Required Reading

• So how did people feel about the fast courts in Bercy?  Me no likee, but I am 100% in favor of more varied surfaces.
• Tignor writes about The Implosion Heard 'Round The World.
• People be retiring like it's Palm Beach.  Kata, T-Dent, and rumor has it that Douchebag Chuck will call it quits on Wednesday.
• This Ticker post cracked my shit up.  Granted, it was 4am and I was mildly unsober, but still.
• Quick!  Someone get Katie some smelling salts!
• Did JJ's septum deviate up into her eye?
• You want to know why I never ask players to join Twitter?  Because of people like this.  Threatening other fans, tweeting the player incessently, not understanding that you're creeping the shit out of the whole world.  HOLY FUCKING SHIT, YOU CRAZY.  Tweet responsibly, kids.
• Speaking of creepy fandom... Corgi!
• Non-Required Reading: I spent some time this week going throught the McSweeney's archives and found some of my favorites from years gone by: Notes on "Sweet Child O' Mine" as Delivered to Axl Rose by His Editor, Names of Poses for American Apparel Models, and How To Title a Novel.
• Non-Required Reading: Seriously, what *are* you supposed to do when someone insults you but the insult ain't insulting? 
• Non-Required Reading:  In honor of HP7 opening Friday: The Mythologies Behind Harry Potter.