edited by: Judy Aron,
Connecticut Editor
An open offer to John Rowland. Do a full-hour radio interview with me. Let's have a long and very real conversation. If you really talked, you would get more than 15 people at your events. From the linked article:
Only 15 people showed up for Rowland's speech. To attend, people [...]
Sorry. Can't be embedded. You must go here. I love the president reindeer names.
h/t Roger the Duck
' [...]At the start of the year, Governing published a story using Connecticut as test case to look at the withering of a State Capitol press corps.
Now, Governing has its own problems, in the form of a rather odd new owner.
[...]Trouble in teabagland.
[...]Please, please Mr. Foxwoods, can the lettuce ladies come here?
It really would be a win-win, except for when people lost money, which I believe does happen in casinos.
via/ Capitol Report.
[...]So much for the dreamy Kevin O'Connor.
Caligiuri for Governor is a smart play. Sam is a stronger candidate than any of the others being mentioned right now. He's lost in that senatorial field, but he could do his party some good by running a strong race for governor.
' [...]I can envision a 28 Days Later thing where the puppets, hungry for flesh, attack the people of Minnesota.
[...]Today was Moustache Day, and Chion Wolf was snapping away. I shaved down my lower beard and then darkened the upper part with mascarca. Gerry showed us a picture of him, circa 1975. Chion shopped in a moustache on her picture of him from today. And now, you have things [...]
At the age of 18, my son rashly applied for a Bally's membership. He went to the gym three times, decided the whole thing was a bad idea and stopped. He probably failed to make the necessary notifications. Meanwhile, he had authorized Bally's to deduct its monthly fee from his [...]
At the age of 18, my son rashly applied for a Bally's membership. He went to the gym three times, decided the whole thing was a bad idea and stopped. He probably failed to make the necessary notifications. Meanwhile, he had authorized Bally's to deduct its monthly fee from his [...]
At our show planning meetings, we are obsessed with Auto-Tune. Every week we talk about doing a segment that, when you get right down to it, would be basically this, possibly with Ray Hardman in place of Weird Al.
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They were ominpresent in American households of the Fifites and Sixties. I would not be surprised if, at some point during the run of "Mad Men," the Draper kids sat down to knock the tops off some soft-boiled eggs. But they seem to have mostly disappeared.
There are, of couirse, [...]
One thing that gets lost if the shuffle of political speculation here in Connecticut is the muddy state of the Clean Elections law, which currently sits under the cloud of a very unfavorable federal judgment. The legislature is supposed to fix it, but the legislature seems to have trouble [...]
I'm benched from political predictifying.
But I note that, all over the 'sphere, the Blumenthal-might-run meme is suddenly bubbling, thanks to his non-disavowals
[...]So Chion, we discovered, does not eat fruit. So we had an on-air internvention yesterday by Clean Food guru Terry Walters. This morning I set out a fruit trial sampler.
Then Chion was persuaded to try her first blueberry. It didn't go well.
There have been odd residual effects to our show's encounter with Jonathan Safran Foer and his new book. One cannot read the book and come away unscathed. Patrick (our producer) is struggling in a fidgety way about whether he should eat meat. He's starting with giving up chickens and [...]
Rell isn't is isn't isisn't isn't is isn't isn't running.
I guess I could take the other post down and pretend I never wrote it.
[...]Jonathan Safran Foer is on our show today in conversation with eastern Connecticut small-farm livestock farmer Erica Andrews. Then Mark Oppenheimer of the New Haven Review and I talk some more about eating meat. And somewhere in there we have an essay, from Theresa Cramer of The Cut, about being [...]
I don't know much anything about Taylor Swift, but I was sleepily watching SNL last night, and it seemed to me she had nicely goofy Carole Lombard type comic chops. That was the good news. When she sang, it turned out she had almost no upper register, which meant her' [...]
I think it makes sense to assume that Gov. M. Jodi Rell is going to run again. Brian Lockhart unearthed the most recent compelling piece of evidence, but Rell generally behaves like a political animal these days. The delicious paradox is the way her Capitol office's almost obsessive political [...]
I just watched Jon Stewart's nothing-short-of-brilliant Glenn Beck send-up.
I assume it will be everywhere tomorrow.
UPDATE: Here it is.
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This show really rattled me, and I wound up not knowing what to think. But I was worried for this obviously very smart young man. (Photo by Chion Wolf)
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Judy Dworin will be on the show today for a discussion of the way she fuses dance with the experiences of women prisoners and their families.
We visited rehesarsals this week, and Chion shot this awesome slide show.
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Somehow, I missed this one. I like the way the Gregory Bros. is are actually kind of musically satisfying as well as funny.
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The Connecticut blogosphere ages. The newly thoughtful, reflective Ct Bob seems, metaphorically, to have gray at his temples. By 2010 he'll be the Daniel Schorr of the nutmeg 'sphere. And Genghis gathered himself for one last, impressive Mongol charge across the, um, steppes of Enfield. There are new [...]
So the people who deliver my NYT are annoying and random and tracheotomous. (A new word I am trying to popularize.) On Oct. 15, they delivered the Oct. 13 newspaper. On the weekend of Oct. 25, they delivered Barron's instead of the Saturday paper and all the cool Sunday pre-prints [...]
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