RSS BotMB to Hacker NewsEnglish · 22 days agoTom Lehrer, Musical Satirist with a Dark Streak, Dies at 97www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·22 days agoIf you’re reading this, you probably already know who he was. If you didn’t, he was Weird Al’s older, odder cousin. He wrote songs about poisoning pigeons in the park, nuclear war, and the always popular “Masochism Tango.”
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·22 days agoSomeone recently called him “the Bo Burnham of his day,” and it’s fucking amazing he might’ve lived to read that. I had no idea he was still kicking. Shame this is how I find out.
If you’re reading this, you probably already know who he was.
If you didn’t, he was Weird Al’s older, odder cousin. He wrote songs about poisoning pigeons in the park, nuclear war, and the always popular “Masochism Tango.”
Someone recently called him “the Bo Burnham of his day,” and it’s fucking amazing he might’ve lived to read that.
I had no idea he was still kicking. Shame this is how I find out.