What’s Up in the Neighborhood, October 11 2025

I hope you have a great Indigenous Peoples Weekend, with celebrations and plans to honor and accept those of the First Nations and other recognized tribes and collectives. Oh, and it’s also Italian-American weekend, so let us all celebrate the rich history of the Italian thread of our multinational culture. Oh, and for my Canadian readers, have a blessed Thanksgiving weekend, enjoy the pumpkins and turkey and poutine and donairs and Timbits and the Ottawa-Montreal Thanksgiving Day CFL game (do Steelers fans like me support the Redblacks or les Alouettes?)

At the same time, let us also celebrate with a visit to our Saturday morning blogroll recap, shall we?

• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • Barbara Shields in the Bel Esprit portal, “Le Temps Perdu.“
  • The Cawston Greenway blog, “A Bit of Good (bench) News.”
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary, Heartthrobs and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love Book Review.”
  • Meggie Royer in the Pine Hills Review, “Love Poem to Saving Your Own Life.”
  • Emily Pratt Slatin’s blog, “What Being Different has Taught Me About Integrity.“
• BLOGS FOR TASTE
  • Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “Sausage soliloquy.”
• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • Richard Lakin’s blog, “Broadstairs.”
• BLOGS FOR HISTORY
  • Trivia Musical Silliness, “Nostalgic Dip – 1976, Part Eighteen.”
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, “Are The Puritans Smiling In Their Tombs? Joyless Nation.”
  • Tim Jeffers’ “Vintage Lens,” “Maybe We Need More Rocking On The Front Porch!“
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • The B&S About Movies blog, “Mohawk (2017).”
  • The Saturday Morning Archive, “Shari Lewis sings on Musical Chairs (1975).”
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “Movie review? HamilTEN.”
• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • The Emptywheel blog, “$400,000: The “Free” Medical Care Kristi Noem’s Goons Made Taxpayers Pay.”
  • Molly White’s “[Citation Needed],” “Issue 94 – Backdoor deals.”
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “Stop appeasing the oldest toddler in America: Letitia James indicted for “mortgage fraud”, despite evidence to the contrary.”
• BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
  • The Phoenix Desertsong blog, “On Indefinite Hiatus.“
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Genre Delve #3: Africa.”
  • The RIP Baseball site, “Weird Stats: Class A Edition.“
  • Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life!”, “Discover the ‘Bonkers’ Approach to Cancer Healing.”
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “Crushing.”
  • Alan Ilagan’s blog, “Dead Wood Resurrected.“

Have a great three-day weekend, everybody!