Blogorama: Chaos Week Edition

Starting on a personal note: boy, this week has been chaos for me. But a good kind of chaos!

See, not all chaos is bad. After all, put too much emphasis on order and you’ll end up with fascism. And nobody wants that, except for maybe Michael Huber.

Yesterday, we had to change the locale of “Mockingbird Marathon: To Kill a Saturday” to The Book House ofStuyvesant Plaza due to circumstances beyond our control. I’ll leave it at that and say planning for this event can now be delineated between Pre-Crisis and Post-Crisis (Roger Green is maybe the only person reading this who will find that funny).

The bad news is that we had to move it away from the awesome Center Square/Washington Park/Townsend Park area. The good news is that the people at The Book House are great, enthusiastic, and have been more than accomodating. Plus, it’s in a plaza with a parking lot that will give people the opportunity to actually park their cars! For those without cars, it’s right on the bus line!

See? Everybody wins! This event will be great! Visit the blog NOW!

Thank you, chaos. You help prevent order from stifling us and inhibiting our improvement.

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THIS WEEK: Cohabitation, Storytown, Charlie Chaplin’s mysterious time traveler, horror comic books, and Paulo Thiago’s balloon sweep. This…is Blogorama.

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TU BLOG HIGHLIGHTS

BLOG OF THE WEEK: A History of Here, which has criminally escaped my attention until now.

Live It Up (Amanda Talar) on cohabitation

Me and Joe Donahue and Scott Rosenberg to Form Folk Trio Joe, Scott, and Dan (Daniel Nester)

Learning to Give a Painless, Anxiety-Free Pelvic Exam (M.D. to Be) This one’s for the laaaadieeees

Trauma and Creativity (David Kacyznski) webinar being offered at 11am today

Bandit’s Turn in Costume (Dog Owned Life)

Winners of World Series Game 1 Tie Back Directly to the Troy Haymakers (Troy blog) Troy WHAT

Miley Takes Another Hit (High School blog)

Haunted Ten Broeck Mansion (Albany blog)

Storytown – er, The Great Escape – in Kodachrome (Chuck Miller)

A Rose By Any Other Name…is Restricted (East Greenbush)

Six and Eleven (Ed Dague) on his new book!

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More great stuff, after the jump…IF YOU DARE! MWA-HA-HA-HA.

(Halloween’s on Sunday so I felt obligated to do that goofy s***)

ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET

Locally

Two Top Pizzas: So Much to Love (FUSSYlittleBlog)

Elkanah Watson and the Paving of State Street (All Over Albany)

The World at Large

10 Worst Halloween Costumes, Ever (We Who Are About to Die)

There Will Be Blood, Super Nintendo Style (Badass Digest)

Mishka the Huskey says “Hello, Momma!” (klausnerama)

The Fantasy/Sci-Fi TV List (The Torch Online)

Physicists: Time Will End in Five Billion Years (National Geographic)

Time Traveller Captured in Charlie Chaplin Film? (YouTube) My take: well, it’d be hard for a time traveller to use a cell phone with no towers or satellites or…well, anything.

15 Shadiest Photo Manipulations in US Political History (WebUrbanist)

Sterling’s Gold for Reals (We Who Are About to Die) YES!

Harry Rag (Keyboard Krumbs)

Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Popeye (Drawn! The Illustration & Cartooning Blog)

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ART

This week: a focus on horror.

Great comic book covers from Gene Colan

Haunting Art from the Marvel Bullpen

Monster Brains – A blog containing great horror comic artwork

Classic Horror Photo Plays

The Haunt of Fear Covers

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MMA

WWE’s Undertaker Confronts Brock Lesnar After UFC 121 (MMA Fighting)

Dana White: Brock Lesnar Absolutely NOT Returning to Wrestling (CageWriter)

Paulo Thiago’s Balloon Sweep at UFC 121 (MMA Fighting)

UFC and WEC Set to Merge in 2011 (MMAjunkie)

WEC Roster Added to the UFC: 10 Fighters to Watch (CageWriter)

Henderson/Pettis Winner to become No. 1 Contender for UFC Lightweight Title (MMA Fighting)

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