Blogorama: Before the Love Edition

This Monday is Valentine’s Day, so don’t forget to tip your hooker!

This week – A live chat with Steve Barnes, an anniversary for Teri Conroy, wassup with Alan’s clergy collar and more. This…is Blogorama.

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

Steve Barnes chatting Live on Facebook Today at Noon

Ryan Gosling to Star in Movie Set in Schenectady (Schenectady / Will King)

The Re-Introduction of Me (FarmLife)

My Top Ten Reasons for Living Here (Daniel Nester)

Your Internet Diet (Michelle Kats)

Why I Wear a Clergy Collar (Rev. Alan Rudnick)

Tick-Tock (Amanda Talar)

Blogger Bio: Bethany Parks (Mike Huber)

More amazingness is after the jump.

IN OUR AREA CODE

• Five Things I Learned Watching the Super Bowl (Keyboard Krumbs)
• Phantogram’s Bump from MTV’s “Skins” (All Over Albany)
• Pitchfork Raves Over Century Plants (Nippertown)
• Hudson River Coffee House: Verdict (Keep Albany Boring)
• The Maladroit Collector (Indie Albany)

MEANWHILE, IN THE REST OF THE WORLD…

• Julie Klausner: 10 Creepy Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards (Julie Klausner)
• Pennsylvania Schoolteacher Calls Students “Lazy Whiners” Online (AP)
• Tim Fadek: Is Social Media Destroying Public Interaction? (BAGnewsNotes)
• Angie Dickinson slapping Lee Marvin = Music (YouTube)
• Noah Cicero: Americans are Entitled to Have Sissy Fits (We Who Are About to Die)
• Former Smashing Pumpkins Bassist D’Arcy Arrested Because “Horses Ran Amok” (Pitchfork)
• A Screenshot of Your G-Mail Inbox (The Inquistr)
• 8-year-old Racks Up $1,800 of In-Game Charges for “Smurfs’ Village” (Gizmodo)
• Woman Bites Into Razor in Walmart Brand Ice Cream (The Consumerist)

ART

• Kurt Wenner (paintings)
• Giovanni Antonio Canaletto (paintings)
• David Cutter (illustrations)

MMA

• Strikeforce “Fedor vs. Silva” Preview
• The Death of Japanese MMA (Snark Fights)
• Quinton “Rampage” Jackson Explains Why He Turned Down Light Heavyweight Title Fight (MMAFighting)
• Thiago Silva’s Drug Test Still Processing, Fueling Speculation of a Failure (MMAFighting)
• St-Pierre: “It would be foolish to look past Shields” (MMAjunkie)
• The Future (and Kittens) on Mike Brown’s Mind (CageWriter)
• Bas Rutten Buries Steven Seagal for Claiming Credit for Anderson Silva’s Kick (CageWriter)
• New York MMA Rally a Success (MMAjunkie)
• Fedor Emelianenko Retires “Glorious Sweater” (MMAFighting))

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