Almanac of Absurdities for 9/1/2010

Le Voyage dans la lune, (A Trip to the Moon) a 14 minute long silent film by Georges & Gaston Melies is released in Paris on this day in 1902. It is the first Science Fiction movie. French Speaking, fin de siecle protogeeks, wearing black, camp out at the box office, smoking clove cigarettes and drinking Absinthe. Actually I made that part up. Its birthdays for Edgar Rice Burroughs and Lily Tomlin.