There's a reason that chain is called HEB. I would hate to have that last name, but for the Butt family, I'm sure the hundreds of millions that they have eases the pain.

Close. They live in Plano (go PSHS Wildcats!). Jewel Osco was, I think, a Chicago-based chain that bought Skaggs in the late 80s/early 90s. They rebranded all the local Skaggs stores, then less than two years later, sold all their local stores to Albertsons, which promptly rebranded all their new acquisitions.

Yeah, and there are a ton of them. I don't even know where the nearest Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kreme is to my place, but I can easily find at least 4 hole-in-the-wall donut shops within 5 minutes. Of course, they all close at noon.

Meanwhile, here's there seems to be a Sonic every 10 feet.

The store near my parents' house was a long time ago a Skaggs Albertsons. Then it became a Skaggs Alpha Beta, then a Jewel Osco, then an Albertsons, and now it's being converted into an Asian market.

So I guess we've finally found what a dog's purpose is.

No, but I now remember the Robin Williams movie with the exact same premise, which I had successfully blocked from my memory.

Back in the early 90s, my mom tripped walking down some outdoor stairs and ended up shattering her leg. So yeah, stairs can be very scary.

I can't wait for him to be honored by his fellow castmates of his beloved classic sitcom In the House.

If what I think happened happened, it's pretty amazing he was able to pull it off.

Real People? Wow. I would never have dreamed that one would get dug out of the vaults and sent to streaming. I actually wouldn't mind seeing other early attempts at reality like That's Incredible make their way to the various platforms.

At least until they start signing big guest stars to appear in every other episode, and then throwing together some lame plot to justify the big guest star.

"OK, fellow diners! I need your opinion! Should I invite Kim Jane Um to have dinner here at the fabulous Mar-A-Lago resort where I can use my brilliant negotiating skills to get him to give us all of his weapons? Or should I just drop bombs all over Pingpong until he gets the message?"

How many screens does the theater have?

To be fair, she was the best thing about Die Another Day.

The conversation with the Australian PM about Australia's refugee policy reminded me of a different scene from the same episode.

I'm still disappointed that, during the Wizard of Oz craze, no one contacted me about my idea for Gale, Crow, Mann, and Lyon, Attorneys at Law, about the Emerald City law firm that fights for the little guys—and I don't mean Munchkins (though they'll fight for Munchkins as well).

Speaking of Bannon…one of the bizarre things lately, at least to me, is that he seems to have emerged as a voice of reason. Seemingly every time one of Comrade President's awful plans blows up in his face lately, it comes out that Bannon was opposed to it. Usually it emerges that Kushner, aka, the guy we all assumed…

To be fair, that was probably about $60 million more than anyone was expecting it to gross, and it is the highest grossing animated film not released by a major studio. Still, why the sequel doesn't go straight to Redbox is a mystery.

I suspect, considering the grosses of the first two, Fox was pretty confident that Apes wouldn't get lost. That said, yeah, it would probably have dominated August. Valerian probably still would have underperformed, but probably not nearly as badly.