It's a sad day for Detroit hockey fans. Stevie Yzerman has decided to retire after 22 years with the team :(

I need help identifying this bush that I have growing in my backyard. There used to be two large lilac bushes growing in that corner, one bush on each side of the fence, but growing together in one big bunch. When they built that house next door earlier this spring, they tore out the lilac bush that was growing on their side of the property line ( Read more... )

Even before I took this test, I knew that this was going to be the answer.


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Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies

This is an interesting feature of LJ: Add Your School. My high school changed its name back in the mid 90's, several years after I had graduated. The name of the school now is already listed, but I added the old high school name to this list.

Awww, crap. I'm going to have to change my hockey icon. The man featured in the pic, Pavel Datsyuk, has signed up with a Russian hockey team and will not be playing for the Red Wings this year. That totally blows because he was my favorite player. Why, oh why have you forsaken me??

I'm watching CNN and they are showing a pretty big fire that has popped up next to a freeway down there in New Orleans. They are talking about how a number of fires have popped up all over town and the difficulty that the firefighters are having in putting out the fires because they can't get to them because of the flooding and debris. Why haven' ( Read more... )

There has been a rather sad legal case winding its way through the courts here in this county in the last couple of months. On January 26, 2005, Lance Cpl. Allan Klein, 34, of Clinton Township, Mich., died when the CH-53E helicopter he was in crashed near Ar Rutbah, Iraq. His divorced parents have been fighting for custody of his remains ever ( Read more... )

We are sitting here watching Sin City on the DVD player. Holy ultra-violence, Batman!

Colin Farrell is another in a long line of celebrities who thought it would be cool to videotape himself having sex with someone, a Playboy Bunny no less, and then acts shocked when the girl turned around and tried to sell the tape for a lot of money. Here is a hint Colin: If you are a public figure and you don't want embarrassing things coming ( Read more... )