And many more...

There aren't many celebrity birthdays I can be bothered to remember. There's Groucho's (October 2, 1890) and Humphrey Bogart's (December 25, 1899 -- though, as I recall it, the year is up for debate in certain corners).

Perhaps a handful of others.

But Tom Waits' birthday ought to be a damned national holiday -- and in my own little alternate universe, it is.

Happy 57th, Mr. Waits -- long may you wave.