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A kind of eventful week since the last issue, amirite? A possible owner revolt, a thrilling yet sparsely-attended and underpromoted race at Chicagoland, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!

But it's September now, and that means that it's time to leave all of that in our rear-view and look forward to OMIGOSH OMIGOSH PAUL TRACY IS BACK IN THE SERIES! (faints) This is the best Canadian thing to happen to September since NHL training camp!

Phew. Okay, now that we've had our Snoopy Dance for the day, let's get straight to our selections from the blogosphere to act as icing on the cake.

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There are rumors to the effect that this weekend's race at Chicagoland Speedway might be the last, and people seem to be pretty upset about that.

For my part, the only circular-shaped things in Chicago that I really care about are the pizzas that issue forth from the ovens at Gino's East. If you've ever wanted to know what a tongue-gasm feels like, you will want to fly post-haste to Chicago and head downtown for a Gino's deep dish.

I've really got to stop posting these articles around lunchtime. *eats desk calendar*

This week's succulent pepperoni-laden extra-cheese-topped pan full of bloggy yumslices follows the jump...

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Between Tony Cotman being hired as the new rules czar and Texas Motor Speedway turning one of their IndyCar events into a weak-sauce version of the NASCAR All-Star Race (or the annual Daytona Twin 125s), it hasn't been the usual totally boring off-week that we usually get. Oh, sure, there was plenty of the same "Guess where I used the bathroom last!" and "What a MONSTER workout I just had, time to go relax in my jacuzzi full of Benjamins" stuff on Twitter, but my point is that there was some substantive news out there in the vast non-race-week wasteland.

But since this site is a blog and this article is the Paddock Pulse, we'll have nothing to do with all of that substantive news business today. Just the best of the blogosphere from the past week to warm and comfort you in the way only blogs can!

Hit the jump to begin your warm-and-comforting journey...

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There are plenty of good reasons to spend a day or two cruising the IndyCar blogosphere. Mine currently just happen to be a) a nasty stomach virus and b) outside temperatures that approach the melting point of lead. Seriously, I just cooked an egg over the sidewalk. Not on the sidewalk, over it. SIX FEET over it.

That said, there's so much good stuff out there that you shouldn't wait for repeated projectile vomiting and third-degree foot burns to indulge yourself in some premium bloggy goodness. So get reading, gentle readers. Get reading!

Oh. Links after the jump.

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In preparing for this week's edition of The Paddock Pulse, I happened upon VERSUS.com's headlines from the past week and found an item called "Tracking the IndyCar Web." Now, normally I'm a fierce proponent of the maxim that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery," but in this case VERSUS annoyed me for several reasons:

• There's not enough snark in the article recapping.
• There is an egregious over-reliance on VERSUS content and very little on the rest of the blogosphere.
• There is no mention at all of me in there.

So, for that reason, I'm going to be suing the pants off of VERSUS for stealing my idea and what's more doing it poorly, because that's how I roll - righteous indignation that can only be headed off through bribery or link-sharing.

This week's links after the jump.

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Come, fellow travelers, let us traipse anew down the path towards Blogtopia, that wondrous and highly narcotized realm which makes Puff the Magic Dragon's hometown look like a latrine bucket straight from The Suck.

This week, we have all the usual suspects and they're all talking about one thing: CREAMED CORN. That stuff will block you up like no one's busines-- what? You said "blockage." Ohhhhhhhh. "BlockING." That makes more sense now. I was getting worried about you there for a minute.

Links following a very tiny jump.

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I'm not usually a sentimental man (*hides video clip of himself sobbing like a girl through that part in Up when Carl is alone at his wife's funeral*) but remember last week, when The Paddock Pulse was full of hysterically excited, hysterically disappointed, and hysterically apathetic responses to the ICONIC chassis announcement?

Good times... good times.

This week, we're back to all of that boring old incisive analysis and pertinence and interesting reading. Don't worry, if things get too dull we can always go out and start another Twitter war.

Links after the jump...

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There's nothing like a little change to make an IndyCar fan run screaming in terror and the IndyCar press start pointing at the sky like Chicken Little. Poor Randy Bernard. You'd think he had had enough bull working with the PBR (HAH! THAT'S RIGHT, MOFOS, I TOTALLY BUSTED OUT ANOTHER PBR PUN!!!).

Anyway, it's no use trying to link to anything else besides 2012 IndyCar announcement stuff from the IndyCar blogosphere today because... well, there isn't anything else, really. Hell, TrackForum is still rebuilding from the glowing radioactive remains left behind in the aftermath of the hologram-erific Droid X infomercial model unveiling glorified PowerPoint presentation and seminar. So yeah, there was a little bit of reaction.

Links and abbreviated snark after the jump...

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