Tom Ponton doesn't like being called a parrothead, as fans of Jimmy Buffett are known, because it makes him sound like someone who dresses like a cheeseburger - in paradise, get it? - for the singer's concerts.
Still, it beats being called a cicadahead, which could happen after the airing of a radio show that he and pal Pat O'Leary put together for Buffett's Internet station, Radio Margaritaville.
Click on www.radiomargarita ville.com at 9 a.m. tomorrow when he and O'Leary offer music and comedy about cicadas.
You'll hear songs like Bob Dylan's "Day of the Locusts," written in 1970 - two cicada cycles ago.
The only connection to The Man himself that Ponton could find: Buffett's "Don't Bug Me."
Send your own cicada musings to Cicada Buzz, c/o Features Dept., The Baltimore Sun, 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD, 21278; or by e-mail to sun.features@ baltsun.com, subject line Cicada Buzz.
Still, it beats being called a cicadahead, which could happen after the airing of a radio show that he and pal Pat O'Leary put together for Buffett's Internet station, Radio Margaritaville.
Click on www.radiomargarita ville.com at 9 a.m. tomorrow when he and O'Leary offer music and comedy about cicadas.
You'll hear songs like Bob Dylan's "Day of the Locusts," written in 1970 - two cicada cycles ago.
The only connection to The Man himself that Ponton could find: Buffett's "Don't Bug Me."
Send your own cicada musings to Cicada Buzz, c/o Features Dept., The Baltimore Sun, 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD, 21278; or by e-mail to sun.features@ baltsun.com, subject line Cicada Buzz.
