tech support: we find your missing sock

Wherein I just took a call from a user who couldn't remember where to find the Oracle. Yes, I knew the answer, but.

If I had been quicker on the uptake, I would have *ZOT*ed him for not opening with a grovel. L'esprit d'escalier, again.

I appear to be hallucinating again

Dragged audiovile into watching Scrubs. Got to fourth episode w/John Cale cover of "Hallelujah". Explained it was a Leonard Cohen song and though this version was quite fine I liked the original better. Naturally, being us, we repaired to the compu-cave for taste testing... Intarwub only divulges one version by the divine L.C., and it's this thing with echo on his vocals and a fucking backing choral and just a little bit too slow, but that seems to be the original; and where the hell is the version that I have heard, which is almost nothing but his own voice with a little bit of simple instrumental? Which I'm sure I heard on Radio Paradise, but their song search wotcha only shows up the same version the rest of teh intarnets admits to? And why am I banging my head into this when I should be getting a good night's sleep?

(And anyone who points up versions by Buckley, Bono, or Wainwright will get the stark fist of death in their genitalia, because not a one of their voices sounds the least like Leonard Cohen's, and a pox on you for suggesting I'd mistake them.)