there'll be apples on sticks and fish stands and your daddy will buy you something at the end

Here's what we at Eating Hard Candy Alone like to call a soullessness contest. This here is Antje Duvekot's song Anna, a heartbreaking little number about the delights of Alzheimers. When I was woefully undermedicated, I could not come within ten yards of this song. Now, solidly medicated, I tried to listen to it yesterday and still didn't make it past "tries to concentrate on...something."

So, team Livejournal, your mission: hear this song! And then report back exactly when you burst into tears/had to leave the room/killed yourself and others/called your grandparents on the phone.

[Anna] (right-click-save, feel free to share)

/weeping ALREADY

update: James Kim's family

In the continuing story of awesome, and missing, CNET editor James Kim, breaking news right now reports that James Kim's wife and daughters were found in some snowy Oregon mountain area, but no James! Please send your good champion vibes, esp. if you're in Oregon, that he's just somewhere gone for help, and he'll be found soon?

things that are funnier than alzheimers

In WAY WAY FUNNIER THAN A SONG ABOUT ALZHEIMERS news:

Please watch the world's funniest and most awesomest video brought to us by Bill Lawrence, Zach Braff, Donald Faison, BIG GAY MANLOVE and the upcoming Scrubs musical:

"Guy Love," a musical number performed by JD and Turk, on YouTube.

So don't say I only give you things to make you cry, pumpkins. BIG GAY GUY LOVE. Thanks, fmangel, finder of all things worth finding.

I'll even give you BONUS VIDEO: Horatio "David Caruso" Caine of CSI: Miami BFLs endlessly while taking off and putting on his sunglasses for emphasis, and then the Who song starts...