"You already know the story / And the chords are just the same / You already know I love you / And I sound like what's-his-name," I've got Wilco's Someone Else's Song lyrics onscreen over the nights-set-apart trumpet break of Chet Baker's But Not for Me, track one side B of "To the Seductive Calumet River Girl," the month-old latest posting to the slowing Cassettes From My Ex. Track one, side A is the Replacements' Unsatisfied, and talk about an honest way to start a mix, talk about trusting she'll know you don't mean her and hear your track two. But the price of admission is the sixth song, new to me, Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams singing You're Still Standin' There. I've been awake since one for no good reason, and I think this is the only song that's going to put me back to sleep. Or recently on radio, Kiss Me Deadly.

"I ain't never did no wrong…."

On the morning radio, somehow, last week: Ini Kamoze, Here Comes The Hotstepper (the lyrical gansta song). The related videos on Youtube are amazing: Inner Circle, Sweat (A La La La La Long);  Reel 2 Real, I Like to Move It; Wreckx-N-Effect, Rumpshaker; Montell Jordan, This Is How We Do It. And of course hardly more than a click away: No Diggity.

It's not the gridlock. It's a plate the camera couldn't quite make out. Heart, body, work, car, all off by half an inch. Here's to April's arrival!

(The patrickcooper.com March indicator in the left rail is now off.)

It's easy to complain how older fans dominate Bruce crowds until you realize you've been using the same site to find bootlegs for a decade.

A very happy birthday to Springsteen.on-demand/Lacava.org/SPL, the one place online I'd pay for content (except they give it away for free).

"Project Squirrel" wants your reports on squirrels — observations, stories and photos from your Chicago neighborhood and its squirrels. This is a great idea because you can pretty sure the squirrels are collecting the same information on us. Lindsay forwards the link this morning with the subject line "O…M…G," and I couldn't agree more.

But the "Citizen Scientist" methods of squirrel reporting leave much to be desired. See a squirrel? Fill out a Web form. Want to tell a story? There's e-mail or snail mail. Have a photo? E-mail again. We can't win this way. Project Squirrel's leaders, if you're going to stand a chance against the squirrels, you're going to have to get 2.0 and mobile fast.

1. First, you need some Twitter. I offer the #projectsquirrel hashtag. What are *you* doing right now? Storytelling in a way that keeps up with squirrels, that's what. If you're writing more than 140 characters about a squirrel, you're done. Game over. In the time I've been writing this post, for instance, squirrels have done two billion things.

2. Next, some Flickr. The issue: Squirrels are small. If you don't zoom, you're never going to recognize a squirrel later. At the same time, you can't forget where you are. Otherwise, you're going to say, "Oh yeah, that squirrel was … Chris? Anthony? The one who didn't wear shoes at the thing. You know who I mean?" And then you are the worst Citizen Scientist ever.  Multiple sizes and geocoding save your butt.

3. An iPhone app would clearly be the catch-all. Capture the content. Upload to Flickr. Send to Twitter and Facebook. Geocode. Touch your way through the data form. Get a timelined map of other sightings at your location. Shake the phone to find nearby nuts (UrbanCheeks).

Other ideas? Comment below. What we want is solid squirrel-centered design. How might we better understand squirrels? This post has I know jumped to solutions too quickly, so let's take a big step back. Observe in your local park, tell stories ("Then he went to the bench, to the tree, to the bench, to the tree…"), find the common threads ("Each squirrel had a deranged look in his eyes") and brainstorm. Defer judgment and go for quantity. We need to make it through the winter. We can do it.

(Synthesis stage)

A DCRTV commenter caught onto this as well, but 94.7 sounded great tonight on the drive home, best I've heard it since the day the Globe launched. Did someone give Cerphe permission to play whatever he wanted with the clock running out? It's too bad the station's website is gone because I didn't know half the stuff. The playlist seemed back to more conservative choices by later in the evening, but the run was good while it lasted. (Can the PPM track blocks like that one? Could it have made a little bit of a case for or against that kind of looseness?)

Best discovery in the bunch: Eagles, Those Shoes. I've somehow never heard this song on the radio or anywhere else until tonight. "Got those pretty little straps around your ankles / Got those shiny little chains around your heart…" Unfortunately, you can't find a full, free, original version on the Web. No YouTube, no Google Videos, no iMeem, no Blip.fm, no Last.fm. Don Henley, thanks so much. You still got my dollar on iTunes, but you continue to live up to your Don Henley-ness.

Second best moment: Hearing the CCR Live in Europe version of Hey Tonight. I would've driven off the Tysons road if not for a cute blonde driving an SUV in the next lane. You could probably count on one hand the number of times that cut has played on D.C. radio in my lifetime.