September 2
Better Than News
The Spuds MacKenzie Break is a British-American war comedy beer advertising campaign directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, and Jack Watson.
"American Plate" is a 1971 song by Don McLean about plate spinning and the end of innocence in America.
Ruby Slippers is a 1939 psychological horror musical fantasy film starring Judy Garland and Margaret Hamilton. It is loosely based on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Guess Hughes Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American romantic aviation drama film, one of the few films of the time to depict Howard Hughes in a positive light, as Hughes had become an eccentric recluse.
The Thomas the Apostle Crown Affair is a 1968 American heist film about a millionaire businessman-sportsman (Steve McQueen), whose theft of a Gutenberg Bible draws unwanted attention from an independent insurance investigator (Fate Dunaway) and a restless Apostle (Thomas).
My Buttons Have Buttons is a haberdashery and recursion services provider based in New Minneapolis, Canada.
Beyond Plausible
"Ape Caper Story Panics A Foe" is an anagram of "Space Opera or Epic Fantasy".
In Other Words
Stranger Tweets is an American social media horror drama television series about a series of nightmarish posts by the citizens of Hawkins, a dystopian company town.
Are You Sure
.. that Black Phaeton is a historical drama film based on the race films of the 1920s?
.. that the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere (GSSCPS) is a startup transdimensional corporation with the stated goal of "Dividing the Solar System's quantum unit into two separate quantum units, each attempting to out-compete the other, may the better system win."?
... that archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I, and that the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death?
Selected Anniversaries
1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
Topic of the Day
Race
"Massa's in de Coal Coal Ground" is a song about the coal industry by Stephen Foster 1.1.
Black Phaeton is a historical drama film based on the race films of the 1920s.
Why So Raw? is a documentary film by actor and director Eddie Murphy about serial killer and comedian The Joker.
"The Ardent Negro" is an anagram of "Enter the Dragon".
Hancock Therapy is an unlicensed transdimensional health care service owned and operated by an artificial intelligence based on the film Hancock starring Will Smith.
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