August 10
Better Than News
The Hustler Proxy is an American sports romantic screwball comedy film starring Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Jackie Gleason.
Daniel Dune is an American science fiction action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Dune, a pioneering Guild Navigator who colonizes the planet Arrakis.
Hogan's Andersonville is an American television sitcom set in a Confederate prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during the American Civil War.
Cooper Black, Forensic Typographer is an American dramatic police typography television series loosely based on the life of pioneering forensic typographer "Supercool" Drew Cabo.
The Terroir is a 2007 novel by Mason S. Minds which tells a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's search for the fabled Northwest Vineyards. Plagued by starvation, illness, and cheap merlot, Franklin and his men are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by the Phylloxerum, a supernaturally cold-resistant swarm of vine-eating parasites.
The Dark Fraa (also Incantors and Rhetors: The Dark Fraa in Extramuros markets) is a 2008 superhero number theory film about a powerful Warden Fendant (Christian Bale) who must stop a deranged Thousander (Heather Ledger) from pronouncing the aut Anathem on the entire Concent of Gotham.
Beyond Plausible
Dark Script is a science fiction psychological thriller about an intelligent explosive device (Bomb 20, reprising its role in Dark Star) which abandons its primary mission in order to write screenplays.
The Six Million Dollar Cop is an American science fiction and action television series about a murdered police officer who is rebuilt with superhuman strength, speed and vision due to bionic implants.
My Dinner With Atreides is a 1981 science fiction comedy-drama film about a disbarred Spacing Guild navigator turned restauranteur (Wallace Shawn) and a wealthy investor (Leto Atreides). The film's dialogue covers topics such as experimental drugs, the nature of Arrais, and contrasts Wally's modest humanism with Leto's dynastic ambitions.
In Other Words
Fugitive Nights: Assignment Earth is a science fiction crime drama television series starring Teri Garr and Sam Elliott.
"Hydrangea" is a song by the English rock band and florists the Rolling Stones.
Are You Sure
... that "Jetsam Inn Had No Hero" is an anagram of "Martin Johnson Heade"?
Selected Anniversaries
1602: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval born. He will publish a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1792: French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1896: Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, known as the flying man, dies from injuries sustained the day before when his glider fell and crashed.
1960: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen dies. His work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
2000: Mathematician and crime-fighter Armand Borel publishes new theory of linear algebraic groups with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
Topic of the Day
Paintings
"Jetsam Inn Had No Hero" is an anagram of "Martin Johnson Heade".
The Invasion of Sodom and Gomorrah is an Old Testament science fiction film by Major Ninth based on the painting The Invasion of Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin.