The Ironic Mullet :: Lee Ann Westover

...cuz I have been waiting for a pair of undies with a stupid pocket

Meh! It's Official!

Am I psychic?

Meh is being added to the dictionary!

Please to check your register!

I'll just say it. I think La Palin is an evil genius and that McCain would be a horrible prezzie. I think their ticket's policies stink. I want to keep HER out of the White House. I want to keep HIM out of the White House.

That said, I am a big supported of voter rights... powers...elections...bla-dee-bla.

So, please be sure to double check that you are indeed correctly registered to vote!

Time Out New York's Django Scoggins posted an elegant little story on the subject:

"FOR FIRST-TIMERS

As long as you have lived in New York City for more than 30 days, will be 18 by the date of the election, and are not currently serving a jail sentence or on parole for a felony conviction, and the courts have not judged you mentally incompetent, you should click on the following link, fill out the form and drop it in the mail pronto:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/vac/html/register/register_to_vote.shtml

You may also register in person at any of the offices listed here:

http://www.vote.nyc.ny.us/offices.html

VOTED BEFORE?

If you have recently moved or have missed a recent election, you can check your status here:

https://voterlookup.elections.state.ny.us/votersearch.aspx

And here’s another good link for general voting information:

http://www.nyvv.org/

Now go. The clock is ticking!"

Hanging chad graphic boosted from the U of Iowa

Post on the TONY Blog

Tonight we're gonna google like its-two-thousand-and-one...

In honor of it's tenth anniversary, Google is letting you search the web according to their 2001 index.

I was in Strange Cargo (my old band) and still listed a ton with The Camaros (my other old band).

It's a fun trip down souvenir boulevard!

GOOGLE YOURSELF IN 2001

Daily Intelligencer

Bailout passed!!! Pork sucks.

Just cuz maybe it will have an effect on future budgets for travel and music...

BAILOUT PASSED!

NYT

UH-OH! No bailout! Breaking news...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/business/30bailout.html?hp

I don't generally report of financial matters, but in case you haven't heard, the bailout didn't get past the house today!

I can't say I was happy about giving a bunch of greedy douchebags $700 billion, but I am biting the inside of my cheek as I ponder the aftermath. Flames? Destructions? Free-falls?

I virtually hold your hand for comfort.

image ripped off from NY Mag's Daily Intelligencer

UPDATE 4:33 pm From CNN.COM OMG! "Stocks skidded this afternoon, with the Dow's nearly 778-point drop being the worst single-day point loss ever, after the House rejected the government's $700 billion bank bailout plan."

Meh. Origins and Definitions. Lol. ROFLCOPTER. ding!

<--Shirt from Think Geek

Recently, the Lascivious Biddies performed an amazingly fun show at NYC's the Zipper Factory for all sorts of wonderful, supportive people who may have a rather big impact on our career - a "showcase," as it were. In the afterward, I find daily life a little wanting...like a saltine after cornbread.

Cut to last week: I was walking along a corridor in this office building, and fellow worker bee Karl asked me how was doing. My reply? Meh.

We all know the meaning of meh, but how does one define it? Neither here nor there? Dunno? No Comment?

Well, Karl and I had a quick word over the possible meanings and etymology of meh. After a few minutes on Google, he'd uncovered all sorts of interesting information, which (all together now in Yoda voice) I with you now will share.

The first documented pop-culture-y usage (invention?) of the word occurred in an episode The Simpsons. According to Urban Dictionary, "in the episode Hungry, Hungry Homer, Bart and Lisa respond to a Homer inquiry with meh."

Homer: Kids... how would you... like to go to... Blocko Land??
Lisa/Bart: Meh.
Homer: But ... the TV gave me the impression that ...
Bart: We said "meh".
Lisa: M-e-h. Meh.

Other sources have spotted the word in episodes ranging from 1992 onwards. Debate is ongoing.

I live in New York City, so I have adopted many Yiddish words as my own (Meshugeneh, Goyem, Shiksa - just the important ones). Because of meh's semi-humourous, dismissive tone, I suspected that it might be a Yiddish expression as well - or derivitive of one. A discussion on WordOrigins.com points out that I may be correct - maybe a 5% percent chance.

Michael Hann writing in The Guardian March 2007, just before the Wordorigins “meh” thread (RIP): Some amateur etymologists on the web reckon meh is derived from Yiddish, pointing to a 1936 song that uses it as the sound of a goat bleating. A poster on Artblog.net called it a “Yiddish interjection used to express disdain that borders on apathy”, but did not source it. “Many North American English interjections do have some basis in Yiddish,” accepts Diamond. But does this one? “I can’t say.”

<--Meh to-go at Think Geek as well.

Count me in as an amateur etymologist on the web. Regardless of where it comes from, though, I bet we all agree as to usage.

What do you want for lunch? Meh.
(I don't really care.)

How do you like my new boyfriend? Meh.
(I could take him or leave him.)

How are you today? Meh.
(Not excellent, but not bad either. Nothing is exactly wrong, but not right either. I'd rather not explore the issue too deeply for fear of breaking through to my true, desperate, unerlying unhappiness.

OR Hungover.)

Does my ass look fat in this dress? Meh.
(Yes, but I am not exactly rude enough to say so directly).

By the by, have you all noticed that lol only means giggle now, LOL means giggle harder, and only ROFLCOPTER really means you actually are in danger of squirting milk out of your nose?

The Radness: Boston.com's The Big Picture

I love a blog that manages to post 30 or so items a day, for my amusement and information [Jezebel, Gawker].

That said, my favorite blog of all (no joke) only posts about once a week - and never ceases to move me.

In each entry, Boston.com's The Big Picture publishes up to 25 large-format photos - covering events like the California wildfires, famine (again) in Ethiopia or shots from the lives of our presidential campaign frontrunners.

Have a look - it's great stuff.

Apartment Solar Energy? Beam me up Scotty.

SO...Queens Crap reports that, just in time for a horrible, sweltering, sticky NYC summer, ConEd is about to raise their rates. We are not talking a small hike here, but a potential reaming of THIRTY PERCENT!  YEARRRGH.

{bangs head on desk}

Last year I spent about $150 a month to power my 2 little energy star air conditioners. That means that for July and August (when we REALLY let them run) we'll be paying something like 200 clams for the priviledge of not melting!!

So, how many summers will it take for me to pay off this small Sundance Solar kit? 20W ain't eactly enough to run my A/C, but it is just enough for me to lounge under my single, off-the-grid lightbulb and mutter "Screw you guys."

PS:

It seems dangerously close to cooking meth, but the handy among you could just make your own solar panels... [The Solar Plan]

United Airlines Baggage news & Boris the famous cat:

Yesterday evening, The Lascivious Biddies flew out of LaGuardia to Denver on United. We have an unweildy merch bag that needed to be checked. As you know, United now charges $25 for the second checked bag. Here's what you may NOT know:

United Premier members (25,000 miles plus) don't have to pay! Lucky for us, Saskia (our bassist) is Premier (in more ways than one), so she checked it for us (thank you Sas). I had already paid the $25 dollar fee and sent the bag down the conveyer, so you missed a rather comic moment of us yelling "STOP THE BAG! I'm so sorry...PLEASE STOP IT!" We took the receipt for my paid bag down to an actual agent (agents don't work with the rabble anymore - I feel impressed that the dude kept it together to check my I.D.). Said actual agent was pleasant and helpful while refunding the fee to our card.

My friend is moving to London. She has an excedingly rad cat named Boris who needs a home..can you help her? At least look at the cute photo http://mycatboris.blogspot.com/