Ugg Boot

I've gotta hurry, hurry, hurry,
it's almost Christmas and everything's blurry,
why is everything blurry you might ask,
maybe it was what came out of my flask,
maybe it was the alcohol I had to drink,
surely not, most of it came back up in the sink,
maybe it's my laziness by a warm fire,
that takes me even higher,
maybe it's the Christmas music that fills the air,
that takes away my every care,
the Christmas lights light up the night,
oh what a beautiful sight,
just one wish? snow on the ground
quick make snowballs all good and round,
at 10 on the dot we start the snowball fight,
where's Jereme? He's nowhere in sight,
I scan the snowy fields where can he be?
I hear something coming up behind me,
I turn to see a snowball hit me in the face,
with such force it knocked me into space,
for a second there was not a sound,
that is until I hit the ground,
I lay on the ground playing dead,
not moving a muscle, "are you alright?" he said,
the snowball in my right hand met his head,
I jumped up and away I sped,
laughing all the way, I ran and ran and ran,
look who's coming, it's Tommy and Stan,
strolling up the way they don't see,
someone is plotting a snowball spree,
Jereme and I wait to attack,
we have about 30 snowballs in a our stack,
at that instant Jereme let out a yell,
snowballs from every direction fell,
onto the helpless victims of our snowball fight,
we pound each other until it's almost night,
what am I doing? Daydreaming again,
I gotta hurry put down the Gin,
I'm deep in panic, I must say,
It's only 9 days until Christmas Day!!!

A Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken, drugged fight then cooked the man's body in tomato and onion sauce and ate it over three days.

The family of a man who died in a car crash a few years after stealing the bell of an Orthodox church in southern Albania has returned the bell saying the theft doomed the robber.

A routine traffic stop turned into a drug bust when Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers found 610 pounds of marijuana stashed in four coffins.

Security screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport lost a bag containing fake explosives used to test the airport's bomb-detection system.

A former volunteer firefighter is facing charges that he made a series of false 911 calls so he could watch fire engines race toward fabricated emergencies.

A truck carrying 12 million honeybees hit a wall on a highway ramp, dumping its load across the pavement shortly before the evening rush hour.

This week in music history:

1944, a plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller vanishes over the English Channel ... the fate of the aircraft and its passengers remains a mystery...

1955, Carl Perkins writes "Blue Suede Shoes" and records the song less than 48 hours later ... Elvis covers the tune later that year...

1957, Elvis gets his draft notice...

1960, German authorities deport 17-year-old George Harrison as he's too young to perform with the Beatles in the raucous Hamburg nightclubs that hosted the band in its early days ... Elvis Presley is inducted into the Los Angeles Indian Tribal Council ... the ceremony coincides with the opening of his movie Flaming Star in which the rocker plays a half-breed...

1961, EMI passes on the Beatles ... the British label has second thoughts later on and signs the lads from Liverpool...

1967, The Beach Boys are given transcendental meditation instruction by the guru to the Beatles, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi...

1969, The Supremes log their final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show ... the trio sings "Someday We'll Be Together" as their TV swan song...

1977, The Sex Pistols are denied U.S. visas two days before the band is to appear on Saturday Night Live...

1988, James Brown draws a prison sentence of six years for fleeing cops during an interstate car chase ... he is paroled in February 1991...

1996, crooner Tony Bennett has just arrived at the White House for a holiday dinner with the Clintons when he suffers an erupted hernia and is rushed to a hospital where he undergoes emergency surgery...

1997, activists including Gloria Steinem and Eleanor Smeal protest in front of the Time Warner building in New York ... they are objecting to the Prodigy song, "Smack My Bitch Up"...

1998, a court finds that songwriter Andrew Lloyd Webber did not plagiarize a liturgical writer's song in composing the theme for his smash musical The Phantom of the Opera...

1998, two of Charlie Daniels' backup players demonstrate extraordinary work ethics when they schedule surgeries to coincide with their boss's appointment for knee surgery ... all three go under the knife on the same day in the same hospital in order to minimize show cancellations ... bassist Jerry Charlie Hayward has a tonsillectomy while drummer Jack Gavin has shoulder surgery...

