BUT WHAT OF THE SOUTHWICK JOG? The Awl explores some of America's strangest map borders. For more, see the Wiki page on border irregularities of the United States.

#15 -- MICHAEL VICK, MNF, WASHINGTON:  Joe Posnanski ranks the 14 most dominant individual performances in sports history.

BY THE DAWNZER LEE LIGHT: On a long weekend that gives us both the Fourth of July and Canada (you may cease rocking your body now, per Robin Sparkles), let's go with an appropriate playlist theme--songs that are about America (or your home country). I'll offer two to start us off--one from the fine folks behind South Park (NSFW!), and some Bruce (yes, I know if you listen to the lyrics, it's subversive and all, but still).

ON A PERSONAL NOTE: Friends, if you've got sharp, uncontrollable pain on the side of your lower back, radiating to the front where it feels kinda like constipation and mostly like you'd like to die, and the nausea and pain has gotten to a point where you're wondering if you should go to the hospital—go to the hospital.  You might have a kidney stone, as I learned two nights ago.

I say this not to attract your sympathy, even on the apparently-I-can't-drink-so-much-iced-tea-anymore front, but rather to relay a simple message: being macho is overrated. Doctors and nurses are good. They have morphine. It gets better.

WILL IT FEATURE THE B SHARPS AND HERE COMES TREBLE? Jason Moore, best known for directing "Avenue Q" and "Shrek The Musical," as well as directing episodes of Everwood and Brothers and Sisters will make his feature debut with Pitch Perfect, "a musical comedy set in the world of college a cappella groups" produced by Elizabeth Banks and her husband, with a screenplay from Kay Cannon (who wrote the "Jackie Jormp-Jomp" episode of 30 Rock). I'm quite sure that alone has already sold many of y'all tickets--but who (aside from NPH and Anne Hathaway) needs to appear in this movie?

"THE BACK IS A GREAT CANVAS": It's not just for manscaping anymore -- enter the world of Hairy Back Art.

SIMPLE ANSWERS TO BASIC QUESTIONS: Via frequent reader Megan:

I'm a frequent reader of the blog and have noticed you spend some time on grammar issues. Just wondered what you think of the word, "agreeance". As in, "I am in agreeance with you." My aunt insists it's proper word usage, but I think it makes a whole lot more sense to just say, "I agree." 

The word is in the dictionary, but I just think it's stupid and would love to have some back up that agrees with me, since my whole family has taken to using the word/phrase just to annoy me.

This is not a word.  Webster's 3d Unabridged doesn't recognize it; it apparently was popularized at the 2003 Grammy Awards when Fred Durst stated "I just hope we are in agreeance that this war should go away as soon as possible," but he has no more power to make this a word than he did to render "biskit" "bizkit" as a proper spelling. The word is "agreement," and don't let those Oxford twits tell you otherwise.