What’s Up in the Neighborhood, July 12 2025

Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. Hope you’ve got lots of fun things planned for this weekend, and I also hope the weather cooperates with your plans.

I’m making my final cuts and considerations for the New York State Fair’s and Altamont Fair’s photography competitions, and after going zilch-for-four in the Iowa State Fair, I’m really concerned that I could end up resuscitating various photo competition “curses” that plagued me in the past (i.e., the “Altamont Curse”, the “Syracurse”, all of those). But I have to get the best images I can, so I’ll work on that this weekend.

And at the same time … I’ll put together some fun blog post listings, so if you’re a fan of the writers on my personal blogroll, here’s some of their best posts this week.

• BLOGS FOR CEREAL MASCOTS
  • The Saturday Morning Archive, “Tony The Tiger Conducts an Orchestra (1961).“
• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • Remember the Drive-In, by Kanauga Kool, “A Visit to Elvis Presley’s Birthplace in Tupelo, MS.“
  • The Saratoga Woods and Waterways portal, “Quick Visit to Orra Phelps.“
• BLOGS FOR HISTORY
  • The Albany history blog “Hoxsie!”, “The Glen-Sanders Mansion, After 1963.“
  • Richard Lakin’s blog, “Guildhall No More.“
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • Alan Ilagan’s blog, “Tres Deseos.“
  • Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “This Week in Pictures (So Far).“
  • Tim Jeffers’ “Vintage Lens,” “Still Life.“
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog: “Streaming: Kiss, Marry, Kill.“
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “Godzilla (1998).“
  • The B&S About Movies, “Night of Terror (1972).“
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • Courtenay Schembri Gray, “The Octopus Who Dismembered Love.“
  • The Phoenix Desertsong blog, “I’m Not Built for This, But I’m Still Here.“
  • Kevin Pilkington in the Pine Hills Review, “The Local News.“
• BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
  • RIP Baseball, “Diego Segui (1937-2025).“
• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “Things that make MAGA go ‘duh.’“
  • Molly White’s “[Citation Needed],” “The stockchain.“
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, “Charity And Kindness Was The Point. Just Ask St. Augustine, Jesus, Maimonidies, The Bible.“
  • Emily Pratt Slatin’s blog, “The Version of Me I Forgot Existed.“
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • Elena Rossini’s blog, “What I’m up to: June-July 2025 edition.“
  • J. Eric Smiths’ blog, “The Future Never Waits.“
  • The Cawston Greenway blog, “Connecting Communities.“
  • The Trivial Music Silliness blog, “Pull Up a Seat.“
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “A Month to have four Tuesdays, or five?“

Have a great weekend, everybody!