April 17

Coffee Cup.

Better Than News

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  Get Smarty is a dramatic American television series parodying the American gangster comedy film craze of the 1990s.

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  Friends X is an American science fiction television sitcom which revolves around six friends in their 20s and 30s who live with crippling superpowers.

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  The Pope's Gladiator is an epic historical supernatural horror film directed by Ridley Scott and Julius Avery, and starring Russell Crowe.

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  Willy Wonka and the Elephant Man is an American drama film starring Gene Wilder and John Hurt.

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  You're Soaking In It is an erotic comedy-thriller film starring Madge from the famed Palmolive commercials.

Beyond Plausible

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  The Pressure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American Western geology disaster film about two downtrodden volcanologists (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) who join forces with a grizzled old prospector (Walter Huston) to prevent a catastrophic eruption.

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  My Mother the Core Sample is a fantasy geology sitcom television series.

In Other Words

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  Cybertrucks of the Planet of the Apes is a dystopian black comedy science fiction film about a billionaire (Elon Musk) who populates Mars with thousands his children by hundreds of different mothers. After millions of years of evolution, his descendants have become ape-like creatures with electric trucks which they must keep free of bird poop.

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  Flimber Jurbles is a poorly-documented phenomenon involving multi-colored tubes and ritual behaviors.

Are You Sure

• ... that scientist, inventor, and poet Piet Hein (who often wrote under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel", meaning "tombstone") is known for short poems, known as gruks or grooks, such as Consolation Grook, which reads:
"Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again."?

• ... that the Disambiguum is a transdimensional corporation in which all things and all ideas are disambiguated?

Selected Anniversaries

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  1598: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli born. Riccioli will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.

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  1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. Thornley will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.

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  1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

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  1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.

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  1996: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein dies. Hein proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.

Topic of the Day

Candy

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  Martian Pixy-Stix is a science fiction novel by American sociologist Philip K. Dick 1.1 about mental illness, the physics of time, and the dangers of sugar addiction.

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  Sisyphus versus the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

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  Canopic Snickers is an unlicensed transdimensional corporation which manifests itself as an ancient Egyptian candy bar with alleged life extension properties.

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  "Sweet Tooth, Soldier?" was a World War Two era health program initiated and run by the United States Army in an effort to (1) reduce sugar abuse by soldiers, and (2) create war-era art capable of out-competing Soviet post art.

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  Skittles are symbolic of late-stage consumerism is a political theory advanced by the [REDACTED] and their agents within the Greater Sol System Co-Prosperity Sphere.