Wake-up guy Paul Ogata is leaving 102.7 Da Bomb. But for now, you can hear his annual year-end wrap-up in verse — done with pidgin aplomb.

Try listen, make you laugh when you drive. ("Was da night befo' Crees-mess, and everything was all quiet. Was more silent than the silver guy in front of the Hyatt.") Radio broken? It's on www.paulogata.com/xmas.html.

Ogata, who moves to the Mainland next month, signs off from Da Bomb on Dec. 30.

— Wayne Harada

SANTA, TUTU MELE ARE SWINGIN' WITH THE KEIKI

Here's one more thing to hang on your decked-out pine. Shaka Santa designer Owen Ho has created this ornament for the Friends of Honolulu City Lights, the sixth one in a series.

The 2005 version features Santa and Tutu Mele dancing with the keiki. Available at all Macy's O'ahu stores, Borders Books and Music at Ward Centre and Waikele and the Honolulu City Store at Ala Moana Center, $14. Or you can order by mail for $19. Send a check, made payable to the Friends of Honolulu, to: P.O. Box 8877, Honolulu, HI 96830.

— Advertiser staff

FINAL WORDS

"You can't turn on television without someone making fun of it. Jokes like, 'Who's he going to fight, Alan Alda?' Or, 'Who's he going to fight, an HMO?' It's very easy to be cynical."

Joe Roth | head of Revolution Studios, which is producing a new "Rocky" movie, in the Los Angeles Times