There's now a picture of the collapsed building on the front page of the NY Times website: [link]

In other news, one of the BIG disasvantages of my adorable chamring daughter is the fact that I have had "Elmo's song" in my head for DAYS. I shelve books singing, "La la la, La la la, Elmo's song..."

One of the little-known hazards of parenting. I limit Annabel's PBS to Sesame Street and Between the Lions just because the earworms are a tad less obnoxious than with Teletubbies, Barney, etc.

Poor little silhouette guy getting twisted and chewed up by the axle.

That's awesome. My dad got falling-rock signs that involved a car with a smushed roof for the road up to the observatory. They kept getting stolen, though.

There's a warning sticker on our overhead cabinets in our cubicles warning about the door on it. The stick figure guy is supposed to look like he's being hit int he head by a falling door, but looks like he's being impaled with a pole.

Damn cats! Why do we bring wild animals into the house, anyway?!??!

Because they have cute snores when they're curled up next to you, holding your wrist between their front paws.

I am earwormed with "Oooh Child." I think my friendslist is somehow at fault, but I'm scared to go back.

I am in total fog this morning. I may need to go back to my car and lie down. And come back with coffee.

I love Ooh Child, and it's a much better earworm than Cat Scratch Fever. Thanks, ita.

From reading the Columbus Dispatch this morning (I'd link, but the damn thing isn't free online), the guy who was arrested wasn't the owner of the alligator, he was a friend of the owner.

And the kitten in question had escaped from the gator's cage when animal control officers got there. As did the ALLIGATOR. When the officers got there, the two men were kicking the alligator, too--so it appears they are equal opportunity animal abusers.

The asshole then threw the kitten about 15 feet where it fell onto a concrete sidewalk and got a concussion. It's been treated and will be adopted.

So this isn't a simple case of feeding live prey to a pet but obviously observed examples of abusing animals (and people).

We were over at a friends yesterday and spent a little time watching out wedding video (which the friends shot and had just gotten a copy of from another friend who has been editing it forever - we don't randomly force people to watch our wedding video, honest) and they're not quite 2 year old daughter spent about 5 minutes asking "Watch Elmo? Watch Elmo? Watch Elmo?" without pause. It was cute because I could, you know, leave and not hear that all day long.

When the current generation of toddlers grows up, they will be the first to elect a muppet for president.