Isn’t the Light OK?

Upon lis­ten­ing to Slaid Cleaves’s song “Wish­bones” the other day I com­pletely mis­heard the lyrics to the cho­rus. The actual lyrics are:
Spin the bot­tle cap, throw a shot back, everything’s gonna be all right
and I heard,
Spin the bot­tle cap, throw a Shop Vac…
I like my ver­sion better.

It’s stuff like this Ask MetaFil­ter thread that makes me wish I’d paid more atten­tion in col­lege music the­ory class. My inner geek longs to be able to express the things I hear in terms like “imper­fect cadence” and “sub­me­di­ant.”
My younger self always assumed this the­ory stuff was irrel­e­vant since I have per­fect pitch. […]

Has any­one ever been sent to Fed­eral prison for “using a prod­uct in a man­ner incon­sis­tent with its label­ing”? It seems like they would have their own cell block along with those soci­etal men­aces who pull tags off mattresses…

Much like Godzilla inad­ver­tently tram­pling inno­cent Tokyo bystanders in an epic bat­tle with Mothra, the newly-installed Spam Karma plu­gin has been delet­ing some inno­cent com­ments from non-spammers. I’m try­ing to keep an eye on it to make sure this doesn’t hap­pen again, but if your legit­i­mate com­ment has been eaten by the “mon­ster,” please try […]

I know it’s just a default and the whole world is likely using it now, but I gotta admit the vari­a­tion of the Kubrick theme that comes with the Word­press 1.5 really looks slick.