June 27
Better Than News
"Southern Cross Man" is a song by Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Indiana Jones and the Last Grilled Cheese Sandwich is an American action-adventure foodie film directed by Steven Spielberg about archaeologist Indiana Jones, who is searching for the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich.
Love, Mannequin Style is an anthology comedy television series. Each episode features a story of mannequin romance, usually with a comedic spin.
Mind Haunter is an American psychological crime thriller television series about the supernatural phenomenon affecting the FBI Behavioral Science Unit in the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the late 1970s.
Nostromo Cafe is a restaurant located aboard the spaceship Nostromo.
The Day the Gorp Stood Still is a 1951 American science fiction foodie film about a humanoid alien visitor who comes to Earth, accompanied by a powerful robot, to deliver an important message about snack foods.
Gödel, Escher, Dick is an alleged user's manual for the Philip K. Dick android.
Beyond Plausible
Spice-Lord is a 2021 science fiction comedy film about a zoologist (Chris Pratt) who discovers a new species of worm which excretes a hallucinogenic drug.
Where's Pepper? is a 1970 American black comedy film about the troubled relationship between a chef (George Segal) and his senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who keeps interfering with his seasonings.
In Other Words
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 under Devil's Tower during World War II.
The Rocky Road is a 2009 American post-apocalyptic frozen confections film a father (Viggo Mortenson) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) seeking rocky road ice cream in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Are You Sure
... that mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange?
... that The Noel Harrison Sensation (or simply The Sensation) is a fully licensed transdimensional corporation which actor Noel Harrison uses to project his sensorium, in order to experience opening nights of films by himself and his friends from novel perspectives; and that Harrison usually manifests The Sensation as a movie poster, although he occasionally manifests as a life-size cardboard figure of himself?
Topic of the Day
Food
Tartrazzini is a transnational dish made with diced poultry or seafood and mushroom in a butter/cream and parmesan sauce colored bright green-yellow with tartrazine (nonfiction). Often one or more of the ingredients will be infused with tartrazine in advance.
They Live, We Eat is a short documentary film about how restaurants specializing in alien cuisine are coping with business and xenobiological issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chicxulub Chips is a brand of snack food, consisting primarily of tephra from the Chicxulub crater.