "pernicious satire which knowingly demeans the national security state."
1954: "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" —Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army. See McCarthyism.
Topic of the Day
Knives
Soprano Todd: The Barber-Surgeon of Fleet Street is a 2007 American barbershop quartet medical slasher film starring Johnny Depp.
Cooking Tonight with Shelley Duvall is a cooking television series starring hosted by Shelley Duvall. Each episode features Duvall reprising a film role as she prepares a thematically appropriate meal.
Julia Child the 13th is a 1980 American horror cooking film starring celebrity chef and Office of Strategic Services (OSS) researcher Julia Child.
Dagger of the Mind 2: The Rise of Sulu is a science fiction action-adventure film starring George Takei.
Sweeney Vince is a 2007 American revisionist biography musical thriller film loosely based on the life of Vincent van Gogh.
To Shave Man is a musical science fiction horror-comedy television series about alien barber-chef Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) and his delicious assistant (Helena Bonham Carter).