FOILED AGAIN: I thought I was being soooo smart -- drafting a self-referential post at this hour queued via the Blogger.com interface to be published on March 13, 2011 at 2:30 am -- a time which, as you know, will not occur thanks to the Daylight Savings Time shift at 2am. I was curious to see what would happen -- would I wake up and find Biff Tannen as my mayor?

Blogger.com is one step ahead of me, sadly. Because when I scheduled this post to be published at that time, an error message popped up: "Because of a daylight savings time shift on the date entered, the time entered does not exist."  So you're seeing it now instead.

(But what if I were posting from Arizona, which does not observe Daylight Savings Time and therefore it does exist? Related, how do tv stations and cable networks broadcasting in Arizona account for the extra hour experienced there tonight while the rest of us jump ahead?)

YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU MAY ABOUT ANYONE:  Gene Weingarten complains that Our National Anthem is "a mess":

15 dangling clauses that seem more or less mix-and-match interchangeable (Oh, say! can you see/through the perilous fight/o'er the land of the free/by the dawn's early light ... ), all of it amounting to a single, convoluted question that is then ... not answered. The printed lyrics actually end in a question mark.

Does the flag still wave? As yet undetermined! The answer doesn't arrive until the second stanza, which no one knows because it is mostly sung in creepy, hyper-patriotic gatherings of, say, ladies who are direct descendants of Cotton Mather, or during secret Masonic initiation rites involving men wearing aprons.

So the double-Pulitzered Weingarten does the only thing he can: write a new National Anthem, setting the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the tune of the William Tell Overture, and has Christine Lavin test out how it sounds. "If you're popped by a cop, then you get a trial/Army troops won't be cooped in your domicile" just may catch on.

GIRL ON FIRE: Since I didn't see Winter's Bone, my sole exposure to Jennifer Lawrence has been her red carpet appearances (though I'll see her in X-Men: First Class, and may see The Beaver). As I result, I'm not quite sure what to think of reports that's she's close to signing a deal to play Katniss Everdeeen in The Hunger Games. From what I've seen thus far, she looks a little too old and too glamorous to play Katniss (though she's deglammed quite effectively in the clips from Winter's Bone I've seen)--two of the other finalists--True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld and Abigail Breslin--seem to fit the bill a little better. With Katniss cast, there's still a bunch of interesting stuff to be cast--Peeta, Haymitch, Gale, Rue, Effie Trinket (loved EW's pitch of Elizabeth Banks for the role), Cinna (Project Runway's Austin Scarlett?). Any suggestions?

WE'LL TAKE THE PHYSICAL CHALLENGE! Yes, The Hub's Family Game Night is okay, but I'll gladly co-sign Ken Tucker's call for a revival of Double Dare.

WHAT: A Good Boy; Becomes Of The Brokenhearted; Do You Do With A B.A. In English; Goes Around.../...Comes Around; I Like About You; Is This Feeling?; It Feels Like For A Girl; It's Like; The Hell; Would You Say; You Own; You Want; 'd I Say; 's Love Got To Do With It; 's My Age Again?; 's Simple Is True; 's The Buzz; 's The Frequency, Kenneth?; 's The Matter Here?; 's Up?

OH, 'CAUSE HONEY BELIEVE ME - I'D SURE LOVE TO CALL YOU MY GIRLFRIEND:  Following up on Tuesday's discussion, our friend-who-has-gone-on-six-dates writes:

Given your kind suggestions, I will now begin telling my inquisitors that "I am seeing someone." The conversation can wait. I like him.

AN ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: I recently discovered that what we thought of as anonymous commenting on this site ... isn't. If you want a post to be untraceable, there's a way to do it (I think), but merely typing in "Anonymous" as your commenting name isn't it.

Here's what I found: even when you don't log in before commenting, it looks like JS-Kit will still associate that identity with comments previously posted from that IP address and, therefore, if you click on that name thereafter to view the details, it'll pull up those previous (and named) comments.

So, what to do if you'd like to post anonymously? Use a proxy server, and if someone can suggest a good one I know it will be appreciated. Look: posting under some consistent name here is the norm, and it's how this community gets built and sustained.  But there remain circumstances in which anonymous commenting is warranted. and I want to ensure we protect your ability to do that as best we can.

[No Grammar Rodeo today; we totally did that on Tuesday, and there's plenty of time to argue about when you should employ the passive voice, and when it should not be used.]