We're going Mushroom Soup today — and for those of you who don't know what that means, it means this: The proprietor of this blog is very busy and unlikely to be posting at his usual pace. It means that barring some unexpected, can't-wait obit, this may be the extent of the new content here today. Why is this denoted by Mushroom Soup? No one knows and no one cares.
No, I'm not worried that Donald Trump is going to beat Hillary Clinton, nor do I think recent polls really point in that direction. It's 179 days until Election Day. Much will happen that will render as irrelevant everything that seemed relevant in May. Donald said the other day he's going to carry the state of New York. You know New York: The state that has gone two-for-one for the Democrat in the last half-dozen presidential elections? Yeah, that New York.
And hey, how long is it going to be before everyone catches on that Trump statements have a shelf life of three days max? He says it on Monday and by Thursday, even he doesn't think it exists anymore. Heck, lately he's been saying things like that the U.S. can default on its debts and his own staff is walking it back within the hour. It's all just noise to get coverage today and his supporters — so far — don't seem to care that he reverses positions like a porn star.
What else can I write about here before I get back to paying work? I'm liking Stephen Colbert's show a tad less since their new showrunner did some revamping. I don't see that it's made any difference in the ratings yet.
This evening, Turner Classic Movies is running X – The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, the cheapo 1963 Roger Corman horror movie with Ray Milland, Don Rickles and Harold J. Stone. One day many years ago, I found myself watching it on TV with Mr. Stone in the room. His character dies about ten minutes into it and he said as we watched that scene, "I guess I was lucky. I didn't have to be in the rest of the movie." At the time, this film made a lot of money because moviegoers thought (wrongly) they were going to see a lot of nudity. I'm surprised no one has remade it today when they could.
That's all for now. Back soon.