What’s Up in the Neighborhood, November 1 2025

Good morning, my wonderful blog readers. A quick note before we go through the blogroll recap this week; make sure that before you go to bed tonight, you set your clocks back one hour. So if it’s 3:00, you set it for 2:00. And in America, we set 2025 back to what, 1931 or something? Yeesh.

All right, let’s get at it.

• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • The Saratoga Woods and Waterways blog, “Grandma Goes to Essex.”
  • Richard Lakin’s blog, “St Mary’s churchyard.”
  • The Cawston Greenway blog, “The Rain Finally Got Us.”
• BLOGS FOR THE HEADPHONES
  • Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life!”, “Navigating Grief and Trauma: Marcia Earhart’s Insights on Healing and Resilience.”
  • The Sad Clowns podcast, “So … you’ve just lost a loved one …“
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • G. Jack Urso’s “Aeolus 13 Umbra” blog, “World of Darkness — The World Beyond.”
  • The B&S About Movies platform, “Inflateable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967).”
  • The Saturday Morning Archives, “Porky Pig’s Feat (1943).”
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, “October
  • Flower Art, Halloween, November One, 2025 “Life Is Dear To Me, And I Will Defend It.” – Who Said That?.”
  • Ed Fritz Photography, “Vermont Steeple.“
  • The Resurrected Camera blog, “Occasionally, my parents were decent photographers.”
  • Tim Jeffers’ “Vintage Lens,” “Happy Halloween!“
• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “Riley Gaines just got the same lesson that other MAGA dorks have……...”
  • Molly White’s “[Citation Needed],” “The pardon was the payoff.”
  • The Emptywheel blog, “Jeanine Pirro Covers Up Donald Trump’s Doxing Conspiracy.”
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • Michelle Stoll in the Pine Hills Review, “Filthy goddess in search of vulgar god.”
  • Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “WordPress has gone creepy..”
  • Elena Rossini’s blog, “What I’m up to: October 2025 edition 🎃.”
  • Kiki Pickett in the Bel Esprit portal, “Your Weakness. My Strength.“
• BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
  • Emily Pratt Slatin’s blog, “Mom Always Had A Place In My Diary.”
  • RIP Baseball, “Bob Oldis (1928-2025).”
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “Saying goodbye to a generation.”
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “It’s Been Decades, and I Still Miss my Grandparents.”
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • Alan Ilagan’s blog, “Hocus Pocus Focus.“
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “A specific dream.”
  • J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Genre Delve #5: Prog.”
  • Remember the Drive-In from Kanauga Kool, “Happy Halloween & a New Milestone!“

Have a great weekend, everybody!!