CHOW [and CHEKIT]: "Maybe if I put a little dish of butter sauce here with a nutcracker, it'll run out the other side."

"Be Free! Be free, you disgusting, freakish giant spider cousin! Scurry to freedom!"

My friend Jen (whom you'll be hearing from soon in Dispatches, as she sends us some fun pix and posts from Japan) sent this along yesterday:

Headline from AP: Gigantic Lobster Spared From Boiling Grave

If this one was under the refrigerator, it woulda picked it up and KILLED Alvy with it.

Unfortunately, Bubba was not long for this earth. Oh, creepily huge sea creature, we hardly knew ye.

[Thnx to Fry]