Blogorama! Links & Highlights of the Week

That’s it, lions! You are OFF the Christmas card list!

Firstly, in case you missed it, check out my experiment where I temporarily gave up Facebook and Twitter. Some interesting revelations.

Secondly, congratulations Amanda!

Thirdly, welcome the TU’s new Daddy blogger, Jason Purvis!

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SPENCER TRACY MESSAGE TO ALBANY OF THE WEEK:

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TU BLOG HIGHLIGHTS

Media Drama, Starring Ward Stone (Information Without the Bun)

Ending First is How I Read Books, How About You? (Lori Cullen)

Ten Cover Versions of Beatles’ Songs (Chuck Miller)

Taking Stock of Donald Led Duke’s Legacy (Local Politics)

State Worker Publishes Book About Pro Player Pensions (The State Worker)

Dallas Cowboy’s Dez Bryant Stuck with $55,000 Bill at Steakhouse (Table Hopping)

Study: Most Christians Lack Basic Religious Knowledge (Rev. Alan Rudnick)

That Wonder Woman Broad Ain’t Got Nothin’ on Roller Derby Chicks (Roller Derby blog)

Fred Dicker’s Previous Bouts: The Scorecard (Capitol Confidential)

Men, Would You Crash a Woman’s Race? (Runners Blog)

Holly Woodlawn’s Superstar Stint in Albany (Daniel Nester)

Will King’s Cat is Missing (Schenectady) Help him find him!

Profile of a Ring Doctor (Boxing in the Capital Region)

Dude, the Dog Did It (Animal Rights blog) More apt title: “Kitty Porn”

Recording Magazine Spotlights Sensemaya (CRUMBS blog)

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More greatness from all over is after the jump.

ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET

Locally

FIGHT!!! Paladino vs. Dicker (Capitol Tonight) Kaitlyn Ross’s original captured video of the altercation that made me laugh.

Up the Equinox: Scientifically Sound Boat Shoe Scheduling (Indie Albany Dot Com)

Air Sex World Championships in Albany Next Week (Nippertown)

Movies & Television

Darkly Returning Dexter (One Seven One)

Aziz Ansari, Practical Joker (The Vulture) The important thing? This means “Parks & Recreation” is going to be back in January! And not a moment too soon.

Yet Another “Snow White” Adaptation in the Works as ‘Dark Survival Tale’ (Cinematical) God this is so stupid. I’m starting to really hate genre films.

“Sex and the City” is Dead, and Chris Noth is Blaming the Critics (Cinematical) Because that movie wasn’t a lazy, unbelievable, mailed in vacation episode of a bad 80s sitcom that somehow ran in excess of two hours. That was just the press making all that stuff up!

David Simon Receives MacArthur “Genius” Grant (New York Times)

Tarantino’s Editor, Sally Meinke, Passes Away (Julie Klausner)

“The Walking Dead” Title Sequence (Fubiz)

Max Weinberg Splits with Conan O’Brien (Nippertown)

Other

Linda  McMahon’s Body Count (The Nation)

Ricky Hatton Case Highlights Retirees’ Plight (Kevin Iole, Yahoo Sports)

Weiner’s Circle: “The Most Depressing Hot Dog Stand in America” (Chicagoist)

Michigan Assistant Attorney General Starts Blog to…Harass a Gay College Student? (Jeff Pearlman) Strange but true story, and the guy still has his job.

Study: Audio Recordings of US History Fading Fast (Associated Press)

Illustrations from 1956’s The Complete Book of Space Travel (Golden Age Comics)

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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.

Jason Limon’s “Blood and Nectar” (Painting)

Aurel Schmidt (illustrations) warning: potentially NSFW

Jackson Armstrong (illustrations)

Tilt-Shift Van Gogh

Mitch Epstein’s “Common Practice” (Photography)

Bill Owens’ “Leisure – A Particular Kind of Strangeness (Photography)

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MY MMA BLOG WRITINGS – “MIXED MARSHALL ARTS”

Fighting Hard vs. Fighting Smart: Finding the Balance and Why Aggression Matters in MMA

Tiequan Zhang Could be MMA’s First Breakout Chinese Star, But Questions Remain

Zuffa’s First Chinese Fighter Wins in Quick Fashion

MMA

UFC’s Matt Mitrione Fires Agent on Live Television (CageWriter)

Jon Fitch: Move to Middleweight is Inevitable (MMA Junkie)

The Unsolicited Advisor: Save Your Disdain for the Judges, Not the Fighters (Ben Fowlkes)

Stefan Struve Signs New UFC Deal (MMAFighting.com)

It’s official: Frankie Edgar to defend UFC Lightweight Title against Gray Maynard at UFC 125 (MMAFighting.com)

Shinya Aoki to Fight Former Pro Boxer at DEEP 50 (MMAFighting.com) Why?

Detached Retina Could Force Former Bellator Champ Joe Soto Into Retirement (MMA Junkie)

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