February 19
Better Than News
12 Angry Exorcists is an American supernatural legal drama film directed by William Friedkin and Sidney Lumet, and starring Max von Sydow and Lee J. Cobb.
The Wordler is a 2022 American superhero film about about a word puzzle author who targets Gotham's elite.
"Uninitialized" is a song by the techno-linguistic thrash band Semiotic Tendencies.
"Don't Stand So Close to Pain" is a song by the British rock band the Police.
ZZ Dan was an American jazz-rock band comprising Steely Dan and ZZ Top.
Beyond Plausible
"All the Monkeys I Had are Gone" is a song by the Canadian band The Deep Dark NFTs.
Alien: First Commandment is a 1979 religious science fiction horror film written and directed by Ridley Scott.
In Other Words
Aphid Twin is a British composer, DJ, and aphid researcher. He is best known for his idiosyncratic work with incertae sedis.
Are You Sure
• ... that mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe?
Topic of the Day
Books
Go Ask Alice Blue is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a color addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive pigmentation.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for The Prisoner is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients who have extraordinary relationships with the British television series The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan.
The Happy Cooker is a cookbook-memoir by erotic chef Caviar Hollandaise, published by Gnomon Chronicles in its Erotic Kitchen Secrets Series.
