BOLLOCKS:  Longtime ALOTT5MA Fave Jay Rayner does not care for London's new Smith & Wollensky:

Our waitress, an escapee from Hawksmoor, is lovely – efficient, charming and utterly wasted here. She has been sent out on to the floor in a jacket she admits is about three sizes too large for her and is already stained. Either the management gives a damn about the dignity of its staff or it really doesn’t. Still, she speaks fluent Smith & Wollensky, intoning the oft-repeated figure that theirs are the best 2% of all USDA steaks. God help the other 98%. We try to love it, really we do, but we just can’t. Clearly the poor animal died twice: once in the slaughter house, once on the grill. We give up and hope she doesn’t look too distraught. Curiously, the menu announces in small print that items “may” be cooked to order. May? Only may? Don’t put yourself out, guys.

THERE'S AN INDIA EXPERT I WANT TO BRING IN ...  R.I.P. to Roger Rees, who died yesterday at age 71, who gave us Lord John Marbury and so much more.

OIL CHECK: As is often the case after a Season of Game of Thrones, I end up with HBO for a month or two before I get around to canceling it.  I never seem to get around to working my way through the shows that I should: the Wire and such, but end up poking through their documentaries and such.  Anyway, I clicked on to The Rock's "Ballers" last night and ended up watching all three episodes.

I can't help by find Dwayne Johnson as an ex-NFL player turned financial manager.  He's of course as charming as hell, mind you.  But I can't decide if this show is good or just sort of a hot mess.  It's certainly fun.  I like the drama on this side of the athlete's life - post-career depression, egos and inadequacy, and all that.  I like the characters, I like the actors.  But I'm not sure I like the show or not -- the story arcs are thin interludes to The Rock flashing a smile or being awesome, after all.  But I'll keep at it.

UNHAPPY MEAL:  It sure sounds like one of the McDonald's Minions toys is saying what the fuck?

EVERYONE'S LAUGHING, AND RIDING, AND CORNHOLING EXCEPT BUSTER: The World Championships of Cornhole are taking place right now in Knoxville.

TELL ME MORE, TELL ME MORE:  Fox's Grease: Live has found its Danny Zuko--Broadway (Frank in Catch Me If You Can and Gabe in Next to Normal) and Graceland star Aaron Tveit, who'll appear opposite Julianne Hough and Vanessa Hudgens.  Clearly, "plausibly high school aged" was not on the casting team's priority list.

THIS IS IT, THE APOCALYPSE, WHOA-OH:  Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive," already the longest-running song in Billboard chart history, has now become the sixth single ever to hit Diamond status (~10 million sales, but they also incorporate streaming somehow).  I'll hide the others below the fold; welcome to the new age: