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Howard Stern—we hardly knew ye. Wait. We totally fucking knew ye. Still, I'll miss the ease of WYSPese (I appreciate you having me on so long ago, I don't even remember who we were dissing) never shared in the extraterrestrial world. We'll miss Tim Sabean at 'YSP, though we know he's running your Sirius channels, and Philly cats Captain Janks and Kenneth Keith Kallenbach. Sob. Friday, parting, sweet sorrow 'n' shit. … If it's not enough seeing Jerry Blavat on Channel 12 and the Kimmel (his Christmas party with Al Martino's coming Dec. 22), this rumor'll floor you: Is the Geator, just spied backstage at Broadway's Jersey Boys with De Niro and Pesci, getting ready to heat up WXPN-FM Saturday nights with a hard, rare rhythm 'n' blues show come January? Speaking of XPN, program director Bruce Warren had a loopy confab on the future of radio with Y100rocks.com/WKDU's Jim McGuinn and Prometheus' Hannah Sassaman last week at World Café Live. The future, along with being Blavat, may be TV. WCL is getting that venture (rumored in Icepack back in July) with Mark Cuban's HDNet off the ground in March: Onstage from World Café Live! For the first program, Dec. 17, Delilah Films' producer Stephanie Bennett captures Steve Forbert at the WCL where they'll be serving Tommy Gunn's American Barbecue. You can't get ribs on the radio, man. Not even satellite. … Lastly, WCL booker Karl Mullen goes to the dark side—the Trocadero—showing off wine paintings for Grace Park's BuyLocalPhilly "Trunkadero" Dec. 17, with Town Jewelrz, Wang Newton, Johnny Goodtimes and more tchotchke artisans than you can shake a wine sack at. … A Bawdy Girls Christmas with Carmen Martella III, Dec. 21 at Tom Hagen's? It's like an old Rankin/Bass holiday TV show. Count me in, Frosty. … According to a note from Alex Strang, whose Puppet Karaoke Super Secret Santa Slam is Dec. 15 at the Manhattan Room, we're gonna love new characters like Lozar the Identity-Theft-Prevention Monster. But he says that night'll be filmed for possible inclusion on Philly1.com ("Philadelphia's cool Internet TV station"). Is Harry Cook telling people that porn-paneled Wayne's World of his is a TV station? Siiiike. … Tired of protesting in the cold like Monday's anti-Bush rally outside his lunch at the Bellevue ($10,000, but the chicken was surprisingly zesty)? Get inside, deep inside baby, the Club Kama Sutra protest against the city and "CBSleaze" (so says CKS' e-notes) not JUST by boycotting all who advertise on CBS/KYW 3, but by becoming a co-plaintiff in the club's legal defense. THIS means outing yourself. I can't wait to see which of Philly's famous news/TV/legal types step up. Keep kink hope alive at

www.cksconnections.com; or tickle your blogspot at www.redheadcks.blogspot.com. …

Now that Songspot.org is offa Pontiac like a prom dress, Joey Mahoney (who books Abilene) plays Santa by throwing a Songspot party with "2006's most crucial funk-hop act," Simple & Supreem, at Bar Noir Dec. 17 in anticipation of his TLA festival Dec. 23. … WHOWHATWHERE: During his Hard Rock Cafe/Loews Hotel stop promoting his barbecue sauce, Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony told me—in response to my question, "Why hot sauce? Why not sausage or cereal?"—that he loves the hot stuff. "I love sausage, man. But hot sauce, it's nearly in my blood." That's when Anthony showed off a little devil tattoo on his forearm. Nothing about cereal, though. Athan "Executive Slacks" Maroulis' li'l bro, Constantine Maroulis, had little to say readying his NBC 10! appearance at Loews. Just kept sticking his tongue out—a weird big tongue. Ask the losing American Idol to show you that tongue (or ask about signing with Kelsey Grammer's company to develop a sitcom) when he hits Starland Ballroom, in Sayreville, N.J., Dec. 21. … The evil of all The Roots: While Dice Raw shows off rawk chops with his new band, The Disease, at The Five Spot Dec. 15 with Phil Moore Brown, expect drummer ?uestlove (who surprised Fiona Apple by playing drums behind her at the Tower last Friday) to spin his due-soon slow-jam Babies Makin' Babies 2 at Squarebiz' Candyland Christmas Eve spectacular at Fluid. … Brittany Lynn opens in La Cage Aux Folles at Plays & Players Dec. 16. A drag queen comic in a draq queen comic musical? That's oxymoronic, innit? Not so oxy-anything, her single with Shampoo DJ Guido Osario "Don't Wanna Go Home." … If going into the recesses of your drunken excesses celebrating the

25th anniversary of 11th and Walnut's

Irish Pub Dec. 19 isn't enough to bring out holiday cheer, find these birthday-scenie babies, kiss them hard and tell them you're Irish: TLA's Jay Medley; DJ Dr. Octo-"rock-'em-sock-'em"-pussy; Bar Noir's Michelle Walser; ad promotrix Nicole Cashman; elder statesmen George Manney, Randy Alexander and Barry Gutman; Ben Morgan (who'll party at Millcreek Dec. 15 with Stinking Lizaveta); and my mom, Eda, who, if she's hangin' with Stinking Liz and not me, I'll be pissed. And T.O. : We're sorry the b-day party you threw yourself at 40/40 in A.C. got too few of your invited celeb buddies. Hey, your mom made the drive.