What’s Up in the Neighborhood, January 24 2026

Depending on where you’re reading today’s blog, I hope you have taken plenty of precautions for this upcoming snowstorm that’s about to blanket most of America. Make sure you have all your provisions, that your car has plenty of fuel, that you’ve got enough rock salt and/or icemelt for your walkway, and that your fur babies are brought inside to stay warm and cozy.j

Oh yeah, and bundle up with a few blog posts of mine. Starting with today’s recap of the blogs from the great people on this blog’s personal blogroll.

• BLOGS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A DREAM
  • I didn’t have my glasses on, “our hope..”
  • The WritergurlNY blog, “MLK Day is Being Hijacked in NYC.”
  • The Saturday Morning Archives, “Our Friend, Martin (1999).”
• BLOGS FOR TASTE
  • Alan Ilagan’s blog, “As the Rolls Rise.“
• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • The Cawston Greenway blog, “We Survived Blue Monday.”
• BLOGS FOR HISTORY
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• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • Tim Jeffers Photography, “Burning Through The Fog..”
  • The Resurrected Camera blog, “What happened? Pt. VI.”
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • The B&S About Movies, “The Sensuous Assassin (1970).”
• BLOGS FOR HEADPHONES
  • Audley Stephenson’s “Best Audacious Life!”, “Transforming Adversity into Opportunity: Garr Russell’s Journey.”
  • The Sad Clowns podcast, “Grief Exercises for Adults.“
• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • The Emptywheel blog, “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Told You So, Social Security Edition.”
  • Molly White’s “[Citation Needed],” “They’ve bought themselves a Congress.”
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ With Roger,” “Fighting against Trumpism.”
  • Dr. Paris Butterfield-Addison, “Why we don’t use AI.“
  • Emily Pratt Slatin’s blog, “What Remains When You Stop Pretending You Can Go Back.”
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “President Packrat is showing his true colors to the world.”
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, ““Lice,” A Great New Monday Morning Poem By Ian McRae, In Video And Text.”
  • The Pine Hills Journal, “Because can begin a sentence” by John Wise.
• BLOGS IN MEMORIAM
  • RIP Baseball, “Dave Giusti (1939-2026).”
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “And so….”
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Back In The Box.”
  • G. Jack Urso’s “Aeolus 13 Umbra” blog, “Space Shuttle Earth Views: Six-Hour VHS Footage.”
  • Trivial Music Silliness, “Pull Up a Seat: 2026, Week 4.”

Have a great weekend, everybody! STAY WARM!!