gone viral

i got this e-mail from my good friend jesse yesterday. (jesse is my mentor in all things political and one of the smartest people i know -- curse you montessori children!): " I know I'm not Brian Williams, but I have gone viral. Surely this will get me a blurb on your blog."

it started with jesse taking his son xavi to the zoo and recording something he found a bit disturbing. he e-mailed it to a woman at the chronicle who wrote an article about it.

since then:

nearly 10,000 hits on fark.com (I love the comments): http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3317288

7th most watched video on cnn.com (click on most watched tab)

http://www.cnn.com/mostpopular/

KTRH radio story:

http://www.ktrh.com/cc-common/mainheadlines3.html?feed=121300&article=3118296

Blogs:

I posted a comment to this one: http://www.absolutelytrue.com/index.php/a/2008/01/09/this_seems_like_a_good_idea

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e60_1199878532

http://tastybooze.com/2008/01/lion-tug-of-war-this-has-got-to-end-well/

http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2008/01/houston-zoo-lets-visitors-play-tug-of.html

http://www.daylife.com/article/0ea772x9EVen3

http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/594716

other tv stations picking it up:

http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/txcn/houston/stories/khou080108_tnt_zoogames.2ba51eb.html

http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/010908kvuezoogames-eh.5d8348a.html

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou080108_tnt_zoogames.2ba51eb.html