July 8

Better Than News

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  I'm Your Ice Cream Shaft is a musical comedy-horror film starring Richard Roundtree and David Lee Roth.

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  JART is an American rock supergroup composed of Joan Jett and Heart.

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  The Cestus III Hillbillies is a science fiction comedy television series.

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  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.

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  The Deleuze Family Circus is a syndicated comic strip about the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.

Beyond Plausible

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  Brreta is an American detective television series about an unorthodox plainclothes police HVAC engineer (Badge #609).

In Other Words

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  Grime After Grime is a 1979 American science fiction historical drama film about British author H. G. Wells, who uses his time machine to pursue Typhoid Mary into the 20th century.

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?

Topic of the Day

Gumby

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  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.

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  Swamp Gumby is a 1982 American superhero clay animation film written and directed by Wes Craven.

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  Moxie is an American soft drink animation franchise, featuring a clay humanoid character flavored with gentian root extract.

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  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.