I Planned Each Charted Course..

Ugg Boot

Bearded Lady Caught. Well, that's a relief.

Bill Gates Gets 4 Million E-Mails a Day. Talk about a full inbox.

A Canadian Football League player whose home was pelted with eggs and cow manure after his missed kick cost his team a spot in the league final has since been overwhelmed by flowers from sympathetic fans. Awww. That's so sweet. I , sniff sniff, think I'm gonna cry..sniff sniff.

Swiss youths smoke most dope in Europe. hahahaha Far out. Dude pass the chips. I got the munchies.

Norway Letter Arrives 54 Years Later. I hope it wasn't a paycheck or income tax refund check. Would that suck?

Beer Offered for Return of Nativity Statue. Which statue was stolen? Jesus Christ!!!!

Man Allegedly Fakes Break-In to Hock Ring. Sounds plausible. What's the problem?

Pa. Man Convicted in Car-Spraying Case. Psycho. Must read this one.

Reporter Convicted for Protecting Source. Read this one. By revealing his source, the source will lose his job or worse, and the reporter will receive no information from him. No one will trust this reporter. This reporter is looking at 6 months in jail for keeping his source confidential. I looks to me like mr. judge man is trying to help a friend out. What do you think?

This Week in Music History:

1889, the first jukebox debuts at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco...

1955, RCA Victor pens the deal of the century, signing Elvis Presley away from Sun Records for $40,000...

1956, Fats Domino appears on the Ed Sullivan Show performing his hit, "Blueberry Hill"...

1957, a Chicago chapter of the Elvis Presley Fan Club pickets radio station WCFL for banning Elvis records from the air ... the station ignores them and sticks to its ban ...

1959, Alan Freed won't say he never accepted payola and is canned from WABC television in New York for refusing to tell a lie...

1960, it's a big week for Ray Charles who has four songs in the Hot 100: "Georgia On My Mind," "Ruby," "Hard Hearted Hannah," and "Come Rain or Come Shine"...

1961, the country's twist fever has inspired a number of movie companies to sign up twist artists for twist movies ... Chubby Checker inks with a British-American film company ... Joey Dee & the Starlighters are tapped by Paramount for Hey, Let's Twist, and Dion is signed to star in a Columbia film Twist Around the Clock ... all are hoping to cash in on what has become an international craze...

1966, Spinout premiers ... it is Elvis Presley's 22nd film and just like all the others, makes some money but fails to enhance The King's reputation as a fine actor...

1968, The Jimi Hendrix Experience ... Electric Ladyland goes gold this week, the band's third gold album in a row...

1970, Jerry Lee Lewis and Myra Brown call it splitsville in Memphis ... the marriage had stirred some controversy because they are cousins and she was fourteen when they married ... according to the former Mrs. Lewis, the marriage "had become a nightmare"...

1971, B.B. King celebrates his 25th year of playing the blues, marking the occasion with a concert in London, the start of a European tour...

1978, Linda Ronstadt's anthology A Retrospective goes gold this week ... it is her eighth album to reach gold status...

1981, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood realize a dream when they jam with blues giants Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy at Chicago's Checkerboard Lounge ... it was Waters' "Rollin' Stone" that inspired the band's name...

1987, U2 opens for U2 at a Los Angeles concert, performing as a country-rock band, The Dalton Brothers...

1988, Phil Collins makes his screen debut in a starring role when the film Buster opens this week ... his first screen appearance was as an extra in A Hard Day's Night...

1990, David Crosby crashes his motorcycle breaking his leg, ankle, and shoulder ... he apparently was speeding and wore no helmet...

1990, Paul McCartney's birth certificate is sold at auction ... it fetches $18,000...

1995, The Rolling Stones become the first band to broadcast a concert via the Internet ... The Beatles release Beatles Anthology I and set a first-day sales record, moving 450,000 albums ... Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day earns his rock credentials by lowering his trousers on stage in Milwaukee ... the stunt gets him arrested and eventually fined $141...

2001, Britney Spears performs for her first TV concert, "Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas" on ABC...

Birthdays:
Sir William Gilbert of the Gilbert and Sullivan writing team (1836)
Eugene Ormandy (1899)
Imogene Coca (1908)
Hank Ballard (1927)
Herman Rarebell of The Scorpions (1949)
Graham Parker (1950)
John McFee of The Doobie Brothers (1953)
Michael Ramos of The BoDeans (1958)
Kim Wilde (1960), Kirk Hammett (1962)
Duncan Sheik (1969)

Deaths:
Doug Sahm (1999)
Cab Calloway (1994)
Tom Evans of Badfinger (1983)
Danny Whitten of Crazy Horse (1972)
Little Junior Parker (1971)