TODD RUNDGREN: Veg-O-Matic Into The Void

I would much prefer Todd Rundgren had a squirrely girlfriend—you know, one of those emaciated things that is always curled up cross-legged with her bespectacled nose in a book—than this show biz creation Entering and Exiting grandly with the bazoombas ever so thinly veiled beneath white crepe pajamas. Though it's nearly midnight, Todd himself is squirreling about in the backyard visiting his saplings and his would-be saplings, his corn, tomatoes, and cauliflower, his eggplants—which, he points out with the flashlight, are finally developing that all-important second layer of leaves that is their natural protection against the Nasty Eggplant Bugs.