An imaginary place in a reactionary time
Yucky Dog passed away this morning. He was old when Kenneth found him. He was old when Renae took him in. So his official age is old.
Yucky, Dog of the stooped shoulders.
Scourge of mop dogs and Chihuahuas.
Lover of snow.
Piner for the fjords.
Blood brother to Marvin, the paranoid android.
Sniffer of feet.
Door stop.
Possessor of the side long glance and dogish sigh.
Defender of Renae.
UPDATED: More info and links and a belated happy birthday…
In a lot of ways I’m the John Dvorak of social media. If I think a website is a bad idea, it invariably ends up being useful and/or a huge success. One case in point is YouTube. I really couldn’t see how a website devoted to short snippets of tv shows I never watched and bootleg music videos I never wanted to see in the first place was useful. Then I started randomly looking for things that interested me, Like F.M. Or like these 30-40 year old TV performances of Tom Lehrer (even then I had to trip over a link on Mark Evanier’s site to even think about looking for TL on YouTube- Thanks Mark!).
I got it from Agnes (1980, Michael Parkinson show in England-this song was an update of an old party song he did “I got it from Sally” included in the musical review TOMFOOLERY-he didn’t record it until the Rhino boxed set in 2000)
Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park.
Tom Lehrer’s work was featured on the American version of That Was The Week That Was, broadcast in the mid 60′s, and which I’m still searching for clips of. Bonus Autralian interview from 2003. Yes, he’s still alive, his 80th birthday was April 9th. No, he doesn’t perform anymore. Search you tube for even more Tom Lehrer.
(In response to all the email, here’s the performance he did for Irving Kaplansky’s 80th birthday celebration 11 years ago (all math songs, what do you expect from a mathematician’s birthday). The Onion AV Club interview, the SF Weekly interview and the Paul D. Lehrman interview.)
And you can still buy Tom on Amazon…
Once upon a time there was a Canadian power trio with Prog Rock tendencies. Nope, not that one with the Ayn Rand fixation, the one with the violin player. Ok, he tended to play more mandolin, and his name was Nash the Slash. The band was called F.M. and here they are playing the medley of their hit, live. I remember them using a live version for the single too, don’t think they ever released a studio version, but I could be wrong. Serious musicologists will note that Nash left the band and was replaced by violinist Ben Mink, who later went on to work with k.d. lang.
