February 28
Better Than News
Fitzcarraldo, the Wrath of God is a drama adventure film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski.
"Overlook Karma!" is a song by John Lennon and Stephen King.
Thumper King is an international chain of spiced hamburger fast food restaurants.
From Russia With Laughs is a spy comedy television series starring Bob Newhart.
Beyond Plausible
Pulp Fission is a black comedy war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
In Other Words
Where's Toto? is a 1970 American black comedy film about the troubled relationship between the members of a band (Toto) and their senile mother (Ruth Gordon), who keeps interfering with their love lives.
Are You Sure
• ... that philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne popularized the essay as a literary genre?
• ... clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi was renowned in his lifetime for his mechanical engineering skills?
• ... that F5 is an artificial beverage derived from illegal mathematical functions?
Selected Anniversaries
1533: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne born. He will be one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1552: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi born. He will be recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1901: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling born.
1967: Modern dance geology company Rhizolith Group debuts a new work, "Coriolis Force and Particulate Deposit Patterns in Paleoglacial Sedimentary Deposits".
Topic of the Day
Batman
Dark Joker is a comedy buddy film about an angry clown who befriends a decadent sociopath.
Batman: the Premature Years is a supernatural nature television program hosted by Batman, King of the Bats. Premise: After his mother is murdered, eight-months-gestated Bruce Wayne is rescued by kindly bats and raised as one of their own. Starring Gary Coleman as the Kindly Bats.
