Three things that have recently given me pleasure: a nice quotation from Tom Waits; a headline with the monster compound Alaska drag queen theft suspect; and the brief but still entertaining compound poultry magnate. 1. Breaking open a song. Sasha Frere-Jones, “Gravel Pit: The voice and times of Tom Waits”, New Yorker 10/31/11: Waits is big … Continue reading Odds and ends