Blogorama: Links & Highlights of the Week

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Congratulations to all the TU Staff who won New York APA Awards in the 50,000 – 150,000 Circulation category. Read here for more.

More importantly, go check out the new crop of bloggers over on The High School blog. Lots of varied and interesting voices over there that could use your encouragement.

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PODCAST OF THE WEEK:

MANville Episode 17 w/ Jo’Lissa Brown

COMMENT OF THE WEEK:

“In the end, all you’ve got is your family.” – Ash Williams in Why Marry?

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TU BLOG HIGHLIGHTS

Name Your Price (Brad Shear) Name your own price for a cat – minimum $1 – this Friday and Saturday. All cats are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, de-wormed, and tested for feline leukemia. On top of that you’ll get a free bag of food, coupons, one free month of pet insurance and more. If you’ve been considering getting a pet, please do yourself and these animals a favor and stop by the Mohawk & Hudson River Humane Society this weekend.

Me Talk Good to You (Funnies)

Sports Terms You Want Banished (Mark McGuire)

Larkfest Preview: Madison Ave. Line-Up (Albany blog)

Things I Don’t Believe, Part III (Schenectady blog)

Channel 103.1 & Jason Keller Off the Air (Funnies)

A Conversation with Dr. C.K. Wu: More on Warriors in Skirts (Boxing in the Capital Region)

Q Poll: Cuomo’s Lead Has Dropped to Six Points (Capital Confidential)

…but then…

Siena Poll: Cuomo’s Support is Double Paladino’s (Capital Confidential)

Troy Home to First Professional Latin-American Baseball Player (Troy blog)

Ten Oddball Vintage TV Game Shows (Chuck Miller)

Assembly Owner: We Had to Nip [Efforts by Management Targeting College-Aged Kids] in the Bud (Table Hopping)

There is Racist, Then There’s Jim Russell (Kevin Marshall)

Tuesday Pictures (Farm Life)

October Events (Michael Huber)

The Summer Songs Have Ended (CRUMBS blog)

WARRIOR DASH PARTICIPANTS: Warrior Weekend! (This is College?!) / Running Scene: Warrior Dash (Runners Blog) / Calling in Running to Work (Runners Blog)

5 Things to Avoid in Albany (Albany blog)

WAMC Brings Ward Stone Back in Reduced Format (Capitol Confidential) For Ward, the trip’s barely worth the gas you pay for.

Just Married (Simpler Living) Congratulations!

Perception (Philip Morris)

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ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET

Locally

Jed Davis’s new album, “Cutting Room Floor,” is out and you can stream it for free at the link provided. But you should also buy it.

Good Day for the “Bums” (Metroland)

“The Complete Metropolis” at Proctor’s (All Over Albany)

Weekend Roundup (Nippertown)

Age Segregation in Church (On the Bema)

Hell Hath No Fury (Keyboard Krumbs)

What’s This All About? (Indie Albany Dot Com)

Movies & Television

Is “Robot” the Greatest Bollywood Movie EVER?! (MindPollution.org)

Alternate “Iron Man 2″ Opening (MindPollution.org)

How Xena & Buffy Vanquished Hercules & Angel (The Torch Online)

Should SPIDER-MAN Really Be on Broadway? (The Torch Online)

20 Years of Experience Dictates the Following… (Letters of Note)

Other

The Shockmaster! (detention with derryX)

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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.

Aaron Coberly (painter)

Peter Diamond (illustrator)

Tatiana Kazakova (illustrator)

“ten o’clock and I know I gotta hit the road” (Amy Stegner)

Nightmare & Dream Designs: 12 Cities of Sci-Fi & Fantasy (WebUrbanist)

Illustrator Laurie Lipton’s “Life After Death”

Captured: America in Color, 1939-1943 (Denver Post)

10 Stunning Street Artists (Best Bookmarks)

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MMA

Matt Serra Looking Forward to a Great Fight, Then Ravioli (CageWriter)

Vitor Belfort vs. Anderson Silva Soon; Winner of Okami/Marquardt Next (MMAFighting.com)

UFC: Cro Cop Medically Cleared for Saturday’s UFC 119 Main Event (MMAjunkie)

Sonnen Fails Drug Test, Plans to Appeal (MMAjunkie)

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