After trying to grok what you gave me, I came up with this:

Template code:

[% FILTER html_para %]
      [% reply.blog_text %]
      [% END %]
      <small>
      tags: 
      [% FOREACH tag IN reply.blog_tags.split(',') %]
      <a href="[% Catalyst.uri_for('/blog/do_search')_'?q='_ tag %]"> 
+[% tag %]</a> ,
      [% END %]
       <p><a href="[% Catalyst.uri_for('/blog/reply/')_ reply.blog_id 
+%]">comment</a></p>
      </li>
      
      
      [% IF recurse %]
      
        <ul>
        [% FOREACH child_reply IN blog.replies -%]
            <li>
            
                <p>[% child_reply.blog_title %]</p>
                <p>[% child_reply.blog_text %]</p>
            
            </li>
        [% END %]
        </ul>
    [% END %]
     </ul>
    
      </small>
     
      </td>
      </tr>
      [% END %]
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Perl code:

YourSpaceDB::Blog.pm stuff:
## Thanks to YourMother of Perlmonks
__PACKAGE__->belongs_to('blog_parent' => __PACKAGE__);
__PACKAGE__->has_many('replies' => __PACKAGE__, 'blog_parent',
                      undef,
                      { order_by => 'blog_date' } );

sub parents {
    my ( $self, @parents ) = @_;
    my $parent = $self->parent;
    return @parents unless $parent;
    push @parents, $parent;
    die "Endless lineage loop suspected!" if @parents > 100;
    $parent->parents(@parents);
}
####

reply page: 
sub reply : Local {
   my ($self, $c, $blog_id) = @_;
    
    # Set the TT template to use
    $c->stash->{blog}        = $c->model('YourSpaceDB::Blog')->find($b
+log_id);
    $c->stash->{replies}     = [
        $c->model('YourSpaceDB::Blog')->search( 
        { 
         blog_is_reply    => 1, 
         blog_parent => $blog_id,
         blog_is_draft    => 0,
         }
        )
    ];
    $c->stash->{recurse} = 1;
    $c->stash->{template} = 'blog/reply.tt2';
}
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What I'm running into is it will show something that LOOKS like a reply under the first reply, so as to say the reply has a reply, but it'll have the same title/content/etc. The reply shows up when you click on the node that has the reply, but not before that.

It looks something like this:

original node
-reply to original node
--reply to reply, but with same title as reply to original node
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Thoughts?