From Devin Fitzgerald to Tyler Harris, it's season's greetings

He's closing in on 2 and already this baby boy appears to be a football fan. It is probably the genes.

Got my hands on the Christmas cards that Angela Nazario of Arizona sent out this year with photos of her and baby boy Devin. Devin's dad is Larry Fitzgerald Jr., a Minnesotan and wide receiver for the Cardinals. Devin is no stranger to the media because his dad continues to be a NFL sensation. There's always a camera following Fitz-gerald around, and dad's usually carrying his baby boy. There's a current photo of Devin and his daddy on Fitz's Twitter.com account.

Greetings from the beat Two of my favorite cops sent a charming Happy Holidays e-card of them at work.

I requested a hard copy, and officers Mike Kirchen and Mark Klukow came over to deliver it. Working as school resource officers at Lucy Laney and Southwest High School, respectively, you can see the work that inspired their card at www.bikecopsforkids.blog spot.com.

"We went out last summer and handed out over 360 free bike helmets to kids in north Minneapolis," Kirchen said. "To the kids that we found later in the summer being safe wearing the helmets on their skateboard or on their older bikes, [we gave] brand-new free bikes. We gave out 31 brand-new free bikes to kids. ... Our supervisors in the department let us run with this project. It was a fun way to make a connection with a lot of the kids who really didn't do a whole lot during the summer but hang out in front of their houses. We made up little Christmas cards for businesses that helped us along the way. Just today we were down at [attorney] Mike Ciresi's office. Ciresi Foundation is the one that funded this project for us, a sizable grant. The brass and all the people in the Police Department want us to do it again next summer, so we are going to make it a little bigger."

Kirchen and Klukow are protecting and serving, not cruising around looking for excuses to bust heads. "I worked in the mayor's office for seven years," Kirchen said. "I took a lot of phone calls, I heard different stories about what cops did and didn't do, and I just got sick of hearing those stories. Mark and I just try to go out there every day and [make connections]."

There was a degree of difficulty in getting the photo of them riding bicycles in the snow. "We definitely don't bike in the winter, but we wanted to get some photos," Kirchen said.

Todd Walker's 2009 "Naughty & Nice" card with Joan Rivers looks gauzy but it's just out of focus. Too out of focus to share. "I would have to say a little bit of a blurred picture helps me out as much as it's helping Joan out," Walker said. "You don't have to use as much Botox if it's blurred." His explanation: "It was six in the morning and she said, 'Back up with that camera and don't shoot me below my breasts.' She was not interested in a lot of photos at six in the morning. She was delightful, I thought, didn't you?" Yep, she was great during her MOA visit.

KG's fan club Tyler Harris can look his dad, Jimmy Jam, in the eyes now. Wow!

Jimmy Jam and Lisa Harris' first born looks right at home on the Boston Celtics hardwood wearing a shirt that reads "FEAR THE SHAMROCK." I was going to say that Uncle Kevin set up this photo op, but because it looks like the Harris family, including Max and Bella, have front-row seats to the Celtics games, I'm sure they could arrange this on their own. As you may remember, Jimmy Jam had front-row seats to the Wolves games when Kevin Garnett, husband of Lisa's sister, Brandi, played here.

A pert post "Have a tasteful holiday," reads a card from Dan Matthews, my pal at PETA, who wrote on the card, "We sure won't."

Matthews is photographed in Portsmouth, Va., with Perry Lawrence and her cat Daisy near a banner of a gingerbread man that reads "Bite Me."

It was funnier before my editors decided I needed to make it shorter, which meant that I had to sing faster. Hold remarks advising me not to quit my day job. I KNOW I can't sing. Hate to bust related stereotypes, but I can't dance, either although I can keep a beat. The cat burglar-like gloves are appropriate considering the vocal crime executed.

Consider it a lump of coal for your ears. Watch it after drinking alcohol (but remember not to drink and drive).

This would have been so much better had Shaun LaBelle run my voice through a few hundred recording studio filters. But LaBelle's not speaking to me right now, probably because he didn't think Tuesday's item was funny. Well, he is high-maintenance. And far as I know I am still (and honored to be so) the emcee of his Jan. 3 and 4 shows at the Dakota.

Oh yeah, I'm very pleased that my colleagues didn't get their wish for a "making of" video of my antics.