EMU football gameday

So this evening finds the EMU football team in the Glass City, in the Glass Bowl against the Rockets of Toldeo. This breakdown is really very simple. Eastern has a winnable game, they need to stop Jalen Parmele to win it. At the end of the evening look at the stats for Parmele, if he runs for a lot of yards, EMU will lose, keep him somewhat under control and ya know, EMU might just be moving up in the standings.

Upset special

EMU 22
UT 21

2007 MAC Standings
EAST CONF OVERALL
Buffalo 4-1 4-5
Miami (OH) 3-1 4-5
Bowling Green 3-2 5-4
Ohio 3-3 5-5
Temple 3-3 3-6
Akron 2-3 3-6
Kent State 1-4 3-6

WEST CONF OVERALL
Central Michigan 4-0 5-4
Ball State 3-2 5-4
Eastern Michigan 2-2 3-6
Toledo 2-3 4-5
Western Michigan 2-3 3-6
Northern Illinois 0-5 1-8

Late night open thread and multimedia extravaganza

A mostly overlooked Police song yet one of Johnny's faves. Invisible Sun. The Cranberries sure ripped this off for Zombie, eh?

Time for Ypsilanti, After Dark

Borders hosts Caroline Kennedy, yep THAT Caroline Kennedy

Hundreds of people crammed the downtown Borders to meet American Royalty on Thursday. Just a short distance from where her father, and US President John F Kennedy gave his Peace Corps speech on the steps of the Michigan Union, Caroline Kennedy was in Borders to promote her new book. A collection or prose, stories, and lyrics from such a cast of writers as Truman Capote, Groucho Marx and Charles Dickens called 'A Family Christmas'.

"I've been waiting to meet her for 34 years," said Michael Carabelli, 48, who drove nearly five hours from Buffalo to see Kennedy at Borders.

"We were thrilled to death when we heard she was coming to Ann Arbor," said Karen Kostamo of Ann Arbor.

Like father like daughter...

Chelsea Bulldogs continue their title hunt

7pm tonight at Chelsea (10-0) vs Yo Adrian (8-2)

Also of note, Milan (8-2) is at Dearborn Heights Robichaud (9-1), 2pm Saturday

Hide the kids and wake the neighbors, the Ypsitucky Colonels are on the loose!

The Ypsitucky Colonels, will be rocking out some garage-y country, power pop and melancholy popular songs this Saturday at the Tap Room Annex in lovely downtown Ypsitucky. And it just gets better, because Paul’s Big Radio is opening the show! If you haven’t been to the Tap Room Annex, it’s a great little room with good food, cold beer and spirits, and Ypsi’s only shuffleboard table.

The Annex is at 201 W. Michigan Ave, between Washington and Adams Streets. Music will start at 10 sharp. Cover is $5. You can check out the Colonel's online You can check out the Colonels online at their MySpace page.

And for the morbidly curious, Colonel Will will be performing a short-but-oh-so-sweet solo-acoustic set during the Paul’s Big Radio show tonight at TC’s Speakeasy. It’s been a long time since he's even done an open mic, so this will be an adventure. But he's excited … and, being a consummate professional, he even rehearsed.

TC’s is located, conveniently, right next door to the Annex at 207 W. Michigan Ave. Colonel Will shall play between PBR sets, probably right around 11 p.m.

Now this is just plain cool, LISTEN to the planet Saturn

That's right, Johnny said LISTEN to Saturn, as in radio waves as heard from the Cassini probe. Saturn is talking, can you dig what it's laying down?

LISTEN to Saturn

Early morning open thread

YCD is busy out doing some reporting this morning so we'll change things up, say what you have to say over your cup of Good Morning America

Late night open thread

Sir, are you trying to offer me a bribe? How much? (Groucho Marx in Monkey Business, 1931)

Time for Ypsilanti, After Dark

Well done citizen, well done

Top notch judgement and quick thinking resulted in a citizen using his cell phone to bust a bad guy.

The Payless Shoe Source located at 2555 Ellsworth Road was being robbed by a very bad man with a handgun. A customer inside the store snuck out and used his cell to call police and give a description of the robber. Police were able to use the description and pull the guy over near Hewitt Road and Michigan Avenue and slapped the cuffs on him.

Good Citizen 1
Stupid Robber 0

Good guys win, bad guys lose

YCD would HOPE this never happens

Having a company PAY for naming rights to local public schools? Blech! No, so not cool. You can name schools after people, not companies.

The Ann Arbor school board MAY approve a draft naming rights policy wherein a company COULD pay a lot of money and get a building or classroom named after themselves. From the meeting:

"The draft suggests that in order to have a facility named after a corporation or person who gave the district a lot of money, the gift should be at least 25 percent of any planned alterations to the building or the total cost of new construction."

YCD says the hell with that. You may one day want to call it the Google Ann Arbor Intermediate school whereas YCD may just call it the "Bend over for China's human rights violations school".

And nobody wants that...