Blogorama! (Links & Highlights of the Week)

Superman writes a Letter Not Sent to Lex Luthor.

Wow, what a week! I took the week off and, though I didn’t get to go down to New York City like I planned, I did get to do a lot of fun things and got a lot of writing (not blogging but real writing) done.

On my final weekday of my vacation, I’m going to buy new shoes and catch a matinee of “The Other Guys.” Then I’ll weep uncontrollably because my week’s almost over and all I have to show for it is a new pair of shoes.

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TIMES UNION STORY OF THE WEEK:

NXIVM Critic’s Plea Over Child Getting Little Attention from AG (James M. Odato)

COMMENT OF THE WEEK:

“I wish he [Antoine Dodson] were my brother instead of you.” – My Sister [link]

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TU BLOG HIGHLIGHTS

A Victory Greater Than We Ever Thought (Libby Post)

Bloomberg is Right About the Mosque (Roger Green)

Schott’s Harrison Cuello to be Featured on ESPN2 (Boxing in the Capital Region) The fight airs tonight; check local listings.

What Can Be Done to Revitalize Boxing? (Mark McGuire)

Study: Siblings Aren’t So Bad After All (Healthy Life)

Flying Your Pet? (Brad Shear)

Dressing Up for Dudes (J. Eric Smith)

The Movie Theater No One Will Ever Restore (Chuck Miller)

The Billionaire and the Biker Barbecue (Table Hopping)

You Have to Do the Work (Rosemary Armao)

Dog Saves Owner by Biting off His Toe (Dog Owned Life)

Here Comes Another One (Animal Rights) The Animal Rights blog has another new contributor.

My Friends, This Is for You (Bike Blog)

Inferno on the Hudson (Troy) My debut as a contributor to the Troy blog.

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ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET

New MANville Episode – Suicide Girls & Financial Planners! (MANville)

Listen to Daft Punk’s Entire “Tron: Legacy” Score (Cinematical)

Cap Rep Unexpectedly Closes “The Marvelous Wonderettes” (Nippertown)

The Bechdel Test (Complications Ensue) For determining how a TV show or movie treats women.

Sad News from Los Straightjackets (Nippertown)

Venture Bros. – Season 4, Vol. 2 trailer (Publick Nuisance) My tattoo is a reference to this show, and the second half of the current season kicks off September 12th.

Broadway and the Mosque (New York Times)

Remains of St. John the Baptist Found (BBC News)

Scrooge McDuck Stars in “Inception” (Disney Comics)

Things I Did Not Know Were Fetishes: Quicksand! (We Who Are About to Die)

Iggy Pop: “Our Gods are a**holes” (Letters of Note)

Naming Stars Since 1979 (We Who Are About to Die)

Classic Pop Culture Cereal (WebUrbanist) Mr. T, C3POs, and more!

Top-Notch Service (DozenRoses13) Rose brings up a valid point: why don’t we spend less time whining about crappy service at bad restaurants and more time talking up good service? (Answer: because it’s easier to be a brat and we’re lazy)

The Coconut Head (Jeff Pearlman)

Never Not Philosophical (Nazarativity)

Miss New York on Her Pro Gay Rights Platform (All Over Albany)

Soul Brother (This Isn’t Happiness)

Tortured Life of the World’s Greatest Athlete, Jim Thorpe (CNN)

DC Universe Online’s Game Trailer (DCUniverseOnline.com) I don’t care tuppens for video games, but boy is this animation wonderful.

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ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS

High Speed Photography (Cruzine)

The Sculptures & Illustrations of Russ White (Design You Trust)

Bernie Wrightson (Monster Brains)

Photographie – The Strange World of Todd Baxter (UFunk.net)

Book Sculpture (Fubiz)

A Life in Polaroids (Boing Boing) About a man who took a polaroid picture of every day of his life, up to and including the day he died of cancer at age 47.

20 Mind-Blowing Illustrations (UFunk.net)

Novartis “Reflections” Campaign by Tom Hussey (Design You Trust)

15 Beautiful Hand-Drawn (!) Websites (WebUrbanist)

Pedro Matos (BOOOOOOOM!)

Hard from the Heart (Design You Trust)

Fondation Pierre Berge – Yves St. Laurent (Luxe et Vanites)

Aalbert van der Schoor & Herve Tenot Vanities (Luxe et Vanites)

Grayson Castro (Vectro Ave.)

Mary Jane Ansell (personal site)

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MMA

Chael Sonnen: Lance Armstrong Used Drugs & Gave Himself Cancer (CageWriter) He’s finally gone over the edge, folks.

Did TMZ Mislead Everyone with the Roger Huerta Story? (Cage Potato)

Urijah Faber Stars in Commercial with “Eastbound & Down” star (CageWriter)

UFC on Versus 2’s Three Stars: Jones, Gomi and Oliveira (CageWriter)

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