I posted this the other day and entirely forgot to follow up. Within hours of posting the lyrics, the talented (not to mention handsome and debonair) Max Sparber (astrozombie from Metafilter) decided to take a crack at setting them to music. The resulting demo is a masterpiece of bone dry, tex-mex heart break and, if I had the contacts, I’d be on the phone to the Handsome Family to flog it.

This whole thing has moved me more than a (mostly) random act of awesome would normally have done because I’m reading “Here Comes Everybody” by Clay Shirky at the moment and the whole saga seems like it could be a case study from that book - except that “crowdsourcing” a problem doesn’t always guarantee that you’re particular problem is going to be addressed by a polymath-playwright-humourist-ventriloquist-and-all-round-good-egg like Mr Sparber.

And, just when the world seemed like it couldn’t be a more rosey place, it turns out that Sparber is also the guy whose girlfriend cried over the Wall-E trailer- the story which, if you’ve spent any time in the pub with me over the last few months, you’ll have heard me banging on about regularly.

So, in summary: OMFGINTERNETS