HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 10/23/06

Family Phil and dozens of his closest friends found some unsettling items as they cleaned the mess left behind by others on Tubbs Hill here .

* Pecky Cox /As The Lake Churns tells us about a brave girl who not only survived a virus attacking her brain but also a nasty dog bite here .

*A close call about the time that John F. Kennedy was assassinated reined in the desire of Raymond Pert /Kellogg Bloggin’ to be a firebug here .

* Marianne Love /Slight Detour admits she was a pretty good joke teller in her day, including a time or two that she was taken to the wood shed for letting the f-bomb dribble out of her mouth here .

* Toad /Synaptic Disunion remembers the college life that helped form him into the person he is today, both in word and music, here .

* Bronx Boy /The Perambulator has fallen in love in London. You can read all about it here and here .

Put your hands together for Bearable Bob , who celebrated being smoke free for a year on Sunday. He sez the urge to smoke is still there, but not nearly as overbearing as it used to be here . Congrats.

Meanwhile, JBelle hands over the recipe for her delicious meatloaf here , Mari’s back from New England here , MikeK posts again here , JeanC holds her nose as she heads south to Lewiston for a day of shopping here , Trish posts random thoughts while she’s waiting for her anti-virus to scan The River Journal here , and Bill takes note of an Idahoan who allegedly went bad here .