Friday evening traffic mess at N Adams and W Cross

Johnny was, well, Johnny on the spot to see this accident this evening. Ambulances on the scene, one person at least being transported. The vehicle facing you, the viewer, according to witnesses ran the stop sign heading north on N Adams into the Cross Street intersection and BLAM-O

Wow, informative AND disgusting

About 1000 people went to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital CAFETERIA lobby to see the giant inflatable colon. Yes, you read that right, GIANT INFLATABLE COLON. 8 feet high, 20 feet long and oh so graphic. The giant inflatable colon (and it skeeves Johnny out to write that each time) is part of a travelling display that was at St. Joes yesterday. Visitors got up close and personal looks at the workings of a colon, complete with healthy tissue, non-malignant diseases, and colorectal cancer (are you still with us or did you quick run over to Ypsi~Dixit's site?).


The Super Colon is owned by the Prevent Cancer Foundation and is at St. Joe's courtesy of Sanofi Aventis.

We haven't done this before---a Friday morning RIDDLE

What happens twice in a week, never in a month, and once in a year?

Answer in comments

Yet another movie to be filmed locally

After the success of the movie Jumper, parts of which were filmed in Ann Arbor, the Weinstein Group has confirmed "Youth in Revolt" will be shot here in May and June. The movie will star Michael Cera, of Superbad and JUNO fame.

If you'd like to get your foot in the door of a big movie, why not apply for a job on the set? Try here for more information.

Late night open thread

Time for Ypsilanti, After Dark

We hate Huron Acres but LOVE the idea of the A2 Skate Park

A skate park, as proposed, would be a BENEFIT to the community. Kids could go meet up with others who share their love of skating, less skaters would be on the sidewalks downtown, and you'd be giving these kids a place to call their own. We love that it's out in the open air of Vets Park where bad influences would be out in the open with many people around to see it.

Hey, we've got three little morons out there running around with loaded guns, it would make sense to try and alleviate more of them by giving them somewhere cool to go and something cool and fairly safe to do when they got there.

Check out the A2 Skate Park website for more info. You can check out just how serious these skaters really are, how they have all the pertinent City Council meetings on a calendar and a petition of support for you to sign.

Because traffic around here isn't bad enough, let's build more unneeded crap

This new ginormous proposal to build up on the north side of Arborland is just CRAP. No, make that complete CRAP. We have hotels we don't fill now, we have MUCH empty retail space, and no lack of housing for seniors but try getting that through builders thick heads. Builders could give two shits about you, and your commute and your quality of life as long as they get the money to build.

Here's the proposal from Bacall Development in Farmington Hills:

First off, they'd call it Huron Acres. No word on if Eastern Michigan University would want it named Eagle Acres. Two hotels, with a total of 240 rooms, which would share room with a medical building, mixed use office space, two restaurants, and 58 single family townhouses with attached one car garages.

Yes, because we don't have a GLUT of these things here now. YCD says NO to this boondoggle. We HAVE housing, we HAVE restaurants, we HAVE medical offices out our asses, we HAVE hotels that go unfilled. Just IMAGINE the extra traffic headaches. You know how it looks in front of Arborland NOW on football game days, now double that as cross traffic starts appearing.

The Planning Commission could consider this plan in the next two months.

Your free speech here vs free speech on the Detroit Free Press site

Johnny was just over at the Detroit Free Press website (for most likely the LAST time---poorly formed javascript among other things we're about to discuss) and would love to compare and contrast free speech and freedom to comment. You are ALWAYS free to say what you want here. We may not like it, readers may not like it but you're free to speak your mind. The Free Press website is allowing commentary on EVERY story BUT the Debbie Stabenow/husband/hooker story. Why? Seriously? What kind of censorship in commentary is that? Who does Debbie have naked pictures of on the Free Press Editorial Board?

This is simply POOR FORM in today's digital age. Shame on the Detroit Free Press. Besides, like a columnist said, we just want to talk about Debbie and how she NOW knows, thanks to her husband, what it feels like to the rest of us when she voted the way she did on the bankruptcy bill and telecom immunity.

Our little teenage thugs with guns have been charged

Three Huron High School students, you remember the ones with loaded guns on a B&E spree the other night, got their first day in court and what CLASSY young men they are. Jonathan Blanks, 14, Woodrow White-Bey, 15, and Brandon McIntyre, 17 are your citizens of the year. According to the Ann Arbor News:

"White-Bey was already on probation for stealing cars but had taken his electronic tether off, police reports said. Police said he had marijuana on him when he was arrested and also had a loaded .38 caliber handgun."

Niiiice. GREAT parenting. FIFTEEN and he's learned to take his ankle tether off and carry a bag of weed around with a loaded gun breaking into OUR homes.

Police say these morons had a loaded .22 and .38 caliber handguns when they were arrested. No gun charges were filed but could be added (and YCD would HOPE they are) at a later date.

Ann Arbor police said the teens had stolen laptops, knives, cellphones, coins and cameras from homeowners. Huron High School did confirm the three are students.

Again, when the parents are found, charge them with being idiots too.

YCD didn't THINK we needed to go into coffee eitquette around town but apparently we do

OK, coffee FAUX PAUX of the highest order. One DOES NOT stand in front of the coffee fixins bar at the local coffee house adding a dash of milk, then stirring, then tasting, then adding another dollip of milk, stir that then taste, and repeating this ad nauseum. You sure as hell don't repeat this with sugar/sweetener. You may say "This is my time to fix my coffee and I can do what I want to". Sure, just like the rest of us reserve the right, no OBLIGATION, to tell you what an anchor you're being. We also reserve the right to pour half and half on your head if you take more than a minute.