Not up to fixing WP tonight.  So, no nifty dashed underlines.

Ah.  Thank you, scholar!

Any chance of making the OpenID box unchecked as a default?

Yeah, probably, if it’s just done with HTML.  But the plugin is OSS-OTS, it’s not mine.  I’ll hack their code.

It’s killing me, man.

Even if I fix this — and it’s nontrivial — others won’t: CTRL-A, CTRL-C, then “Submit” is good Internet practice everywhere.

Any chance of making the OpenID box unchecked as a default? I always forget to uncheck it and then have to retype comments. Argh.

Just did it TWICE because in the meantime I mistyped the CAPTCHA code, so when I came back it had RECHECKED the OpenID box. It’s killing me, man.

Yeah — but he’s fuckin’ Jay-Z.  He gets a free pass on weird references.  Not to mention that I don’t really class him as “light rap”.

And it feels so real I can feel it
And it tastes so real I can taste it
And it sounds so real I can hear it
And it is so real I can be it

And if peace is real, why can’t the world be it?
And if love is real — we all know love is real

And it feels so real I can feel it
And it tastes so real I can taste it
And it sounds so real I can hear it
And it is so real I swear I could be it

So why can’t I touch it?
So why can’t I touch it?

That, of course, is my opinion.  Except I’m right. 

Yeah, and I’ve also got a girl who looks good, and I call her. Still, Skee-Lo wishes he was “like six foot nine”, and I’m only 6’6″. You can always wish for more.

That jam has what has always struck me as the weirdest shout-out in light rap: Buffalo Springfield.

Dude, Jay Z lifted Hard Knock Life from Annie. Annie! Buffalo Springfield can’t top that.

But hearing a list of what another human being most desires takes us a lot closer to understanding him.

See, to me this particular song always came across as a little too “let’s get high and have a jam session and make up the lyrics as we go along” for my tastes. It doesn’t tell me anything about Vedder, except that he knows that “good” rhymes with “hood”. It is, to me (and I’m certainly not saying that this is a universal thing), probably one of the least personal and revelatory songs in the main Pearl Jam body of work. Obviously, reactions vary.

Oh, meant to comment on that, too:

1)  But … but … you are tall!
2)  That jam has what has always struck me as the weirdest shout-out in light rap: Buffalo Springfield.  Huh.

Well — I’m not entirely sure that they “speak to me”, either, insofar as they would be what I would wish for.  But hearing a list of what another human being most desires takes us a lot closer to understanding him.  Maybe if I taught junior high English I would assign the students to set their own lyrics to this (this is a very good argument against my teaching junior high English, probably.)

My favorite line, taking it as a list of Ed’s wishes:

I wish I was a messenger and all the news was good

He is a messenger — and all the news is profoundly not good.  Heartbreaking.