G minus 8 hours 40 minutes and counting: All traveling filkers, please check in

Due to the snow and ice here, Delta Air Lines and AirTran Airways are both reporting cancellations of flights to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, so any of you who were planning to come down for GAFilk today and have lost your ride, please post here so we know you're okay. If you don't know the status of your flight, I advise you to contact your airline and check before leaving home.

Also, highways and streets here are clogged with accidents due to the snow turning to ice overnight—multi-car pileups, in some cases. The state department of transportation is advising folks not to be on the road unless they absolutely must. Therefore, if you're driving down (or not any longer), we need to hear from you, too. Thanks and see you soon...I hope.

Happy diamond birthday to the King of Rock & Roll...and rest in peace

Today would have been Elvis Aaron Presley's 75th birthday, but for the enlarged heart and predilection toward Rx-drug abuse that combined to take him from us far too soon at his Memphis home in 1977, at the age of 42. Tributes and celebrations of all sorts are planned today and all year long by the Presley Estate and others, at his Graceland mansion and around the country. Even Cirque du Soleil is getting into the act with a special Elvis-themed show.

What's your favorite song, movie or performance by the man widely regarded as the single most consequential musical artist of modern times (with the possible exception of the now also late Michael Jackson)? Me being the demented musical soul I am, I'd have to go with his little-known "laughing version" of "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", in which Elvis guffaws and giggles his way through what's supposed to be a tender ballad of longing and even sings a parody lyric or two ("Do you gaze at your bald head and wish you had hair?"). Dr. Demento plays it on his show now and again, most often on the August 16th anniversary of Elvis' death.