Joshua Thorin Messer

So Renee and I have flown to Phoenix to catch a couple of Tom Waits shows. How casual that sounds, but I’ve been trying to catch this most elusive specimen for over 18 years. Admittedly it hasn’t exactly been my life quest. I wasn’t willing to lose jobs or go bankrupt as a younger man in order to fly somewhere and see a show. But now it’s going to finally happen and my sense of dreamlike unreality over the entire episode is not being helped by the 115 in the shade boiling my brain. Dry heat my ass, it’s like being popped in the convection oven until I come up to temperature. Once I hit 130 internal, I’ll be a nice Mid Rare for Mr. Waits at table 6.