27 Feburary 2018Catching up on RSS after a stomach bug

I've been grappling with a stomach bug the past few days, which was as good a reason as any to unplug from everything I could for a little. Two things I thought were notable as I caught up on my RSS feeds:

Donald Glover Can't Save You. I lost track of his career after Community--and this article hints that there is a bigger story to tell about that particular series--so this profile was enlightening. I'll cop to not even having Atlanta on my radar, but this piece convinced me I needed to watch.

I Went To The Olympics and All I Got Was This Tentative Sense of Hope. I have always loved the Olympics--the weirder the sport, the more I want to see it--but the toll they take on the hosting cities and all the corruption pervading the IOC has made that love problematic, to say the least. I liked this article mostly for the small peek it offered into what it's like to go to an Olympics as a local. As a TV watcher, it was a little -- worrying isn't the right word for it? -- that the ads were so repetitive; to me, a sign that Big Corps don't think Americans watch them, so nobody except big-ticket sponsors are buying. But what do I know about the television industry?

p.s. Just taking a few days away from the news really reinforces the absurd quality that headlines have taken on in the past 402 days. Try it if you haven't.