I grew up listening to old "Tom Lehrer":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer records that belonged to my parents. He was a mathematician, musician, comedian and political satarist. He wrote for the Electric Company (Silent E, N-apostrophy-T) and for grownups (The Masochismn Tango, Lobachevsky, and one of my all time favorites, I'm Spending Hanukka in Santa Monica). I loved the puns, wit, ...
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{play the red button -best song I can think of for this day- and take a deeeeeep breath}Chapter I, Vintage ValentineVery early in high school, a boy gives me a red teddy bear. I throw it at him, and run.Right before college, my boyfriend at the time gives me a bouquet of red roses with some hearts in it. I walk out of his apartment.2007, Valentine's day on MOG. I post Spacehog's At Least I Got ...
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http://www.openscience.org/blog/?p=108(Link to 1997 Tom Lehrer videos! Yet another Google! search discovery.)Harvard's greatest singing professor has been kidnapped by Dr. Demento! He's been forced to sing about The Christmas That Must Be Endured. (Definitely not the "sweetness and light" kind, though paradoxically, the song will put you in a "sweet & light" mood!)
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Sometimes, when I'm enjoying the cultural fruits of the day (whether green, ripe, or over-ripe), I have to wonder what will really last (whether cool, critically-acclaimed, or just plain popular) - and what will fade away. I'm a little torn about the rediscovery of great artists who were previously lost to obscurity. It was wonderful that British folk-jazz singer-songwriter-musician Nick Drake,...
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You might want to look back at my original post about the recent case ordering all Bratz! dolls pulled from the market, and my followup to it...Australian Court Rules Simpsons Cartoon "Child Pornography"In what today's (Monday) Sydney Morning Herald described as a "landmark finding," an Australian Supreme Court judge has ruled that a cartoon in which child characters looking like Bart, Lisa and...
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Way Way back when, *Tom Lehrer* wrote a song called The Old Dope Peddler, which, after saying that the titular characterGives the kids free samples,Because he knows full wellThat today's young innocent facesWill be tomorrow's clientele..."More >
I love Tom Lehrer. Found some videos on YouTube. There isn't one of him doing "The Vatican Rag" or "Poisoning Pigeons In the Park" but these are good.So Long, Mom (A Song For WWIII)National Brotherhood WeekWernher von BraunPollution
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Hearing a news report this morning on the pope's visit to New York put this song in my head, and it's been mirthfully rolling around since.You know Tom Lehrer, right? Humorist, writer of satirical/topical songs in the '60s, contributor to the TV show That Was the Week That Was, mathematician (he taught at MIT). Among his several recordings is the live 1965 LP That Was the Year That Was. Emscee ...
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"We Will All Go Together When We Go" by Tom Lehrer We will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by. There will be no more misery When the world is our rotisserie. Yes, we will all fry together when we fry… And we'll all bake together when we bake, They'll be nobody present at the wake. With complete participation In that grand inciner.
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Because it's Hannukkah. And because you've never really lived until you've heard someone rhyme "Yom Kippur" with "Mississippi".
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A live performance by hilarious satirist and singer Tom Lehrer. If you like funny songs and don't know him - go get his discs. Now.
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...and I've never been more relieved. Yay! Here's to the periodic table:
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Tom Lehrer is awesome. How many people in the world can claim authority on both music theatre and mathematics? Most of the music he is famous for was recorded in the late fifties and early sixties, some of it absurd and some of it as a social commentary, but mostly a mix of both.It’s so [...]
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