The weird part of this story is that she has four sons and can find five quiet minutes to read, let alone get a whole book done.
[October 28, 2009] A Westport woman is nearing the end of her year-long goal of reading a full book a day and blogging about it . . .
Source: Connecticut Post

Darwin awaits with bated breath.
[October 27, 2009] A video of high school kids participating in “The Choking Game” in order to catch a high was discovered in West Hartford . . .
Source: Hartford Courant

These kids have a lot to learn — rubber gloves are for hiding cocaine, not bullets!
[October 24, 2009] Middletown police report that nine bullets were found inside of a rubber glove in a second-grade classroom this week …
Source: Middletown Press

As we continue to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, it’s time to check out a few new space stories, and report on a new space place in Connecticut.

We had them on the outside of our house on Tuesday, as it seems many others in the state did.
[October 20, 2009] All across Connecticut, ladybugs were out in full force, forced out by the Nor’easter that blew through the state this past weekend …
Source: NBC 30

Is the future trying to come to our present to stop the impending ignition of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland? Some legitimate physicists think it’s a possibility. What us, worry?

Knew that there had to be a Connecticut connection with this story!
[October 16, 2009] The Colorado family whose son was believed to have been trapped in a wayward balloon was on an episode of “Wife Swap” where they swapped mothers with a Trumbull family . . .
Source: Hartford Courant

Don’t know if this qualifies more as “sick” than “weird.” Creepy either way.
[October 16, 2009] A recently released affidavit in the grisly murder of a New Britain man details how the victim was dismembered, with his genitals missing altogether . . .
Source: New Britain Herald

October ’tis the season for horror films, and we’ve seen more than our fair share. Here’s a few of our favorites from when we were still developing our damned tastes.

Aren’t stealth and silence a big part of the ninja code?
[October 12, 2009] A man dressed as a ninja was arrested in Vernon for waving nunchuks and shouting about fighting Sen. Joe Lieberman . . .
Source: NBC 30