Template:Better Than News/December 12
When You're Smiley is a 2018 spy novel by John le Carré. Plot: spymaster George Smiley is called out of retirement to investigate the death of Louis Armstrong. Smiley learns that Armstrong had discovered information that will lead to a final confrontation with their mutual nemesis, the Soviet intelligence officer Karla.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Popeye is a 1989 crime drama film about an English gangster (Popeye the Sailor Man) and his reluctant yet elegant wife (Helen Mirren).
One C.H.O.M.P. at a Time is an American television sitcom about a young inventor (Valerie Bertinelli) who creates C.H.O.M.P.S. ("Canine HOMe Protection System"), a robotic dog for use as part of a home protection system.
"Back on the Supply Chain Gang" is a song by Chrissie Hynde and the Department of Corrections.
"You Can Call Me Algorithm" is a song by Paul Simon and HAL 9000.
"Everything is going to be okay." —Messier 57, the Ring Nebula in Lyra. Source: Gnomon Chronicles Astronomy Society, a non-profit cooperative transdimensional corporation which interviews stars, planets, nebulae, and other cosmological phenomena.