Air travel and karaoke. They go together like, um, like — well, we’re not exactly sure.

No matter. Karaoke has landed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, just in time for the holiday season. Now you can clear security, step up to the microphone and belt out your travel frustrations by singing the Beatles’ Nowhere Man or Help! Or, if you’re not such a Grinch, you can croon Home for the Holidays or Sentimental Journey.

For the first time, the Houston Airport System is adding karaoke to its menu of holiday music entertainment. The first session is this afternoon, behind security between Terminals D and E.

For the past two years, aviation officials have invited choirs and bands from local high schools and churches to perform at Bush and Hobby airports during December.

But the karaoke booths will be a new experiment, said Caroline Schneider, assistant airport manager for customer service.

“During the holidays we have a lot of our novice travelers,” such as large families and older couples, Schneider said. “We thought while they are waiting, they can just sing a song.”

Aspiring vocalists can choose from hundreds of song titles, Schneider said. Small prizes will be given to the singers.

What a great idea! After a pleasant cavity search by the TSA, you find you’ve been bumped from your flight or its been delayed, what better way to kill some time than listening to amateurs sing top 40 songs….badly. Life just doesn’t get any better than this. They should extend this idea into in-flight entertainment.

Leeroy Le Gallais, 46, broke into the animal’s stable on two separate occasions to perform sex acts on the terrified animal. During his first attack he used a bucket to stand behind the horse, called Calico, but was caught after leaving his underwear at the scene. He was given a three-year probation order, but just months later returned to have sex with the same horse at the Castel Stable in Guernsey. On the night of the second attack, on April 25 this year, Calico’s owner Michael Wortley checked on the animal in his stable at 6.30pm.

The 20-year-old bay gelding was covered with a blanket but when Mr Wortley returned in the morning the blanket was on the floor. A mounting stool that was left outside the stable had been taken inside and police immediately suspected Le Gallais was responsible. After the second attack Calico was seen ‘box walking’, or moving sideways, a common sign of stress.

Le Gallais, of St Peter Port, Guernsey, was jailed for three years at Guernsey’s Royal Court after admitting having sex with the animal. He told the court: “I had a few beers, I went to the stable and interfered with the horse.” Le Gallais said his second attack came after he ate in a restaurant and drank a few glasses of red wine before visiting a bar. He had intended to go home but ended up at the stable where he ‘played around’ with the horse.

Fortunately (for the horse), he was hung like a human.