I haven't been out to Burbank much since The Pandemic descended on us so I was unaware that Simmzy's, which I wrote about in the previous post, is now a restaurant called Brew Brothers. As dozens of you have now informed me.
Turner Classic Movies is announcing some sort of new look or new policy or new something for their channel beginning September 1. What is it? I haven't the foggiest. Maybe they're going to institute a rule about not showing Run Silent, Run Deep more than once every three weeks. I looked at what I could see of the September schedule and it looks like any other month at TCM — a mix of films I've never seen, never heard of or already own on DVD. So we'll see what the Big Change is.
And William Saletan has a good article up about how the people complaining about what the Biden Administration has done in Afghanistan are arguing the opposite of everything they advised when it wasn't the Biden Administration doing it. We're living in an era where it's okay to reverse everything you ever said if it'll help you slam your political opponents.