April 20
Better Than News
Rivers of Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the fifth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the only Red Hot Chili Peppers album to feature British Member of Parliament Enoch Powell.
A Room With a View 2 is a 1999 romance thriller film starring Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, and Edward Norton.
Salty No. 5 is a chemtrail-themed perfume with notes of Mennen Speed Stick and fried bologna.
The Passion of the Binks is a 2004 American science fiction comedy-religion film about a young ascetic Jew (Jar Jar Binks) who is betrayed and crucified as the Emperor has foreseen.
Beyond Plausible
The Bad Bear Omens is a 1976 supernatural horror comedy film starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Lee Remick, and Gregory Peck.
A Quiet Tweet is a 2018 American horror social media film starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski.
The Many Vocal Instructors of Darth Vader is a short instructional filmstrip about the thousands of vocal instructors who have lost their lives to Darth Vader over contract violations.
In Other Words
Rosemary's Nazi is a 1968 political horror film starring Mia Farrow and Adolph Hitler.
Are You Sure
• ... that the Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961?
• ... that Clandestiphrine is a transdimensional drug which amplifies the user's will to conceal events and misdirect attention which is widely used by police and military agencies to improve the outcome of covert operations, and that in with large, extended doses, illegal paramilitary operations can be entirely concealed from public awareness?
Selected Anniversaries
1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Grimaldi, along with Riccioli, will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.
1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. Tschichold will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1915: Nuclear physicist Donald J. Hughes born. Hughes will be one of the signers of the Franck Report in June, 1945, recommending that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.
1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. Spencer-Brown will write the unorthodox and influential Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".
1979: A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing as many as a hundred people. Soviet authorities will cover up the event; all medical records of the victims will be removed in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention.
Topic of the Day
Fashion
What sort of man wears Esquire Socks? is a public awareness campaign which raises awareness of Esquire Socks and unwritten sumptuary laws.
"The unexfoliated skin is not worth shaving" is a philosophical-hygienic assertion by Socrates.
"If you sniff long into laundry, the laundry also sniffs you" is an assertion by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
The Greaves of Defending Against Cthulhu are a pair of transdimensional corporations which conceal the wearer from the malefic supernatural entity Cthulhu.
2001: A 70's Odyssey is a short documentary film about the unofficial privacy, health, and hygiene issues faced by two astronauts (Frank Bowman and David Poole) when a rift in the space-time continuum drastically raises dress hemlines in the workplace.
The Man with the Golden Musket (1974): James Bond must recover the Storax Toga Lei, a breakthrough fashion solution to contemporary aesthetic shortages, before criminally deranged fashion designer Canna Fracas Orgasmicraises hemlines to the waist.
Sea-Monkey Crowns are symbolic adjunct to the royal majesty of Sea-Monkey kings and queens. Disclaimer: Sea-Monkeys not included. For external use only. Actual Sea-Monkey regalia may differ from crowns shown.
