What’s Up in the Neighborhood – A MILESTONE

Before I start our regular Saturday recap of the blog posts and photos and thoughts of the wonderful people on my blogroll … a personal note.

Today’s blog post is my 7,000th published blog post. That includes going all the way back to 2007 for my original blogspot.com portal, then 8 1/2 years at the Times Union’s blog farm … and, for the past nine years, as a solo practitioner.

Damn. I had 7,000 things to say over all that time?

Maybe it’s true – as a child, maybe I WAS vaccinated with a Victrola needle.

Well, if you’re feeling the urge to send cake or cards … make sure the cake is sugar free, and make sure the cards contain little gift certificates in them from places like Harbor Freight and Nikon and Chevrolet and Red Bull and CPKC and the Pittsburgh Steelers and all those other wonderful places. 😀

I should note that while today is my 7,000th blog post, there are a few people in the blogroll who are celebrating their 14th anniversary of blogging (I didn’t have my glasses on) and 17th anniversary of blogging (the Cawston Greenway). Congratulations to them.

And all of you – thanks for being with me on this 7,000th blog post.

And after today … I’ll surely begin blog post 7,001.

• BLOGS FOR TASTE
  • The Albany history blog “Hoxsie!”, “Colonial Ice Cream.”
  • Jerry Papandrea’s “DerryX” blog, “Godfather Part III is a Parody (ft. Sicilian Pizza).“
• BLOGS FOR ANNIVERSARIES
  • I didn’t have my glasses on, “fourteen years?“
  • The Cawston Greenway blog, “The Start of our 17th Year….”
• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • Remember the Drive-In from Kanauga Kool, “A Visit to Walt Disney World’s Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant.”
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “Italy – lost and found.”
• BLOGS FOR HISTORY
  • J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Genre Delve #9: Hip-Hop/Rap.”
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • The Resurrected Camera blog, “Sheeple 4.”
  • Tim Jeffers Photography, “A sunrise is God’s way of saying, Let’s start again!“
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, “When Things Get Tense, I Get Three Roses, I’m Not Sure Why.”
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • The B&S About Movies, “The Specter of Terror (1973).”
  • The Saturday Morning Archives, “Remember the Carnation Rabbits? (1960’s)“
• BLOGS FOR THE HEADPHONES
  • Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life!”, “Finding Joy in Tough Times: 6 Essential Tips.”
  • The Sad Clowns podcast, “Sad Clowns at the Movies.“
• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • The Emptywheel blog, “January 6 Was a Violent Insurrection; It Was Also a Fraud Against the GOP Faithful.”
  • Molly White’s “[citation needed],” “The year of technoligarchy.”
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “Renee Nicole Good Should be Alive.”
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “Civics lesson.”
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “With Maduro gone, Venezuela’s government follows the line of succession, just because their “patron” doesn’t like the opposition.”
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • Yannie B. in the Bel Esprit platform, “The Girl In the Room.”
  • The Pine Hills Review, “Goddess of Airlines” by Misha Lynn Moon.
• BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
  • RIP Baseball, “Jim Willis (1928-2026).”
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • Alan Ilagan’s blog, “In Sickness and in Mess.“
  • Emily Pratt Slatin’s blog, “The Year That Clarified Everything I Had Been Avoiding.”

Have a great weekend, everybody!