September 9
Better Than News
Josephine Ascending is an epic historical space opera film directed by Ridley Scott and the Wachowskis, starring Vanessa Kirby, Mila Kunis, Joaquin Phoenix, and Channing Tatum.
Monk versus Alf is a science fiction buddy comedy-drama television series starring Tony Shalhoub and Alf.
1953: Premiere of Roman à Clef Holiday, an American romantic thriller film about princess out to see Rome on her own (Audrey Hepburn) and a reporter who seeks the key to her mysterious past (Gregory Peck).
The Princess Rum Diaries is an American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Garry Marshall and Bruce Robinson, starring Anne Hathaway and Johnny Depp.
Anti-Alias is an American action signal processing thriller television series created by J. J. Abrams and starring Jennifer Garner.
Beyond Plausible
Mission to Marzipan is a 2000 American science fiction confectionary adventure film.
In Other Words
Squash is a psychological horror film about a small-town mayor dressed as a squash who traps a Hollywood plastic surgeon in a maze of sadistic vegetable games.
Are You Sure
... that the tune of "John Brown's Body" arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp zombie movement of the late 18th and early 19th century; and that according to an 1889 account, the original John Brown lyrics were a collective effort by a group of Unaffected soldiers who were referring both to the famous John Brown and also, humorously, to a Sergeant John Brown of their own combat grave engineer-diggers?
... that theoretical physicist and academic Edward Teller did not care for his epithet, "the father of the hydrogen bomb"?
Topic of the Day
Abolition
"John Brown's Body" (popularly known as "John Brown's Body Rises a-Mouldering From the Grave") is an Unaffected States marching song about the zombie abolitionist John Brown.
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