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Hey, everybody has a bad week once in awhile.
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AWESOME STUFF WEEKEND!
Tonight (Friday): Troy Night Out. Come enjoy Troy tonight and every last Friday of the month! For info, visit TroyNightOut.org.
Tomorrow (Saturday): Exit Dome 4. Headlined by Phantogram and featuring The Charlie Watts Riots, Bryan Thomas, Que Caro, Slender Shoulders, and Nancy Walker. For tickets & more, visit WEXT’s website. Gonna be a blast!
This week – Seth Myers coming to the Capital Region, John McLoughlin’s departure, and nobody puts Amanda Talar in a corner. This…is Blogorama.
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WE’RE YOUR SOURCE: This Week on the Times Union Blogs
Seth Myers to co-host Disability Services Telethon (Arts Talk)
Poll: NYS Flips for Marriage Equality (Libby Post)
TeenV with Greg Aidala (High School Blog)
John McLoughlin Resigns from WTEN (The Buzz)
How Does Barack Obama’s Social Media Presence Compare to Yours? (Albany / Vincent Barr)
I’m Not a Baby (Amanda Talar)
Elaine Stritch and The Big Reveal (Davenport Chronicles)
Jay Martinez: A Light Outside the Limelight (Boxing in the Capital Region)
Video: Pitbulls Adopts, Loves Kitty (Dog-Owned Life)
Real [Fit] Life Challenge: The Participants (Real [Fit] Life)
Questioning an Injured Athlete’s Heart Says More About Us (Mark McGuire)
More amazingness is after the jump.
IN OUR AREA CODE
- Victory Mill (Sebastien Barre)
- Oscar by the Numbers (Indie Albany)
- Customer Service Alive and Well in Portland (Keyboard Krumbs)
- How to Win an Argument (Friday Puppy)
- Frigid (Girlfriend in Progress)
- Things We Thought We’d Never See (Nippertown)
MEANWHILE, IN THE REST OF THE WORLD…
- The Blind Non-Date (letters to you)
- Early Appearance of Grimace (klausnerama) Spoiler: he was FRIGHTENING.
- Flava Flav vs. KFC (The Atlantic)
- Erin Andrews & Journalistic Standards: A Bad Match (Jeff Pearlman)
- 10 Memorable Super Brawls (Superheroes, Etc.)
- Star Trek Produce Regrets Lack of Gay Characters (PopWatch)
- Jeff Magnum to headline New Jersey’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” Will Play Neutral Milk Hotel Material (Prefix)
- Cunningham Offers Alternatives to Violence (Kevin Iole/Yahoo! Sports)
ART
- David LaChappelle: Neo-Pop & Photoshop (American Suburb X)
- Alexadre Farto, aka Vhils (murals)
- Jon Fox (paintings)
MMA
- Cyborg Santos calls opponent Nick Diaz “Gallant” (CageWriter)
- Kevin Iole’s Interviewing Adventures with Brock Lesnar (Fight Opinion)
- Strikeforce Looking to Sign Satoshi Ishii (MMA Fighting) …why?
- Mike Guymon retires (MMAjunkie)
- Best Staredown Techniques in MMA (CageWriter)
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Showtime/CBS picking up the Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley PPV. This could be the beginning of something really good (the CBS involvement, that is).
Showtime/CBS get Pacquiao-Mosley
Now we just have to convince people that they want to see this fight. They’re basically going to have to ignore the fact that…well, Shane Mosley is fighting Manny freaking Pacquaio.
Trying to look at this as positively as I can, Shane Mosley has enough ‘name’ recognition among general fans and Manny Pacquiao has started to transend the sport, even just slightly.
I’m just hoping against hope that Mosley can muster up that ‘one last fight’ that HOF caliber fighters do from time to time. Really the fight just needs to be competitive and have some flash.
The layman will need that to feel invested enough to watch the next time. If the fight is a dud (i.e. Manny beats the crap out of Shane) then it’s all moot and the broadcast TV experiment will be shelved once again.
Roller Derby bout tomorrow evening at the Armory too!
http://www.albanyallstars.com
Along with handing Troy over to the students, let’s do this!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1082159892/a-new-album-by-alta-mira
And that!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/railbird/railbird-us-tour
And the other thing, even!
http://www.refresheverything.com/gethomesmartcard
Thanks for your consideration.
@Will King: I admire your love of boxing, as that was the most positive spin I’ve read on a -$750 underdog probably ever. Lets hope Sugar Shane pulls through.
P.S. Elvis was pretty buff back in the day!!!
Long damn week indeed. Possibly. The Longest. Ever.
u2 – Sometimes you have to think glass half full, even if it’s really half empty (or more!).
Thanks for promoting our TeenV episode!
My pleasure!