Coffee! I haven't had coffee yet! And there's some not 5 feet away - score!

I heard the Mt. McKinley story on the Daily Show. I vaguely remember hearing stories about someone organizing climbing expeditions just to clean up Everest - not even try to summit, just go around picking up litter, etc. It's so weird that that's necessary.

If Owen's watching Elmo, if I put my hand in front of his face, he will push it out of the way. Repeatedly. It'd be funny if it wasn't kind of scary.

Speaking of TDS, Jon was en fuego last night with Bernard "Fathead" Goldberg. Really on his game and not letting Goldberg gettng away with platitudes.

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..."

I don't even see my niece and nephew that often and I occasionally have that in my head. It is quite pervasive.

they're not quite 2 year old daughter spent about 5 minutes asking "Watch Elmo? Watch Elmo? Watch Elmo?" without pause.

Whoever decided that the voices in the head are male obviously didn't ask about this one.

Speaking of TDS, Jon was en fuego last night with Bernard "Fathead" Goldberg.

HE SO WAS! It was great! The new studio's making him sassier. I like it.

I'm going to ask my brother about the voices in his head and if they're male.

If Owen's watching Elmo, if I put my hand in front of his face, he will push it out of the way. Repeatedly. It'd be funny if it wasn't kind of scary.

My husband does this too.

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.

Aw. My old dog gave a kitten a concussion once. It approached her food bowl while she was eating (brave kitten, this was a big German Shepherd), and she just knocked her out of the way with her head and went back on eating. Poor little kitten staggering around. It was fine, though.

That was the same litter where my dad threw one out the back door (lightly, no injury to the kitten intended or received), and dislocated his shoulder. Oh, we laughed and laughed.

Elmo is satan! [link]

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Of course, my nephew loves him too. His parents? NSM. As is evidenced above.

Kid is still obsessed with Santa(HoHo) and the Wiggles. He's gotta start dropping obsessions or he'll run out of ....something.

On the news. Grr. Some muckety-muck in the government is saying that cities and states need to pay more of the security costs for public transportaion, that the federal government is already spending a fortune on airplanes. As he put it..."An airplane can kill 3,000 people. A bomb on a subway might kill thirty."

What the FUCK? Dude, a) it took three or four airplanes to do that; b) the place where they did the bulk of that was a fairly unique opportunity and is gone now; c) how many people do you think ride a full subway? A full plane? Do math, genius.

I get instantly pissy about this. It's a hot button. People being idiots about this. Someone bitched that they should put metal detectors at subway stations ::boggles:: -- uh huh. Some people bitched when their cell phones were disabled in the under river tunnels because that's how the bombs have been triggered. (honey, people were perfectly safe driving through those things without a cell phone for a hundred years. its not security, it's almost NEVER security -- people call it "security" whenever they want access to their cell phone but mostly they want to yammer about bullshit. give your kid a quarter, let her use a pay phone. she's eight. you people are rediculous... I seem to have switched rants.)