ted leo: WSO

wso: slang for will sell out, and we dont mean this in a corporate america kind of way. tickets are on sale now and according to inside sources, the show is already half sold out. i rarely buy my tickets online cause im cheap and i like to save the $8, but, this will be worth it. promise. i have mine, now go get yours!

DIRTY COKE.

I'm making up for lost time, here folks. seriously.

At St. Ex last Thursday, for the 1st MODERNIST SOCIETY of 2007, I overheard my girl, Betsy, order a "dirty coke" over the din of the crowed bar and the thump of the bass from a gil scott heron track. I thought, "that's possibly the best drink man or woman has ever though of, I MUST ORDER ONE!".. and so as her drink was handed back to her and she crumped away from the bar, I too, ordered a DIRTY COKE.

Now, I've been to a few shows in my day, and my hearing is not what it used to be, but apparently she ordered a DIET coke, not a DIRTY one.

well, that wouldn't stop this here cowgirl from takin the reins and ordering one anyway. So when Chaim (my trusty st. ex bartender) asked me "what IS a DIRTY COKE?", well, the answer my precious ones, was eaZy.

MY CHERISHED DRINK OF ALL TIME CAN NOW BE YOURS, TOO!

*thee* DIRTY COKE
JIM BEAM (lots)
COKE (little)
no ice (see below)
lime (squeeze it if you got it)
and a straw (I have sensitive teeth)

and there you go.

the dirty coke.
now, you can order a Dirty Coke, or if you're a real bad ass mo fo', you can order a DC. get it?
or a DC Rocks, should you care for a bit of ice.

*I did have trouble with this in Baltimore, however, I will say that after an initial brush with a 13 year veteran bartendress who proclaimed "YOU CAN'T GO MAKING UP DRINKS AND SHIT, I"VE BEEN POURIN DRINKS FOR MY ADULT LIFE AND DIRTY TO ME MEANS OLIVE JUICE." Well, I eventually won her over (trust you me) but if you run into this situtation, and I did, simply tell them, "HEY, what's dirty to you, is dirty to me. Throw Olive Juice in that junk and call it a Dirty Coke, Ottobar Upstairs style."

I'm willing to bend over backwards for my beverages. seriously.

washington post style invitational

similar to the "mensa" competition, this week's challenege is to take a word or phrase starting with a letter between e and h, change it by one letter and create a new definition.

there must be a way to submit the blog motto of "F.I.Y." right? right??

2007: F.I.Y.

If 2006 was the year of Do-It-Yourself, then 2007 is raising the ante.

Neema making this blog, giving us hipsters a little rest from checking our inboxes every 2 seconds and bringing together concert-goers, bargain-finders and food-eaters everywhere? Oh yeah, she fucked it herself.

When we went to no less than 5 parties on New Years Eve, getting quite high along the way and causing general mayhem? Oh yeah, we fucked it ourselves.

That time I got really drunk and got 3 hours of sleep before a 15-hour day at work coordinating the most important event I'd been given so far? Oh yeah, I fucked it myself.

The moral of the story: don't let anyone else fuck it for you. FUCK-IT-YOURSELF.

v. to fuck it yourself - to do; to make; to cause; to thwart; to consume large amounts of alcohol on a school night; to create; to elect George W. Bush.