I will never understand why Tom Lehrer is not a massive thing on tumblr.

foxnewsfuckfest:

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janothar:

animatedamerican:

17-is-lucky:

animatedamerican:

sci-fantasy:

lauraannegilman:

thecrackintheteacup:

For anyone who doesn’t know, Tom Lehrer was a Harvard mathematics lecturer who did musical satire in his spare time during the 50s and 60s.

He’s basically a lyrical genius: ridiculously clever and funny and awesome.

His songs cover pretty much every topic imaginable as well, from the political (the atomic bomb and world war three) to social issues (tolerance, drugs, homosexuality and religion) to environental issues (pollution and animal welfare) to the macabre and the kinky (masochism, necrophilia and dirty novels). And all in a tongue-in-cheek, amazingly still relevant way.

Tom Lehrer fandom, where you at?

(Party at my place.  Bring the cheap jug wine and a couple-dozen pizzas)

In the filk and dementia communities, where we’ve always been.

(Jug wine hell, I’m bringing Tully.)

cc: @filkyeahfilk

SPRING IS HERE, AH, S-P-RING IS HERE
LIFE IS SKITTLES AND LIFE IS BEER

Was?? I didn’t hear he was dead…

Oh, so far as I know he’s still living, but he is no longer a Harvard mathematics lecturer or a regular performer of musical satire.

(In an interview he did in I believe the late 1990s, he said that he likes to encourage rumors that he’s dead, as it cuts down on the junk mail.)

He appears to still be alive, and he stopped performing because he couldn’t do satire anymore in a world where Kissinger could win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Tom Lehrer is a treasure.

I have very vivid memories of my parents singing Tom Lehrer songs to me as a pre-schooler in the 80s.

He’s Jewish, btw!

Hunting Song is a bop.