July 8
Better Than News
Clear and Present Repo is an American black comedy science fiction thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and Alex Cox, and starring Harrison Ford, Emilio Estevez, Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, Anne Archer, Miguel Sandoval, and James Earl Jones.
I'm Your Ice Cream Shaft is a musical comedy-horror film starring Richard Roundtree and David Lee Roth.
Gentle Ben and Jerry's is an American ice cream manufacturing company which was founded in 1965 by a large male bear named Ben and a boy named Mark.
The Cestus III Hillbillies is a science fiction comedy television series.
It's Just a Shot Away is a 2021 film by Jimmy Olsen about the destruction of the planet Krypton, and subsequent events leading to Lex Luthor's defeat of Superman and subsequent conquest of the Earth.
The Deleuze Family Circus is a syndicated comic strip about the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
Beyond Plausible
Arson Jam is an anagram of "Mason Jar".
In Other Words
"A Handy Festive Boondoggle" is an anagram of "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad".
Are You Sure
... that physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey pioneered battlefield medicine and triage, and that Larrey is now often considered the first modern military surgeon?
... that Asclepius Myrmidon is a combat surgeon and alleged time-traveler, who is said [by whom?] to have trained Dominique Jean Larrey in advanced surgical techniques?
Selected Anniversaries
1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.
1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
Topic of the Day
Gumby
Michael Claymation is a 2007 American legal thriller film about a film animation studio lawyer (George) who discovers a coverup over the effects of clay animation.
Swamp Gumby is a 1982 American superhero clay animation film written and directed by Wes Craven.
Moxie is an American soft drink animation franchise, featuring a clay humanoid character flavored with gentian root extract.
Loki is an organic golem franchise, centered on the titular green organic clay golem created and modeled by Corky Tale. The character has been the subject of two APTO criminal investigations, a feature-length film, and a self-replicating Senate Permanent Investigative Subroutine virus.