1999, in announcing that he'll run for mayor of London, former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren enumerates the novel planks of his political platform: legalize boozing in public libraries, legalize pot, legalize all-night pubs, and last but not least, install brothels outside the houses of Parliament ... he drops out of the race a couple of months later...

1999, former singing cowboy Rex Allen is killed when his caregiver accidentally runs him over in the driveway of his Tucson home...

1999, Goo Goo Dolls nearly bite the big one when the military transport they're flying in skids off a runway in Sicily damaging its landing gear and wing, obliging the Goo Goos to beat a hasty retreat via an emergency chute...

2000, the British music journal Melody Maker prints its final issue after continuous publication since 1926...

2003, Michael Jackson is charged with seven counts of child molestation and two counts of supplying a child with "an intoxicating agent" ... his lawyer denounces the charges claiming they were motivated by money and revenge...

and that was the week that was.

Arrivals

December 15: guitarist Oscar Moore of the Nat "King" Cole Trio (1912), DJ Alan Freed (1922), country singer-songwriter Ernie Ashworth (1928), Cindy Birdsong of The Supremes (1939), Dave Clark of the Dave Clark 5 (1942), Carmen Appice of Vanilla Fudge (1946), Paul Simonon of The Clash (1955)

December 16: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770), Tony Hicks of The Hollies (1943), John Abercrombie (1944), Benny Andersson of ABBA (1946), ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons (1950), guitarist Robben Ford (1951), Christopher Thorn of Blind Melon (1968), Michael McCary of Boyz II Men (1971)

December 17: Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler (1894), Tommy Steele (1936), Art Neville (1938), Eddie Kendricks of The Temptations (1939), Paul Butterfield (1942), Bad Company's Paul Rodgers (1949), Carlton Barrett of The Wailers (1950), Mike Mills of R.E.M. (1956), Bob Stinson of The Replacements (1959), Sarah Dallin of Bananarama (1961), Craig "DJ Homicide" Bullock of Sugar Ray (1972)

December 18: bandleader Fletcher Henderson (1897), Hendrix manager Chas Chandler (1938), Keith Richards (1943), Elliot Easton of The Cars (1953), DMX (1970), DJ Lethal of Limp Bizkit (1972), Christina Aguilera (1980)

December 19: Edith Piaf (1915), Professor Longhair AKA Henry Roeland (Roy) Byrd (1918), activist/folky Phil Ochs (1940), Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White (1941), Alvin Lee (1944), The Lovin' Spoonful's Zal Yanofsky (1944), John McEuen of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1945), Doug Johnson of Loverboy (1957), Kajagoogoo's Limahl (1958), Kevin Shepard of Zoo Story (1968)

December 20: Blood, Sweat and Tears' Bobby Colomby (1944), Peter Criss of Kiss (1947), The Easybeats' Stevie Wright (1948), Billy Bragg (1957), Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes (1966), JoJo (1990)

December 21: Frank Zappa (1940), Albert Lee (1943), Beach Boy Carl Wilson (1946), The Rumour's Martin Belmont (1948), cleanup woman Betty Wright (1953), Gabriel Glaser of Luscious Jackson (1965), Brett Scallions of Fuel (1971)

Departures

December 15: Glenn Miller (1944), Fats Waller (1943)

December 16: country singer Gary Stewart (2003), Stuart Adamson of Big Country (2001), Nicolette Larson (1997)

December 17: soul singer Rufus Thomas (2001), opera diva Martha Moedl (2001), rock singer Bianca Halstead (2001), saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. (1999), producer Andy Wiswell (1999), singing cowboy Rex Allen Sr. (1999), Irish singer Ruby Murray (1996), Theodore "Hound Dog" Taylor (1975)

December 18: English singer-songwriter Clifford T. Ward (2001), singer Kirsty MacColl (2000), reggae singer and Marley mentor Joe Higgs (1999), master luthier Antonio Stradivari (1737)

December 19: Roebuck "Pop" Staples (2000), jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton (2000), 10,000 Maniacs guitarist Robert Buck (2000), Sony founder Masaru Ibuka (1997), Muddy Waters sideman Jimmy Rogers (1997), The Byrds' Michael Clarke (1993)

December 20: Spanish singer Carlos Cano (2000), Hank Snow (1999), Bobby Darin (1973)

December 21: trumpeter Johnny Coles (1997), Albert King (1992)