Ah how the tables have turned. 

Pittsburgh beat the brakes off of Carolina to advance to their second Stanley Cup Final in as many years and the Red Wings took down the Chicago Blackhawks in 5 to advance to Cup Final as well.  Thing is, Pittsburgh looks destined to win and Detroit looked a bit tired of late…hell, they put Chris Chelios on the ice last night.  Do they allow wheelchairs on the ice?  The guy has to be at least 100 and I think he played hockey with Lord Stanley himself.  On a side note, please don’t beat me up Chris Chelios (he could still beat me like I owed him money).

So another Original Six Stanley Cup, that’s good hockey right there.  Question is…will you watch it? 

Unfortunately though, the voice of “Mickey Mouse” has passed away.  Wayne Allwine, the third voice actor of “Mickey Mouse” died Monday due to complications of diabetes, he was 62.  Allwine has done the voice longer than any of the voice actors before him.  Walt Disney voiced the mouse from 1928-1947, Jimmy MacDonald then took over and voiced him from1948-1953 and sporadically until 1977 when it was passed on to Allwine. 

If you want to read more information on Wayne, you can go to Legends.Disney.go.com.

Russi Taylor, his wife, was at his side at the time of his death and is the current voice of “Minnie Mouse.”  The couple were married in 1991.

I was reading the AJC this morning and saw a story about how Coca-Cola is creating what they are calling the “PlantBottle” that is easy to recycle (and cheaply) and will decompose quite quickly.  They are doing so under the scrutiny from some experts that the timing of said bottle has been a long time coming. 

At least they are finally making it is what I say.  Granted I’m not the most environmentally sound person, but I do believe in recycling and protecting our Mother Earth.  Everyone should be glad that the harmful plastic bottles are now being replaced with a more environmentally friendly bottle made with sugarcane and molasses.  Plastic takes between 450-1000 years to decompose while these new bottles take a fraction of the time.  My cousin in Hawai’i is apart of a similar crusade with styrafoam ‘to-go’ boxes. 

We need to protect our planet, we don’t need her pissed. 

In other news that I’m sure you are dying to know about…Ashton Kutcher was here to punk CNN by leaving 800 boxes of Ding Dongs on Ted Turner’s Ted’s Montana Grill and putting his Twitter name on the CNN logo downtown.  If you still care, you can read about it here.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/14/cnn.kutcher.prank/