Blogorama! (Links & Highlights of the Week)
Happy Friday, everyone!
It’s been quite a week for yours truly. As you’ll see below, I’ve been sharing my insights over on the Troy blog as well as this ol’ thing. Also, the MANville podcast launched its new website, with much respect and full credit to all the hard work of This is College?! contributor Erin Morelli.
Speaking of MANville, we have secured none other than the area’s #1 local stand-up comic as voted by the readers of Metroland (and fellow TU blogger) Greg Aidala as a future guest.
The latest episode, where we discuss everything from Nature vs. Nurture to Juliette Lewis, is now available. Seriously, this podcast just gets better with each episode, and I have a blast doing it. Give it a listen (we’re also in the iTunes Music Store)
But enough about me. Onwards to Blogorama!
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AWARDS & CITATIONS
TIMES UNION STORY OF THE WEEK:
Troy school official dismissed after degree revoked (Scott Waldman)
COMMENT OF THE WEEK:
“In any discourse, the best consequences will flow from the greatest amount of input. Even the ’stupid’ input counts.” – GenWar [link]
ALBUM OF THE WEEK:
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TU BLOG HIGHLIGHTS
On the Troy Blog – Cool Storefront: Prism Glass Works | Troy Police Implement Community Policing Initiative | Troy Superintendent, School Officials Failed to Vet Plagiarist Whose PhD Was Revoked
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See David Cassidy at Humane Society Picnic (Dog-Owned Life) I woke up with pups this morning?
The Night That Stars Fell On Wunsapana Farms (Chuck Miller)
Work After War (Rosemary Armao)
Silver Hills Chef to Re-Open Illium Cafe in Troy (Table Hopping)
What a Difference A Week Makes…or Does It? (Libby Post)
Cyberchange (Amanda Talar)
Live Cat Found ‘Marinating’ in Man’s Trunk (Dog-Owned Life)
Which Gym Do You Go To? (Savings Source)
Happy Birthday to Us (The Funnies)
How Do Kids Spend Their Two Million Minutes? (Lori Cullen)
Walk With Me (via Lori Van Buren) (Farm Life)
Running in the Dark: Tips for Night Owls (Runners Bl0g)
New Troy Restaurant Tour to Benefit Troy Boys & Girls Club (Table Hopping)
Gotta Have Heart (Will King, Schenectady Blog)
Cosmetic Surgery on Animals (Animal Rights)
Sicko has Concussion (Mark McGuire)
Back to School Clothes (Savings Source)
Slides, Cassettes, and a Script: Reassembling a 1977 Documentary (Chuck Miller)
Has the Digital Age Made Youth Stupid or Smarter? (Lori Cullen)
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ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET
Locally
August Recruitment Night (Hellions of Troy) Ladies interested in joining the Hellions of Troy, check it out!
Tracy Morgan Coming to the Palace (All Over Albany)
Update on the Renovation of the Houston Field House in Troy (Without a Peer)
An Open Letter to Capital District Chefs (FUSSYlittleBLOG)
AFRA: What Fall Trends Excite You? (All Things Ellie)
Comedy, Intentional & Unintentional
The Cat Whisperer (Julie Klausner) NSFW for language
How to Fight the Sandman (John DeVore)
Fancy Cat Wears Permanent Top Hat (Huffington Post)
Conan O’Brien: Advice from Johnny Carson (Hulu)
Great Expectations (Cake Wrecks)
Movies & Television
Mike Tyson Only Did “The Hangover” to Score More Drugs (Cinematical)
Celebrities Who Couldn’t Rest in Peace (Cinematical)
Letter from MLK to Sammy Davis, Jr. (Letters of Note)
The Fantasy/Sci-Fi TV List (The Torch Online)
Great “60 Minutes” Interview with Jackie Gleason
On the Human Condition
James Baldwin debates William F. Buckley at Cambridge, 1965 (We Who Are About to Die)
Spinal Cord Regeneration a Success (BBC News)
Christopher Hitchens’s Battle with Cancer (Roger Ebert)
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ART
Somewhere in My Surreal Dreams (My Modern Metropolis)
Dirty Car? Turn the Dusty Road Into Art (WebUrbanist)
Pulp Cover Art (Golden Age Comic Book Stories)
Apocalyptic Art (WebUrbanist)
Thomas Hafner (Monster Brains)
Susanna Majuri (Design You Trust)
Wizards in an Alley (Sean Andrew Murray) This guy is just amazing.
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MMA
Strikeforce Middleweight Tournament Happening After All (Mixed Marshall Arts)
Pictures from UFC 117 (CageWriter)
One Night Tournament Sounds Great, but Is It a Relic Best Left in MMA’s Past? (MMAFighting.com)
Ask the Fight Doc: Why Not Single Night Tournaments? (MMA Junkie)
UFC 118 Video has Subtitles for James Toney (CageWriter)
Dos Santos May Not Have Power to Beat Lesnar (CageWriter)
Ask the Fight Doc: Is Roy Nelson’s Weight Holding Him Back? (MMA Junkie)
Randy Couture Not Buying James Toney’s Stories of Gym Submissions (MMAFighting.com) FWIW, neither do I.
Controversial Former IFL Boss Jay Larkin Passes Away at 59 (MMAFighting)
UFC 117’s Three Stars: Silva, Sonnen, and Struve (MMAFighting.com)
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Got any other links you’d like to share? Put ‘em up in the comments.
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Thanks Kevin – always appreciate being listed in the Blogorama!
I’m going to gratuitously plug my own blog because it is currently breaking the internet in half!
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Thanks for the link, Kevin!
Kevin – Thanks for sharing my link, I appreciate it! :)
Also, James Toney is a riot, right? haha
No, guys, thank YOU for providing the content!
And Will - he’s a freaking riot, even if he doesn’t intend to be. Yesterday during the UFC conference call he told everyone he was going to weigh 290 pounds when he entered the cage. 290!
Kevin – WTF?, 290lbs?!? He’s crazy.
He spent his formidable years in boxing fighting at 160 & 168. Wow.
haha, exactly.
FWIW, Steve Cofield over at Yahoo told me he weighs at most 235. Which is still on the big side considering that he used to fight at 160, but a far cry from almost three hundred pounds.
Yeah, the one thing he has always had is a mouth.
Like you said, he’s hysterical whether he means to be or not.
Thanks for the link, Kevin!
James Toney’s so heavy, when he steps in the octagon, it becomes an octa-groan…
James Toney’s so heavy, he turned down an offer to change his name to James Two Thousand Pounds-ey…
Will King, Schenectady Blog- I heard he is one sexxxxy mo’fo :)