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Better Than News
Legally Conan is an American epic romantic swords and sorcery comedy film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Reese Witherspoon.
Three Days of the Sting is an American political thriller caper film about a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover that his co-workers have all been cheated of their life savings by con artists, and tries to outwit those responsible.
Hell Bent for Lanthanum is a 1960 American Western film about an innocent chemist (Carl Gustaf Mosander) who is forced to go on the run to try and clear his name by isolating a new element (Lanthanum) from cerium nitrate.
The Three Stigmata of Barbie Eldritch is a 1964 science fiction fantasy comedy novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick. It was adapted for film by Greta Gerwig in 2023.
Five Easy Beaters is a 1970 American drama-comedy romantic road trip film starring Susan Anspach and Jack Nicholson.
Eraserhead Nevsky is a 1938 Soviet surrealist allegory film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and David Lynch. It depicts the attempted invasion of desolate industrial landscape in the 13th century by a man in space moving levers, and his defeat by Prince Eraserhead, known popularly as Eraserhead Nevsky.
Erotic Maps of Undersea Cables is an annual publication by diarist Anaïs Nin of her thoughts on the world's most arousing undersea cables.
Beyond Plausible
M3GAN in Barbieland is a fantasy horror comedy film is a fantasy horror comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig and Gerard Johnstone, and starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and Amie Donald.
Patch Adams 2: Dark Humor is a superhero crime comedy medical film starring Robin Williams and Heath Ledger.
Seinpuff is an American buddy cop sitcom starring Sean Combs and Jerry Seinfeld as twin brothers whose comedy act draws unwanted attention from a secret Hollywood vice squad.
In Other Words
Bone Eater 5 is an American science fiction horror television series starring Bruce Boxleitner.
Are You Sure
... that the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere is criminal mathematical function which uses threat of violence to extract computational value from transactions at corrupt treasuries and casinos?
Selected Anniversaries
1774: British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
1819: Astronomer and academic Maria Mitchell born. She will be the first American woman to work as a professional astronomer.
1977: Francis Gary Powers dies when the news helicopter he is piloting crashes into a field near Encino, Los Angeles killing Powers and the aircraft's only passenger, cameraman George Spears.
Topic of the Day
Star Trek
I, Yossarian is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek, a black comedy revolving around the "lunatic characters" drawn from several anti-war episodes of the original Star Trek, set in a secret star base in the Mediterranean during World War II.
Scotty's Place is a home improvement reality television series hosted by Montgomery Scott.
The Undersea World of Spock Cousteau is a 2021 drama film about a scientist (Leonard Nimoy) who suffers a time-travel brain injury which causes others to believe that he is Jacques Cousteau. Co-starring marine biologist Steven Zissou as "Cuddle Squid".