To get a feeling for what being sick in America is really like, and to help us understand the findings of our poll with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, NPR did a call-out on Facebook. We asked people to share their experiences of the health care system, and within 24 hours, we were flooded with close to 1,000 responses.

myawesomegettinghealthyblog:

Inspired by the-healthy-anglophile and her BBC workout games (check them out, they’re awesome) I made a slightly more lengthy one for Community. It has less reps and excercises, but more things that trigger you to excercise. I just found a bunch of drinking games and modified them a bit….

popculturebrain:

The more I read about this, the more upset I get.

“Community” under Port and Guarascio may turn out to be a proficient sitcom (and could, in Sony’s wildest dreams, run for several more years the way that “West Wing” and “NYPD Blue” did without their original voices), but it won’t be… that. And while Harmon’s creative lunacy didn’t help “Community” find a larger audience, it made the handful of people who do watch mad with devotion for a version of the show that may have just ceased to exist.

I think one of the most fascinating things that’s happened here is the full transition of television into an auteur’s medium. Until the 1980s, people didn’t typically know who made the shows they watched. It wasn’t like film, where a director’s name is attached to the title and largely held responsible. Aside from a few notable names (Lucille Ball) shows belonged to networks and studios, created as they are today (to an extent) by a team.

Thanks to the rise of quality television in the 80s and the likes of MTM, Steven Bochco, and David Milch, audiences and critics became more aware of the creators behind shows and accredited them with the quality. Today this has reached widespread practice and full potential in shows like Louie, Curb, and Mad Men.

All this said, it’s quite apparent that Sony (and to a lesser extent NBC) are operating on a very old standard, firmly planted in the past. Not even the recent past, but one of over 30 years ago. Based on the reports, it seems Harmon may mot have been the best at management, but modern audiences are too savvy to blindly let a show with a distinct voice switch hands. Sony needs to step into the modern era.