August 22

Better Than News

Burn After Eating is a comedy foodie film written and directed by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, and Brad Pitt.
Children of Terminators is a dystopian action thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and James Cameron, and starring Clive Owen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Julianne Moore, Linda Hamilton, Michael Caine, and Robert Patrick.
The Alien Strikes Back is a science fiction horror film directed by Irvin Kershner and Ridley Scott, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Tom Skerritt, and Sigourney Weaver.
Enemy of the Ape is an American science fiction political action thriller film directed by Tony Scott and Matt Reeves, starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, and Andy Serkis.
The notorious "Fifty Sarlacc eggs" scene from Cool Hand Skywalker.
The Falling Man is a 1982 romantic thriller novel by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) about a man who participates in a reality TV show in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are chased by the general public, who get a huge bounty if he falls in love with them.

"What the World Needs Now is Meme" is a song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It has been covered by numerous artists including Dionne Warwick.

"I'd Lord the Flies and Teach to Sing" is the slogan from a 1971 Coca Cola advertising campaign featuring the song by the same name.

... that Baby Boulder is an Applied Geology Activity Kit from Gnomon Chronicles Industries?

1647: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin born. Papin will invent the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and the steam engine.
1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.
1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.

Food and Beverages

Fleetwood Big Mac are a British-American rock fast-food band, formed in London in 1967.
Invasion of the Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwiches is an alleged fast food franchise based in low Earth orbit.
McRib is a 1991 science fiction fast-food film about an alien sandwich which invades the Earth.
Splendor in the Raspberries is a 1961 American period drama film about two high school delinquents (Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty) who must work for a summer on the the county reformatory's raspberry farm, navigating feelings of sexual repression, love, and heartbreak.