What is that thing?

Saw this bird roaming on a roof while I was traveling down Route 1. Actually first spotted the bird while it was perched in a tree, which was an unexpectedly odd sight.

By the way, it's a turkey vulture (a.k.a turkey buzzard). For a kind of funny turkey vulture story, check out David Letterman's interview of Tom Waits.

Two of my favorite men over the age of 55

I ♥ these guys.

View David Letterman's interview of Tom Waits, 11/27/06
View Tom Waits' performance on the Late Show with David Letterman, 11/27/06

NPR's Song of the Day

Tom Waits is big in Japan... and in public radio apparently.

NPR's Song of the Day, 01.02.07: "Lie To Me," off of the new album, Orphans.

Listen to NPR's piece, "Tom Waits: The Whiskey Voice Returns" on All Things Considered, 11.21.06.
Listen to NPR's piece, "Tom Waits: Rock Classics, with a Gravelly Rasp" on World Cafe, 12.15.06.
Listen to NPR's piece, "Tom Waits Fights to Stay Out of Advertising" on All Things Considered, 05.06.05

Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis

Last month, Tom Waits released a new 3-disc collection entitled Orphans. I haven't heard it yet, but I believe I plan to make it my own. Listed below are some reviews that I've read of the album and they basically make me want to jump in feet-first. Thanks to DMK for pointing out that on this album Tom does a rendition of Disney's "Heigh Ho." If that doesn't have potential for multi-layered oh-so-wrongitude and oh-so-rightitude, I don't know what does.

Reviews of Orphans:
Boston Globe
Chicago Tribune
Harp
New York Times
Rolling Stone
South Coast Today

Harp's December 2006 Tom Waits article/interview

One of my favorite old stories of Tom's is listed at the very end of this
random yarn-spinning from Tom back in 1993. Here's to growing stronger and stranger every day.