RIP TGIF

One of life's guilty pleasures was watching Anthony Bourdain traipse around the world, reveling in local food, quite often street offerings. At various times, he drew not laudatory comparisons with what he ate there to American equivalents; the American versions he lumped into the category "TGI McFunster's". I admit that in times past I and the little woman spent time at one of those establishments, but not for the food and/or drink, but the satellite video trivia. Don't recall the name of it, alas.

But now we find the list of locations being axed, some here in The Land of Steady Habits. What's surprising is that the one in this shithole town is spared, but the one in the tonier town of Newington is not; off with its head. A puzzlement. The same seems true of the dead ones in Taxachusetts; they're among the nicer suburbs of Boston. One/only in Columbia, MD is also listed. For those not in the know, Columbia was/is a semi-ritzy 'planned community' attached to Washington. When I was a Fed, Columbia was a town for the upper-crust bureaucrat. Hard times have fallen?