YouTube video tackles 35W collapse

Come on, children, all together now:

"I-35 is falling down/ falling down/ falling down/I-35 is falling down/My dear Pawlenty."

So the song goes when uttered from the lips of Carter Malouf, a Minneapolis native and sophomore at Washington University in St. Louis.

Malouf composed the lyrics, designed the more than decent illustrations and worked the camera for her 2-minute video, now posted on YouTube. It documents the story of the I-35W bridge and its collapse in August through a very unlikely manner -- Malouf's voice is sugary sweet, in a strung out/mildly disturbed kind of way, but her blunt lyrics ("We need to fix this bridge/but there's no money") are only more depressing when contrasted with the classic children's rhyme.

There are some phrases that don't translate fluidly into sing-a-long format -- consider harmonizing on the words "structurally deficient" -- but Malouf's video is definitely worth a peek. And as some of the comments viewers posted include "Rad!" and "Great vid!" other people seem to think the same.