It is a well-documented fact that I have a certain automatic distrust for babies, though I should like to be fed, clothed and cared for. Perhaps I view them as competition.

So a baby has to be exceptionally cute for me to be warm to it… but my frequent co-conspirator Ruba has had a heck of an adorable baby:

Congrats Ruba and Shom. Welcome, new friend. How long will it be before we can play Scrabulous? With your parents, I give it… six to eight days.

Every so often, you hear a song and it just blows you away. Though you heard the song only one time, it sticks in your brain. You walk around humming to yourself. You hear other songs, but they don’t measure up. You think about that song, think about its melody, and determine to purchase the album that contains that song. Sometimes, this action proves to be a brilliant bit of foresight on your part: maybe you bought Vivid by Living Colour. Other times, your gamble does not pay off.

Perhaps when I arrived at the store to purchase Sia’s Some People Have Real Problems, I should have been cued in by the absolute idiocy of the cover. But her song “The Girl You Lost to Cocaine,” with its whiny, Nelly Furtado-like vocals and killer hook was deeply, deeply embedded in my brain. I was fully prepared for a few of the songs to be filler, but I ignored the obvious warning signs presented by the cover and it’s MS-Paint sprawl.

Seriously, I bought an album that looks like this:

God, what was I thinking?

Well, here’s what I was thinking: “The Girl You Lost to Cocaine” (mp3)