Everything East Lyme I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” East Lyme CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]
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Book Review: Connecticut 169 Club
In Da Club Connecticut 169 Club Your Passport & Guide to Exploring Connecticut, Martin Podskoch Please understand that everything below is a singular review, written by me. And by me, I mean the weirdo who has been compiling and writing about the most comprehensive “passport and guide to exploring Connecticut” for … [Read more...]
Book Review: 25 Ski Tours in Connecticut
Ski-zers 25 Ski Tours in Connecticut: A Trail Guide for the Cross-Country Skier by Stan Wass (1978) 1978 was a heady time. A fitness craze was beginning to sweep the nation. Jazzercize, Aerobics, jogging, coked up all night disco dancing… so it seemed like a good time for “two certified ski touring instructors … [Read more...]
SCELBI Computer Virtual Museum
SCELBI Date Milford August 1, 2020 The COVID-19 Pandemic is a strange time. I'm writing this in early August, now five months into this nightmare... thinking about the year that should have been. And how much we simply couldn't do. Sigh. Way, way, way down the list of "stuff I didn't do" is, of course, … [Read more...]
CT Movies that Aren’t Really CT Movies
Hold The Nutmeg CT Movies that Aren't Really CT Movies This page is impossibly dumb. First of all, me reviewing movies is dumb since I've never been a "movie guy" and don't have any reference points from which to review. But since I compiled and began slogging through so-called "Connecticut movies," I've come to … [Read more...]
Isabelle et Vincent
Oui, Oui, Oui All the Way Home Isabelle et Vincent, Fairfield April 2020 I have been known to bore people with the following story about our trip to France in 2004: A cheap baguette from a random little shop in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere in France is better than a baguette from any American high-end … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Night Country
Ghosted The Night Country by Stewart O’Nan (2004) West Hartford Library Even if this book was terrible, I'd still kind of love it. Stewart O'Nan has a thing for setting his stories in the very real places that he knows best. I'd previously read Last Night at the Lobster which is set, more or less, at the mall … [Read more...]
Farmington River Park
Roots Rock Farmington River Park, Bloomfield & Windsor May 2020 I've written several times about the pockets of Bloomfield over on the western edge along the Metacomet Ridge. And for good reason! Several cool trails course up and down the hill over there. But there are other "hidden" spots in Bloomfield - … [Read more...]
Guilford Smith Library Museum
... Where They Bury the Lies Windham (Google Maps location) January 5, 2019 For the thousands of you who have already read about my visit to the Edward A. Card Photography Museum, you know the deal here. For those that shamefully haven't, the deal is that there are two museums at the Guilford Smith Library, and I … [Read more...]
A Simple Favor (2018)
Simply Dumb A Simple Favor, 2018 Here we are... another movie set in Fairfield County and another impossibly gorgeous modern house. While the movie wasn't filmed in Connecticut, we can play that game again of "guess where this movie would take place if they named a place?" This one would be New Canaan. We can … [Read more...]
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