HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 9/4/07

JeanC, HBO’s Witch With A Gun, offers a YouTube video reminder, plus commentary, of the big storm that blew in Friday.

* Road King Ramblings drove 2400 to participate in his first and mebbe last Stugis motorcycle rally and now has penned his long-awaited report of the event (w/PG-13 photos) here .

* OrangeTV is going through a change of sorts — breaking out his SR published works onto a new site called Get Out North Idaho here and continuing his personal Making Flippy Floppy blog with some new MySpace videos including a new one dubbed, “Hagadonia,” here .

* Slight Detour admits that Labor Day afternoon before she retired from teaching was one of the worst days of the year for her b/c she never thought she was ready for the next 36 weeks here .

* Bayview Herb and the rest of Bayview are wondering if it’s time to incorporate the viewtiful little community on the southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille here and here .

* Sparky Notes has been doing a jig after several recent job offers and several months of temp jobs and soft offers, as she prepares for the next phase of her life here .

*From A Simple Mind never contacted U.S. Sen. Larry Craig to help her with a problem. She doesn’t know much about him. But she’s shocked how quickly his party threw him under the bus here .

Blog Numbers (for Aug. 26-Sept. 1): record page-views of 67,348, record unique views of 38,493, August total of 198,328 (compared to 133,392PVs in August 2006); year-to-date: 1,425,914PVs (compared to 755,000 through August last year).

Meanwhile, Silver Valley Girl’s 12-year-old continues a family tradition here , As The Lake Churns helps celebrate Priest Lake’s largest gin-fizz party here , Mrs. Mac Energetic has a new mantra to say while she tries to get a grip here , Tumblewords presents “Grandparents” here , This Is Growing Up picks a peck of peppers here , Rants, Raves & Random Thoughts enjoyed a record blog month in August here , Plaid Toaster is enjoying the freedom that school brings here , Granati gives thumbs up to St. Maries fireworks display here , CastMD contends Sen. Craig could be a spokesman for a medical malady here , BrodH20 sez toilet water suits her cat fine here , Arch Druid breaks down news and comments here , Alotta Brunk Around Here keeps time while waiting for medical results here , and A Butterfly Moment gets ready for school here .