February 20
Better Than News
Days of Wine and Meltdowns is an American romantic disaster thriller film directed by James Bridges and Blake Edwards, and starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Jane Fonda, and Wilford Brimley.
Wolfgang Mozart's Day Off is an American teen period biographical comedy-drama film directed by Miloš Forman and John Hughes, starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Matthew Broderick, and Jeffrey Jones.
Fitzcarraldo Now is an epic war adventure film directed by Werner Herzog and Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Klaus Kinski, Martin Sheen, and Marlon Brando.
My Three Sons: The Next Generation is a television series about three crime-fighting brothers from the future (ZZ Top) who must go back to the past to prevent their father (Fred MacMurray) from inventing the time machine.
The Red Skullton Show is an American television comedy/variety show hosted by entertainer and alleged supervillian Richard "Red Skull" Skelton.
Bourne Kong is a 2021 action-zoology film starring Matt Damon.
Bee Squad is a television show about an optimistic young beekeeper (Jason Statham) on a mission to save the Earth.
Beyond Plausible
Dune Girls is a 1997 British musical drama film about a Bene Gesserit girl group who go on tour across Arrakis.
Live and Let a Clockwork Orange Die is a dystopian spy thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess and Ian Fleming.
In Other Words
"Neutrino Ghost Howled" is an anagram of "The World is Not Enough".
Are You Sure
• ... that the Soviet Union's Mir spacecraft orbited the Earth for 15 years, and was occupied for ten of those years?
• ... that physicist and academic Laura Bassi championed Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy in Italy?
• ... that the documentary film Tubular Elves is loosely based on the non-fictional album Tubular Bells; and that the non-fictional album Tubular Bells accidentally contains Morse code sent to UK military submarines?
Topic of the Day
"Experimental Methods in Morphogenesis Research" is a monograph by ichthyologist and alleged time-traveler H.G. Whales.
Call me HTML is the iconic opening sentence of the novel Moby-Web.
"Spock is not coming back" is a short tragic poem by Karl Jones.
![Moby-Pink; or, The Girl is an 1851 novel featuring the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Orchid, for revenge on Moby Pink, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's penis at the [REDACTED].](/w/images/thumb/0/03/Moby-Pink.jpg/83px-Moby-Pink.jpg)
Moby-Pink; or, The Girl is an 1851 novel featuring the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Orchid, for revenge on Moby Pink, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's penis at the [REDACTED].
Scrimshaw abuse, sometimes known as ivory towering, is a patterned use of scrimshaw in which the scrimshander produces scrimshaw with images or side-effects which are harmful to themselves or others.