I'd Go to a Nut Theme Park Transient March 2022 Yes! Finally! Back in 2006 when this website had a different name and a far more limited mission, I was bummed that I'd missed out on what was perhaps Connecticut's most famous quirky museum. Today, we have many dozens of similar eccentric little museums - and I … [Read more...]
Rick Nicita Gallery & Cinema Archives
NiceTaSeeya Nicita, if Only for a Minute Middletown (Google Maps location) February 20, 2016 How many words can I possibly write about this tiny little place? Movies. Film. Cinema. I went decades of my adult life not caring a whit about this whole world of culture and art. I probably went years without seeing … [Read more...]
UConn Basketball Books (Pre-2000)
U-C-O-N-N! UCONN! UCONN! UCONN! (basketball books) Dozens of books have been written about UConn's storied men's and women's basketball programs. After all, they won nearly 20 national championships together and in 2004 and 2014, they both won. I assume many are not dissimilar to many others. So I will read them, … [Read more...]
UConn Basketball Books (2000-2010)
U-C-O-N-N! UCONN! UCONN! UCONN! (basketball books) Dozens of books have been written about UConn's storied men's and women's basketball programs. After all, they won nearly 20 national championships together and in 2004 and 2014, they both won. I assume many are not dissimilar to many others. So I will read them, … [Read more...]
Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum (Closed)
Putting the Ire in Ireland Hamden (Google Maps location) June 14, 2014 This museum officially closed in 2021 but not without controversy. It will be interesting what happens to the collection. This museum was part of the Connecticut Art Trail. I have a whole massive list of all the stuff in Connecticut that … [Read more...]
PCU (1994)
So True PCU, 1994 I love this movie. Now, that's not to say this is a good movie. It's a totally stupid movie. But I love it anyway. Why? Because I sort of lived through everything in PCU. Let me explain. I went to UConn from 1991-1995. My high school girlfriend went to Wesleyan at the same time. We lasted as a … [Read more...]
Mory’s
A Rare Bit of CTMQ Mory's, New Haven October 2013 Greetings! You have found your way to another of the very few, very rare CTMQ pages where I write about something I didn't really experience. As you see from the pictures, I was definitely in Mory's at Yale, but I must come clean: I didn't eat or drink anything … [Read more...]
460. Art Gallery at UConn Stamford
The Kids are Alright Stamford (Google Maps location) February 28, 2020 The state's flagship university has refocused its branch locations in the early 2000's. They closed the Torrington branch, moved the Hartford one, and invested fairly heavily in the Stamford one. (Which, as Connecticut's most modern city, … [Read more...]
267. Josephine A. Dolan Nursing Museum
Will I Nurse This Review, Or Just Milk It? Mansfield (Google Maps location) May 30, 2014 What up, SON? I said, What up, SON?" Oh, hello. That's George, a heart patient simulator at UConn's School of Nursing (SON) program in Storrs. He lies in the Josephine A. Dolan Collection of nursing history and … [Read more...]
Handsome Dan
Dead Dan First College Mascot in the United States New Haven I toured some buildings on the Yale campus once, including the incredible Payne Whitney Gym. It's such an incredible gym, I called it a museum and wrote about it. And notably, no one called me an idiot for doing so. In the lobby of the massive … [Read more...]
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