PostConsumer Culture Club #2—The Week of September 6-September 12

PostConsumer Culture Club: A list of everything we at PostConsumer Reports have been digesting this week, with brief commentary. Hopefully, we can culture something good in you. Happy PostConsuming!

Here is what we watched the week of September 6 through September 12.

TV: Late Show With Stephen Colbert
I made a plan to watch every night of the first week of Stephen Colbert's turn at the Late Show helm. So far I have not missed a show yet and so far I am really enjoying myself. I posted a longer review, which you can read here: The First Week of Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

Aching For the Promised Land (England, that is)

I teared up today. 

Overwhelmed with emotion I about lost it right there at my mom's house. But don't worry, I reigned things in and got my gushy side under control. I was watching tennis after all, in Britain at that, where it's not prudent to betray too much of one's emotions. But really, I wanted to cry at the beauty and grandeur of it all.

Realization: My Kids Will Never Become Professional Athletes

Noell Pikus-Pace, winner of the silver medal in the skeleton at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games (Photo from the L.A. Times)

Alternate Title 1: Are Professional Athletes Grotesque? —David Foster Wallace on Sports

Alternate Title 2: Realization: I Don't Have What it Takes to be a Pro-Athlete Dad 

With one very simple technique I have trained my sons to feel like champions: