February 6
Better Than News
The C-Files is an American science fiction drama-sitcom television series set in a bar near FBI headquarters in Washington, where a group of agents meet to drink, relax, and discuss paranormal phenomena.
Ex Machina 2: Fifty Shades of Ex is a neo-erotic science noir film about a sentient robot (Alicia Vikander) who begins a sadomasochistic relationship with young business magnate (Jamie Dornan).
Calaladan is a 2021 musical romantic comedy science fiction drama film about an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and a jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) who befriend a young aristocrat (Paul Atreides).
Defenestration of the Realm is 1986 documentary home repair thriller film about a journalist (Gabriel Byrne) who discovers a shocking pattern of people being thrown out windows to their deaths.
Soprano Todd: The Barber-Surgeon of Fleet Street is a 2007 American barbershop quartet medical slasher film starring Johnny Depp.
Fifty Shades of Maul is a neo-erotic science fiction thriller film about a young Senator who begins a sadomasochistic relationship with a Sith business magnate.
Beyond Plausible
Grateful Droid is a Grateful Dead cover band starring C3P0, R2D2, and a varying cast of supporting droids.
Absence of Verdict is a neo-noir legal drama thriller film starring Paul Newman and Sally Field.
McMillan & Ex is an American private detective television series starring Susan Saint James as the owner of a successful private detective agency, and Rock Hudson as her ex-husband and employee.
The Bourne Decaffeination is a 2002 action-coffee film starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, a man suffering from caffeine deprivation amnesia attempting to discover his identity amidst a clandestine conspiracy within the CIA.
In Other Words
Three Days of the Sand Mouse is a science fiction spy thriller film directed by David Lynch and Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, and Sting.
Eaty Peachy Big and Bouncy is a compilation album of singles by the Allman Brothers and the Who.
Autobiography of a Wogdon & Barton Flintlock Smoothbore Dueling Pistol is an autobiography of the dueling pistol which killed Alexander Hamilton.
Are You Sure
• ... that chemist, philosopher, educator, and clergyman Joseph Priestley is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but that his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community?
• ... that Shakespeare's play The Lord of the Danes is loosely based on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
• ... that physicist and space activist Gerard K. O'Neill developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O'Neill cylinder; and that he founded the Space Studies Institute, an organization devoted to funding research into space manufacturing and colonization?
• ... that Not Milk? (stylized as not milk?) is an advertising campaign encouraging the non-consumption of milk by Bronze-age warriors?
Topic of the Day
Elton John
"I Guess That's Why They Call It The Borg" is a song English singer-songwriter Elton John 1.1.
Tiny Antlers is a song by Elton John.
"Amanita" is a song by Elton Shaman about the fly agaric mushroom.
"Pinball Saved My Life Tonight" is a song by Elton John.
"Someone Took My Meds Tonight" is a song by Elton John.