HBO’s Blogosphere — 10.30.09

“The first snow in some parts of North Idaho bespeckled docks, boats and covered fallen leaves before turning to a rainy sleet,” writes Ralph Bartholdt/Skookum Photography. “The snow kept coming at higher elevations, while lower ground looked up to rain and a sky like old bedding that the sun was just itching to bust through.” (Above, Ralph’s shot of a Rathdrum field in October.)

• Ancient tradition of Hallowe’en /Arch Druid
• I’ve got the old anti-insurance blooze /Atmospheric Ruminations
• Is Walt Minnick worth supporting /Blue Moose Democrat
• Politics: Theater of the Absurd /Dogwalk Musings
• Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Living Magazine 2009 readers poll /Get Out! North Idaho
• Cycle of life /Nuts & Nonsense
• First snow in this part of Idaho /Skookum Photography

• 10 ways Juliana was different from boys when they were her age /A Butterfly Moment
• Zombies in the mist /A Family Runs Through It
• Jack 2: Before and after /Bent’s Beer Garden
• A Word A Day: Draconian /Community Comment
• 3BT: Pizza observations, blood, Pat fixes dinner /Kellogg Bloggin’
• House guests /Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• Celebrates good times come on!/ Midnight Marauder
• In a hitchcock film?/ Silver Valley Stories
• Dark shadows /Slight Detour
• Nightmare, vanity, incubate /Tumblewords

HBO Numbers (for Thursday, Oct. 29): 11,702/6113