NBC is Run by a Bunch of Talkin’ Monkeys. Like Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.”  Never has this been truer than in the case of the evolving NBC late night debacle.  Just […]

Recently, Myndi, EJ, and Don got into an e-mail discussion about NBC.  Most of our favorite shows are on the network, yet they’re regularly in fourth place, and they have a history of making baffling programming decisions.  What follows is a transcript of the discussion, highlighting problems, suggesting solutions, and […]

This week, we’ve looked at the first two phases of Tom Waits’ musical career, so that brings us to the third, current phase. For me, it’s harder to characterize his current work, but it’s here that the local public radio station started putting his albums in the “folk” category. It’s […]

We’ve talked a lot about Tom Waits’ music this week, but we haven’t gotten into Tom’s acting career. He’s done some movie acting on the side, and as you might expect, he’s gotten some pretty interesting roles. In fact, he plays the devil in Terry Gilliam’s upcoming The Imaginarium of […]

Tom Waits week continues right here with a look at the second phase of his career. When last we left him, he was on the verge of a breakthrough in his sound. He changed record labels and he stopped writing songs that he could play in bar gigs. Up to […]

In observance of Tom Waits Week, spunkybean is pleased to reprint this concert review that originally ran on August 7, 2008.  EJ went to the Columbus stop on Tom’s Glitter and Doom tour, recently immortalized in a new concert album. I don’t really understand concert reviews. Reviewing something that happened […]