“You can steal cars, you can pick up prostitutes, you can get drunk and drive around, kill police officers, stuff you wouldn’t think about doing in real life.”
Hey, neat! That was the sound bite from a nice, clean-cut young man that caught my ear in our story on the release of the video game “Grand [...]
Archive for April, 2008
CULTURAL SATIRE?
Posted in Digital World, Living in the Past, tagged Grand Theft Auto, video games on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A PRICE ON THEIR HEADS
Posted in Politics, tagged Chris Dodd on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Connecticut Democrats held their annual Jefferson-Jackson-Bailey fundraising bash Monday night at the Connecticut Convention Center.
Former presidential candidate and Delaware Senator Joe Biden was the headliner at the event which also featured former presidential candidate and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd. Go figure. Maybe Dodd’s the headliner at the Delaware fundraiser. They’ve both been in the Senate [...]
SUNSHINE ON A RAINY DAY
Posted in TV Stuff, tagged viewer mail on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I got nothin’. Well, actually, there is one thing. I’ve played four rounds of golf with the same ball. That’s something. Not saying I’m playing well, but I’m certainly playing economically. For the record, it’s a Titleist (#2) Pro V1-X. I knew you’d want to know.
Still under the weather on this rainy day, and what, [...]
AETNA, AETNA, AETNA
Posted in Digital World, Noticed, tagged Aetna, WordPress on April 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
We’ve been blogging on WordPress for about a month now, after making the switch from Google Blogger. It took some getting used to, but I keep discovering some pretty neat features.
One of them is called “Referrer.” It shows you how people find your blog. The vast majority who read this one got here through nbc30.com. [...]
NIGHTMARE/FANTASY
Posted in Health, It's all about me on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been flirting all week with my professional nightmare. LARYNGITIS.
I don’t know where it comes from or why. I have no allergies that I know of. I don’t feel bad, and my throat doesn’t even hurt. But it sneaks up out of nowhere once, maybe twice, a year.
At times during the day I sound like [...]
No, this is not a treatise on Colonial days. It is the announced attendance at Tuesday night’s Hartford Wolf Pack playoff game. As it turned out, their final game of the season, since they were eliminated.
ONE-THOUSAND, SEVEN-HUNDRED-SEVENTY-ONE.
And there are people who still insist that Hartford should have an NHL franchise.
Howard Baldwin, the man who brought [...]
GOING GREEN OR GOING BROKE?
Posted in Diatribes, News, tagged cars, gas prices, Going green on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
WASHINGTON (AP) — New fuel efficiency standards will be increased by more than 4 percent each year from 2011 through 2015. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters says, by 2015, the nation’s fleet of new cars and trucks will have to average 31.6 miles per gallon.
An automobile manufacturers spokesman says the numbers are “very challenging” but they [...]
SEE YOU IN 5 YEARS
Posted in Health, tagged colonoscopy, men's health on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
That’s the nicest thing you can hear from the doctor who performs your colonoscopy, and that’s what I heard on Monday.
Actually, I didn’t hear it. Or maybe I did. I don’t know. I barely knew my name. The drugs were good. But that’s what the Dearly Beloved told me was written on the note.
Such a [...]
WHEATIES AND A NICE CHIANTI
Posted in Media, Noticed, tagged cannibals, Hartford Courant on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the “to do” list for today (or tomorrow, or the next day) is to clean up our gas grill for “the season.” Why mess up the kitchen when you can throw something on the grill, right?
My enthusiasm for the task was dampened a bit when I unfolded the morning paper. (Yes, I’m one of [...]
THE WILDENSTEIN REPORT
Posted in Health, People, tagged cosmetic surgery, helen hunt, Jocelyn Wildenstein, priscilla presley on April 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Jocelyn Wildenstein (right) is the New York socialite who has had so many cosmetic surgeries she is now referred to as “Cat Woman” and “The Bride of Wildenstein.” I think she’s a total freak, but hey, that’s just me. How can she possibly look in the mirror and think she looks good?
I bring this up because I [...]
