Blogorama: ‘Tis the Season

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Hey folks!

Before we begin, a reminder that Season’s Screenings is this coming Monday. $6 to hang out with great people and see “A Christmas Story” on the big screen at The Palace, followed by a meet-up afterwards at The Brown Derby. What’s not to like?

CLICK HERE to purchase/reserve your ticket(s).

Now, on to Blogorama.

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WE’RE YOUR SOURCE: This Week on the Times Union Blogs

Exercise Equipment Experts Don’t Recommend (HealthyLife)

Do Restaurants Overcook Your Burgers and Steaks? (Table Hopping)

I’m a Gift Giver (Amanda Talar)

Gift-Giving Rant of the Day (Simpler Living)

Caring Again About…the Knicks? (Mark McGuire)

Youth Group Confessionals (High School / Tobi Walsh)

Get Out of Your Way (Real [Fit] Life)

Marc Brown’s Jersey Retired by Saints (Chuck Miller)

Band Q & A: Enigmatic Heart (High School/Taylor Rao)

More amazingness is after the jump.

IN OUR AREA CODE: Wilco, Hellions, Babies and Old Men

• Official: Wilco’s Solid Sound Returning to Mass MoCA (Nippertown)
• Hellions of Troy Winter/Spring 2011 Schedule
• Why Did You Have a Baby? (Friday Puppy)
• Compromising on the Road to My Horizon (Indie Albany)
• The 82-year-old Freshman (Indie Albany)
• Know Your Country: US Junior Nat’l Team (Without a Peer) Tom previews their exhibition game this weekend with RPI.
• Some History on Finals (RPI History)
• Where You Went Wrong (Keep Albany Boring)
• And in the End… (The Anthology of American Folk Music) The conclusion of Alex Stern’s examination of a piece of American history.

MEANWHILE, IN THE REST OF THE WORLD…

• The James Urbaniak Christmas Song (Venture Bros. Blog)
• McBulls*** (Jeff Pearlman) McDonald’s promotes that all sales of Happy Meals go to The Ronald McDonald House…but do you know how much?
• Peyton is Better (Don’t Kid Yourself)
• File Not Found: The Record Industry’s Digital Storage Crisis (Rolling Stone)
• Dexter and His Sister Are Getting a Divorce (Dlisted)
• Photos of Niagara Falls, Sans Water (Daily Mail)
• Google’s Body Browser (Medgadget)
• Henry VIII’s Love Letter to Anne Boleyn (Letters of Note)
• Julian Assange’s Online Dating Profile Leaked (Slashdogt) And – no surprise – it makes him look like a total c**t.
• The Pee Wee Herman Show on Broadway (Scratchbomb)
• DC ‘Cartoon Flips’ (Kerry Callen’s Blog)

ART

• Sulamith Wulfing (illustrations)
• James Bama (illustrations)
• Michael Lundgren (photography)
• Banksy Film Subject Mr. Brainwash Boggles Art World (WebUrbanist)

MMA

• UFC to Hold May 2011 Event in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (MMAjunkie)
• GSP Great, but Not the Greatest (Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports) I respect Kevin a lot, and he puts forth an argument. But he’s wrong. 170 is a lot more competitive than the perpetually journeyman 185 division. GSP has consistently dominated higher quality competition.
• Nam Phan talks about his controversial decision loss (Youtube vid)
• Bellator Signs 3-Year TV Deal with MTV2 (Fight Opinion)
• Looking Back: Our 10 Favorite Fights from WEC (CageWriter)
• WEC’s Final Event Provides Rare Moment for Reflection (MMAfighting.com)
• UFC 124 winner Pierson Dumped by Toronto Police Department (CageWriter) So stupid.

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