Those Crazy Cougars!

Back from the wrong coast, I was excited to sit down and listen to everyone’s favorite WNPR host talk about the woods–because I love forests of all kinds and after our adventure through Yosemite, I love them even more. But then they said the words I fear most: mountain lion.

Ghosts Plague Bridgeport Residents

An abandoned factory in Bridgeport is being called “eerie” but not for the reasons one would expect. I fear most places in Bridgeport because of the likelihood that I will be sacrificed in a Santeria ritual.  However, this time around, it’s ghosts that are apparently scaring the bajeesus out of visitors to the B-po.

I’ll Have the MaryJane Boost Please!

I managed to get through a week in California without accidentally ordering medical marijuana in a smoothie–or my chili beans–and now I come home to this:

What’s Your Favorite Local Dive?

Connecticut, we want to know what your favorite local dive bar is! We love cheap beer, colorful characters, and a good bar brawl so we want to know what your favorite hangouts are…so we can drink in them, and then judge which one is the best.

Patrons, bartenders, owners, policemen who have to haul drunks off to the tank on Saturday nights…send us your votes. Tell us the name of the bar and the town it’s in, and when we get anough submissions, we’ll start our “research.” Then we’ll declare a favorite based on some sort of random criteria we have yet to establish!

Send us an email (thecutmag@gmail.com),  a Tweet, leave a comment, or find us on Facebook and let us know what your favorite place to get drunk is!

Putting Connecticut on the Springfield Map

Wondering which CT celebrity will rise to prominence in the absence of our much beloved Paul Newman?

Viva Los Banos!

Back on Halloween, the PrissyBitch and I sat down to plan out a California roadtrip. By “plan” I mean, we looked at a map, decided whereabouts we wanted to go, then booked our rental car, and a hotel for one of the three nights we were there. We found a few towns on the map between San Francisco and Yosemite National Park that we thought we might want to stop into — judging simply by how funny the names sounded, and that was that. Hilarity ensued.

We landed in San Francisco at 10:30 a.m. on Friday morning, and headed toward the rental car counter. We were informed that they could offer a complimentary upgrade from an economy car to a mid-size car. “What would the car be?” we asked. “A PT Cruiser,” the guy said. “We’d prefer a Hyundai or a Ford Focus,” we said. But, alas, we ended up with an under-powered red hearse to drive around, considering there weren’t actually any Economy cars left. I supposed that’s what we get for going with FOX rental car, which is basically unheard of on the East coast.

You Sunk My Battleship! (Sort of…)

The Gay Guru doesn’t typically cover the news desk, but with The Anti-Couric on vacation, I couldn’t help but jump in when I came across this gem costing us taxpayers $100 million.

Stealing from the Mouths of Children

Just how many tater tots and chicken patties could $335,000 have bought? Oh, and jello cups with rock hard “whipped cream” on top? I weep to think of the waste…

Authorities say a Rhode Island woman’s gambling debts led her to embezzle almost $335,000 from the company that runs East Lyme’s school lunch program.

Give Back Already, Ya Scrooges

As we all give thanks and eat this guy, it's time to give back.

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and with many still jobless and foreclosures 19% higher than this time last year, we’re all pretty depressed about it here at The CuT. For most of us, it’s not much of a change since we’ve always been poor as shit. We’re now even more thankful for the little we have…like roofs over our heads and Ramen in our bellies.

We’re well aware there are others less fortunate than ourselves, so as we get ready to gorge ourselves on turkey (or its bastard cousin, Tofurkey) it’s also a good time of year to give back. Since we can’t be dumping lots of cash into charities, here are a few ways we can all give back a little–and sleep better at night with our heat just high enough to keep the pipes from bursting.

Grandma?

We know the training of “don’t talk to strangers” is successful when kids will run away from a grandmother trying to keep kids from catching their death in cold rain. However, it’s totally understandable when the kids mistake 69-year old Granny for a 20-40 year old dude in a feather tipped hat. I might have run away too.

The creepy man who schoolchildren said tried to lure them into his car Friday turned out to be the well-intentioned grandmother of fellow students, police said today.

For the Fame Hungry

Important things are happening, Connecticut. I”m pretty sure that by this time next year I’ll be famous and it’s all thanks to the first ever New England Film and TV Expo, held at the Bushnell on November 7. Brace yourself!

iPhone for Cheapskates

So, we here at The CuT are incredible bargain hunters. We’ve decided to share that knowledge with you through our new “Cheapskate” series. And we’re kicking it off with our tips for the iPhone, since both the Asian-Persuasion and myself recently joined the club. (RingNAtion continues to use his Zack Morris phone, and Gay Guru is a hardcore Verizon enthusiast.)

In any case, being poor–mostly because no one pays us for the large amount of time we spend on this blog–we both opted for the refurbished option. As much I personally loathe Apple (my Mac at work is the computer equivalent of an epileptic), they do offer some pretty sweet deals on their refurbished stuff…and it’s all pretty much brand new.

Guns & Bad Driving

I don’t know about you but anytime I have a drink with dinner and then have to drive home, I drive extra carefully. I set my cruise control for the speed limit and signal obsessively. The last thing I need is to get pulled over for driving 75 mph in a 65, and the nhave to make fun of myself on this site. So I have to wonder about people like this:

Police seized a .40-caliber handgun and arrested two people during a traffic stop near the intersection of Washington and Vernon streets early Monday morning.

The driver, Merenciano Plasencia, 55, was charged with failure to signal, interfering with police, weapon in a motor vehicle and carrying a pistol without a permit. The passenger, Luis Plasencia, 29, was charged with interfering with police.

I guess we can all thank our lucky stars that no one in this state knows how to properly use a blinker.To think, a simple flip of the signal indicator could have left this gun-wielding man on the streets.

Not Yo’ Cheese

One has to wonder if you should be laughing at this story. What if the guy was stealing copious amounts of Colby Jack to feed his kids?

Police arrested a man they say stole four blocks of cheese from a local grocery store and pulled a knife on the manager when he tried to stop the theft…

Who’s Yer Daddy?

I don’t know what’s more disturbing–the fact that this happened, that a white doctor tried to give his sperm to mixed race couple (where the daddy was black) and didn’t think anyone would notice, or that he still has his license?!

(CBS) A Connecticut doctor was sued for allegedly using his own sperm — instead of a patient’s husband’s — for an artificial insemination procedure that produced twins.