NELLIE VA-NELLIE? When I wrote about Nellie McKay on May 19 (seems like yesterday), I considered mentioning her age. I'm glad I didn't.

You see, McKay's bio at the Sony website describes her as "a multi-talented 'youngster' of 19." McKay's own website calls her a "19-year-old." But, as Anne Neville and researcher David Valenzuela reveal in the Buffalo News, McKay is actually 22 years old!

Nellie, Nellie, Nellie. What will we discover next? That you color your hair? That you didn't write your music all by yourself? That the last syllable of your last name is actually pronounced like "day," not "dye"?

Maybe it's all due to typos. Maybe Sony meant to describe you not as a multi-talented "youngster" of 19 but as a multi-talented youngster of "19." And so forth.

Nellie, if you promise to be live an honest showbiz life from now on, you can still be part of Bushapalooza. [See September 2.] Deal?