Blogorama! (Links & Highlights of the Week)

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Firstly, a thank you to the random stranger walking by in downtown Troy for inspiring a new phrase. For last night truly was jacket & booty shorts weather.

Welcome to Fall. A changing season has brought about changing attitudes. Some bloggers have left us, albeit temporarily, while others are joining the fold.

Much like the changing of leaves, the tree of the TU blogosphere is not passing. Rather, it is changing and goddamn this is one weak allegory.

Let’s just get to BLOGORAMA.

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COMMENT OF THE WEEK:

““Hey, Boo Boo, I’m gonna park this in your jellystone.” – Mike, Yogi ‘N Boo Boo

TU STORY OF THE WEEK:

Ex-NXIVM Student: “I think it’s a cult.” by James M. Odato (originally appeared in Sunday 9/5/2010 print edition)

NON-TU STORY OF THE WEEK:

The Hidden Shame of the Saratoga Race Track (NY Daily News)

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TU BLOG HIGHLIGHTS

Ladies and gentlemen, Daniel Nester has arrived.

Fox News, twisted overalls, and I cried (Farm Life)

Best Movie Quarterback: Where is the Real Paul Crewe? (Mark McGuire)

Ignore My Blog, Please (J. Eric Smith)

Bye Bye to You, T.U. (J. Eric Smith) Don’t worry, folks. I’ll get him back.

10 Ways to Tackle Fall Cleaning (Simpler Living)

Illium Cafe: A First Lunch & Review (Troy blog)

Former Social Studies Teacher Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography (Troy blog)

Did Craigslist Help You Buy Sex? (Albany blog)

Helping Out Hospice (Bikers)

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Blogorama will be right back after this important message. Because folks, you should always ask someone you love before you put anything in your mouth.

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…and now, back to Blogorama.

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ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET

Locally

2010’s Capital Region Entertainment Hall of Fame Inductees (Nippertown)

Driving Mr. Colbert (All Over Albany)

Fruit Salad, Yummy Yummy (Friday Puppy)

Tournament of Pizza Tournament Leaderboard (All Over Albany)

Movies & Television

Segue Fever (Keyboard Krumbs)

‘The Dark Tower’ to Make History By Launching Ambitious Television/Movie Trilogy Hybrid Strategy (Cinematical)

Fall TV’s Best New Shows… (TV Squad)

…and its Worst (TV Squad)

Captain America Set Photos (Cinematical) This looks exceptionally goofy.

Character actor Glenn Shadix (“Heaters,” “Beetlejuice”) Passes Away

Other

The Sports Fans I Hate Most (Jeff Pearlman) And I couldn’t agree more.

How to Open a Book (This Isn’t Happiness)

Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter (Gizmodo) #Biberload

Japanese Journalist Tricks al Qaeda Terrorist into Tweeting News of Being Alive (New Statesman)

First Woman to Be Executed in Virginia in 98 Years (Jezebel)

A Good Deal? (All Things Ellie)

If Historical Events Had Facebook Statuses (Cool Material)

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ART

Insightful, thoughtful, inspirational, and/or straight up pretty s*** from great artists, most of whom I just learned existed in the past week.

Rob Sato (illustrator)

Lillian Garcia-Roig (painter)

Cecily Brown (painter)

Chris Sedgewick (painter)

Leonid Afremov (painter)

Ted Vasin (illustrator)

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MMA

Todd Duffee’s Release from the UFC: A Matter of Having the Wrong Attitude? (MarshallMMA.com)

Todd Duffee: UFC Release Caps Off “Good Run of Bad Luck” (MMAJunkie) Oh, Eeyore…

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