March 4
Better Than News
Brewster McCloud & Mrs. Miller is an American revisionist Western black comedy film directed by Robert Altman and starring Bud Cort, Julie Christie, Warren Beatty, and Sally Kellerman.
Networktown is an American neo-noir thriller drama film about a ruthless entrepreneur (Faye Dunaway) who uses her computer network company to track down "the man with the broken nose".
Before the Devil Knows You're Taking Lives is a psychological crime thriller directed by J. Caruso and Sidney Lumet, starring Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Angelina Jolie, and Kiefer Sutherland.
The Silence of Laura Mars is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film a young FBI trainee who is hunting a glamorous fashion photographer who sees real-time visions of the murders of her friends and colleagues.
Time Enough in Layers: A geologist (Meredith Burgess-Shale) unleashes a global nuclear holocaust in order to find a rare trilobite. (The Twilight Zone: Forbidden Episodes)
Edward Jazzhands is a 1990 American fantasy dance film about an artificial humanoid named Edward (Johnny Depp), an unfinished creation who aspires to perform a jazz hands dance number with Bob Fosse.
Do Empires Dream of Electric Slaves? (original title: The Empire Never Ended) is a 1968 collection of essays about the history of empires by American sociologist Philip K. Dick.
Beyond Plausible
"The Lady Don't Bind" is a song by the Talking Heads about a quantum state of a particle subject to a potential such that the particle has a tendency to not remain localized in one or more regions of space.
Minty Fresh Potato Chips is a variety of potato chips distributed by Gnomon Chronicles Industries.
In Other Words
Soylent Yellow is a 1973 American agricultural dystopian thriller film about a murder investigation involving the extinction of Cavendish bananas.
It's a fine line between satire and fact. The finer the better.
Are You Sure
• ... that physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman made important contributions to theoretical cosmology following Albert Einstein's discovery of general relativity?
• ... that mathematician Hing Tong made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem?
• ... that Stillsuit of the Night is a 1982 neo-noir psychological thriller film about a Suk doctor (Roy Scheider) who falls in love with a Fremen (Meryl Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients?
Selected Anniversaries
1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
Stillsuit of the Night is a 1982 neo-noir psychological thriller film about a Suk doctor (Roy Scheider) who falls in love with a Fremen (Meryl Streep) who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients.
2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
Topic of the Day
Queen
"Some Blood Moon to Love" is a song by Queen 1.1.
America's Theme Song is "We Are the Champions" by Queen.
Queerosmith is a theoretical rock band comprising Queen and Aerosmith.
