Because what gave you the idea this was a blog about fat and feminism and stuff and junk? It is now a blog about heart-stoppingly cute baby otters.
I sent the link to this video to my friend L who replied:
L: OTTER OTTER OTTER OTTER!!!!! I can’t go for a drink tonight because I am watching TINA FEY in the return of 30 Rock. TINA FEY TINA FEY TINA FEY TINA FEY!!!!!!!
OTM: Tina Fey should make a movie in which she plays a wise-cracking otter rehabilitator.
L: That I would have to watch in the privacy of my own home.
If only I had a dollar for every email exchange with L that turned into a conversation about otters, booze, and Tina Fey…
ETA:
L: Haha – way to call me out! But I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve done that, too.
OTM: I was calling us both out, actually. If I had a dollar for every time, I’d buy us an otter, get the three of us drunk, and fly us all out to visit Tina Fey.
Ottermatic 
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April 10, 2008 at 1:33 pm
kateharding
I kept thinking the video had maxed out on cute, but then there would be a WHOLE NEW CUTE THING. Baby otters are so much better for my blood pressure than fat and feminism.
As soon as it gets warm enough, we’re going to start taking long walks along the river so we can look for the fabled Chicago River otters. And when we find one, I am taking it home to live in my bathtub. And I will stop on the way home to buy it a rattle.
April 10, 2008 at 1:44 pm
OTM
Alternatively: bring flasks to the Lincoln Park Zoo.
April 10, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Meowser
If only they didn’t grow up to be so bitey. But I loves to look at ’em.
April 10, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Jackie
I live in Chicago, they have an Otter exhibit by the dolphins area at the Shedd Aquarium. You can see them pretty up close. They also have a penguin exhibit! So it’s two times the cute!
April 10, 2008 at 3:26 pm
kateharding
Alternatively: bring flasks to the Lincoln Park Zoo.
You are a genius.
(And Jackie, yes, the otters at Shedd are awesome.)
April 10, 2008 at 3:43 pm
(sweet machine) laura
IT HAS A RUBBER DUCKIE
*splodes of cute*
April 10, 2008 at 3:44 pm
everstar
If only they didn’t grow up to be so bitey.
But this is why I identify with them! I too was adorable and fluffy when I was young, and now I am all bitey. Also, I still make those angry squeaking sounds when I get up in the morning.
April 10, 2008 at 5:36 pm
The Rotund
THE SQUEAKING!!!
April 10, 2008 at 7:58 pm
wellroundedtype2
That pulled my cuteness muscle.
My non-otter baby had 3 of the same toys — very strange to see. Makes me think of alternative places to donate old baby toys. “But honey, we have to give them away… they’re for the OTTERS.”
April 10, 2008 at 8:28 pm
tadpoledrain
three words: nom nom nom.
SO CUTE!
April 11, 2008 at 6:19 am
sparklepants
Oh dear. I do believe my head just exploded.
April 11, 2008 at 6:24 am
rockportlegionband
Any idea where the vid was shot? I don’t think that’s a river otter — looks like a California Sea Otter to me.
April 11, 2008 at 6:30 am
sittingpugs
I want one!
Or would very much like to adopt one…how much would that cost?
April 11, 2008 at 6:38 am
OTM
rockportlegionband, yup that’s a sea otter for sure (the baby otter in the previous post is a river otter). Here is what the You Tube description says:
Capers, an orphaned male sea otter pup who was rescued and rehabilitated in Alaska, made his media debut at his temporary home–Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium– Thursday, July 13. He will be brought to his permanent home at the Minnesota Zoo later this fall, but will not be on exhibit until 2008.
April 11, 2008 at 7:03 am
Nan
Thank you. Looking at baby otters definitely beats working.
April 11, 2008 at 8:05 am
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April 21, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Nevis
LOVE the otter.
And I have a girl-crush on Tina Fey.
April 30, 2008 at 11:37 am
Alex
If anyone has igoogle, you can add the live ottercam from Vancouver Aquarium to your google homepage and watch sea otters 24/7 (well, not when it’s dark. but you know what I mean)
April 30, 2008 at 11:38 am
Alex
ttp://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=http://www.vanaqua.org/ottercam.xml&source=imag\
here it is…….
April 30, 2008 at 11:38 am
Alex
oops missed off an h:
http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=http://www.vanaqua.org/ottercam.xml&source=imag
April 30, 2008 at 11:59 am
OTM
Holy cannoli, will you look at that! Awesome!