Ole’ Crappy Ass has promised to be back to his usual spunky self (ha!) to kick the January contest off with the live show at 2 p.m. on January 14.

Here are a few other Hossey Award Finals tidbits that you might be interested in:

1. The 52 songs are our Top 5 finishers from each of our monthly contests in 2010. If you’re a mathematician, you might wonder why we don’t have 55 songs. Well… here’s the deal. Due to technical problems with the move to our new studio, we didn’t have a dang contest in October. So that should leave us with 50 finalists, right? Well, we had ties for 5th place in two months of 2010. So that means we had to put 2 extra songs in the dang finals.

2. As is our tradition, we’ll eliminate some low vote-getters during our live show each Saturday. We’ll knock out the bottom 10 during our Dec. 11 show, and the bottom 20 on our Dec. 18 show. Never fear, all songs that get eliminated will still be played all month long on the automated version of the dang show (which airs on Tuesday, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturday mornings), and they will very likely make their way back to the station in other ways in future months.

3. Interview Week for The Finals will be on Dec. 18. We’ll invite every band in the Top 10 to be on that show to shoot the bull with us for a little while. And, because Interview Week is always a fun and popular show, it works out perfectly that we’ll be repeating that show on Christmas Day. (That’s mostly because we don’t want anyone involved with our silly ole’ station to forsake their families and friends on Christmas Day because of this dang show).

4. Our crazy New Year’s Day show has proven to be fun and popular for the last two years, and so it may not be wise to change something that’s working well. But we’re going to change something anyway: Instead of cutting the voting off BEFORE the New Year’s Day show starts, we’re going to keep the voting going all through the show. We’re not exactly sure when the voting will end, but it’ll be sometime around 6 p.m. Central Time. We will give a “last call” for voting approximately 5 minutes before we cut off the votes and name our dang winner for 2010.

5. All songs in the Top 10 for 2010 will end up getting plenty of more airplay on the show throughout 2011. So, just because your favorite song doesn’t get the glory of being named the Song of the Year, doesn’t give you any dang right to bitch.

6. During the New Year’s Day Show Hoss will name his choice(s) for the 2010 “Commenter of the Year” award. The prize for this dang award is one of Hoss’s hand-crocheted afghans. So that means Hoss will have to tell his story about how he came to be a male crocheter (and proud of it) at least once during the month.

7. We’re anticipating a LOT of interest in the live shows for December, and we’ll be buying extra band-width for our stream in order to accommodate the larger audiences. But there’s a good chance that we’ll still not have enough band-width at some points in the month. If you get locked out of a live show for a while, please accept our apologies, and PLEASE try again in a few minutes, and please remember that every live show will be recorded and replay multiple times throughout the month. Also, all interviews will be available for download within a week or so of when they originally air.

8. If you have fun with the dang 2010 Finals, please stay with us throughout 2011. We’ll get right back to action with the start of next year’s contest on January 8. (And we’ve got a lot of new stuff coming to the station in 2011, too.)

9. Because we believe in offering the utmost of support to the bands we play, HossTheBoss.com offers all bands in The Finals the option of entering a different song in the December contest. If you notice that a song in The Finals is different from the one that we played originally on the show, well, that’s why, dang it.

Yes I know I said in a previous post that the October Hossey Music Award Song Voting Contest would start with a live show on Oct. 16, and, yes, I know that it’s Oct. 18 and we still have not started the dang contest. Well, the fact is, I’ve decided to just cancel the dang contest all together for October and start fresh with our last monthly contest of the year in November.(And then, of course, The 2010 Finals, begin in December.)

Thanks very much to everyone involved with this site (from musicians to my crew of unpaid helpers like Tony Kinsel to the thousands of fans/friends who come to the site each month) for the great deal of patience and loyalty you have shown over the past few weeks. As with everything else involving this little ole’ site, our move has proven to be much more complicated than I’d expected, and it’s been great knowing that we’re not necessarily losing legions of support for the site as a result.

There is absolutely no reason why we shouldn’t be completely ready to go by November 6, and, once we’re fully settled in to the new digs, we’ll be finally ready to start making good on all of the progress that I’ve been promising for this site for years.

See ya’ll on the “air” in about three weeks! And ya’ll all get ready for Leslie Craig as our November Guest DJ with me and Tony! It’s going to be yet another Fun Hoss Time.

But, being a huge American corporation, AT&T was not up to the task, and I cannot get through to anyone with a brain (or even a pulse) to try to get the resulting mess cleaned up.

Such is life. The best I can do is to assure you, dear HTBer, we won’t be using AT&T in the new studio.

But all this means that, for the next few days, the site’s “Now Playing” announcement will be assuring you falsely that the “Hossey Music Award Song Voting Contest Show” is airing. (That’s what was playing when the station went down.)

Nothing, in fact, will be playing on the station for a few more days. I’m not sure exactly when we’ll be running again, but it won’t be later than Oct. 15.

This means that The “September Hossey Music Award Song Voting Contest Show” will end without any fanfare on our live show. Everyone in the Top 5 in the voting at noon Central Time on Saturday, Sept. 25 will advance to our Finals, but we won’t be interviewing them and playing them up on the station as promised. (Don’t bother complaining to AT&T. I’m pretty convinced that no real humans actually work there. ) I’m really sorry for that! I’ll find a way to make it all up to the bands and their fans sometime before the end of the 2010.

And this also means that the start of our October contest will probably be delayed until the 2nd weekend of the month. That’s okay, though. Since October has 5 Saturdays, we’ll be able to get right back on track with our usual scheduled to head into November.

Thanks to everyone for their support and patience. Please remember that, while the station is out-of-commission, the site is working just fine. Your comments are certainly most welcome — unless you feel called to be a douche bag for some reason.  (And voting for September will stay open for a couple of more days after I’m writing this.)

Because of some technical problems related to the move to the new Hoss Home/Studio (and to AT&T’s incompetence, but I digress) I’ve canceled the live Hossey Music Award Song Voting Contest Show for Sept. 18. A replay of the Sept 11 show will run in it’s place.

As you may have heard, this was supposed to be “Interview Week” on the show, and we had several bands lined up to shoot the bull with us. Never fear, we’ll get to all of those interviews during the next live show, on Sept. 25 at the usual time, 2 p.m. Central.

We won’t be moved in to our new digs for at least another 3 weeks or so, but I’m fairly confident our future technical problems will be very minimal while we finish the move. It’s possible that we’ll have to air a repeat show one weekend during October, but, other than that, we should be okay unless some dang hurricane comes our way.

While you’re listening to the repeat of the Sept. 11 show, keep in mind that we’re in the final week of voting! We’ll be naming our Top 5 Finalists for September during the Sept. 25 show.