March 20
Better Than News
Oppenheimer: Infinity War is an American superhero historical drama film loosely based on the Manhattan Project.
Barbie: Way of the Samurai is a fantasy adventure crime drama film directed by Jim Jarmusch and Greta Gerwig, and starring Margot Robbie and Forest Whitaker.
Cannablanca is a 1942 stoner war drama film about American expatriate Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), whose old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) unexpectedly appears with her husband, award-winning cannabis farmer Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid).
Moby-Peck is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville about a giant white whale's maniacal quest for vengeance against actor Gregory Peck.
Mesopelagium is a restaurant in New Minneapolis, Canada specializing in seafood from the mesopelagic zone.
Dune: House Soprano is a crime drama television series revolving around interplanetary mob boss Baron Soprano (James Gandolfini), portraying his difficulties as he tries to balance family life with his role in the assassination of Duke Leto Atreides and subsequent events on Arrakis.
Beyond Plausible
Cthulhu Burger is a fast food restaurant chain owned and operated by the malevolent supernatural entity Cthulhu.
"Acoustic Newt" is an anagram of "Cocteau Twins".
In Other Words
The Caterer Strikes Back is a 1983 science fiction comedy film about a Jedi Chef (Luke Skywalker) who struggles to start a catering business in competition with Grand Chef Tarkin.
Are You Sure
... that sociologist and author C. Wright Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, and that Mills advocated public and political engagement over disinterested observation?
Selected Anniversaries
1726/27: Isaac Newton dies. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1878: Physician and physicist Julius Robert von Mayer dies. In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. His achievements were overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule in the following year.
1914: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein develops a new drum fill which anticipates his general theory of relativity.
1915: Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1962: Sociologist and author C. Wright Mills dies. He was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.
1993: Physicist and academic Polykarp Kusch dies. Kusch made a accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics; he was award the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics for this accomplishment.
Topic of the Day
Billy Bob Thornton
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."
A Cymbal Plan is a 1998 American crime drama musical film about an upstanding local man (Bill Paxton), his dim brother (Billy Bob Thornton) and their friend (Brent Briscoe) discover a crashed plane with two things in it: a dead pilot, and a cargo of golden cymbals worth more than four million dollars.
Armageddon Hard is a 1998 American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.
Bald Santa is a 2003 Christmas crime drama film about a New York police detective (Telly Savalas) who goes undercover as a department store Santa Claus in order to flush out a ruthless shoplifter (Billy Bob Thornton).
