Weekly Rollup & Open Thread, 12/11/09

By Justice Feelgood Marshall, Last updated Fri Dec 11 2009 7:05am

Totally sweet dance moves from the Windy City referee & NSO crew at Windy City's end-of-year awards ceremony.

Phil Arnold writes up the championship bout of Dallas' Queen of the Hive tournament last weekend, where all-star mashup team Death Stars defeated a team of Dallas Derby Devils 110-76.

The San Diego Derby Dolls post another in an occasional series of Youtube training videos -- tips on skating sideways from Bonnie D. Stroir.

More Youtube: watchmojo.com has a 5-part series exploring roller derby through interviews with Montreal. Thematically it's not significantly different from most hey-what's-this-crazy-roller-derby-phenomenon pieces, but it's well put together, it lets the participants do all of the talking, and part 4 has Secret Practice Footage of Montreal's halftime show at Nationals!

WFTDA debuts two new monthly features on its website: Featured Skater and Featured League. For December it's Charm City's Joy Collision and WFTDA Championships hosts Philly Rollergirls.

Possible move to a new arena in the cards for the Denver Roller Dolls.

Apparently Whip It is at the top of the list of Lesbian Movies of 2009. (Really?)

This one's from last week, but here's a really heartfelt, touching & well-written post from Cincinnati's Miss Print about teammate Sista Sacralicious dealing with the BRCA2 gene. (What's the BRCA2 gene? It is a thing that sucks. Read the post.)

And, your Moment of Zen: Creepiest fan ever? (Hat tip to Queen of the Rink for finding this gem.)

Got a funny, interesting, intriguing or just weird link for next Friday's Open Thread? Let us know.