Tiger, KG/Paul Pierce, Ed Park

Three days in a row of the most magnificent entertainments: the U.S. Open playoff on Monday, the Celtics win (woo hoo!) on Tuesday, and reading Ed Park’s Personal Days on Wednesday. Park wrote a true comic masterpiece. Park’s office sketches reminded me very much of working at Routledge in 2002, but I guess Park’s genius is that it applies to life in just about any office (esp. since the industry the characters work in remains unnamed). Park’s novel ends with a long, one-sentence letter from one character to another and it reminded me in some ways of another wonderful post-script.

I really enjoyed KG’s post-game interview, as well as Slate’s informative dissection of it. A friend who I watched the game with cheerfully described the interview, as it was happening, as “the 8th level of…….*something*”, which is not quite what Levin and Swansburg at Slate are getting at, but it’s in the same galaxy.