Tom Lehrer - Tumblr Posts
“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don’t believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn’t want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I’m not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn’t know how to return the treatment.” — Malcolm X Speech, Dec. 12 1964, New York City.
here ya go:
i cant believe that james sommerton has a friend in minsk who has a friend in Pinsk, Whose friend in Omsk Has friend in Tomsk With friend in Akmolinsk. His friend in Alexandrovsk Has friend in Petropavlovsk, Whose friend somehow Is solving now The problem in Dnepropetrovsk
Happy birthday to Tom Lehrer, the writer of The Masochism Tango and many other songs, including a few for Sesame Street, if you can believe it. Turning 96 today, April 9th, 2024!
Great music by Tom Lehrer
i fucking love this song
one might say it has me in a chokehold
We made another thing for London MCM!
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Tom Lehrer is to Fallout what Starship Troopers is to Helldivers 2.
Let it be known: I am one of those rare New Yorkers who actually likes pigeons, but I still think this song is the bee's knees.
No pigeons were harmed in the making of this film.
...probably.
Edit: Turn on the Closed Captioning - it makes the entire experience feel like an avant-garde art film.
"I Hold Your Hand In Mine, Dear"
-Tom Lehrer
Just a weird picture done for my graphic novel course (the assignment was: draw something creepy/repulsive/horrifying).
Watercolor and ink
As per tradition, I share this song on the first day of spring, and I shall, always.
ALWAYS.
Filk follower here. I would love that. I grew up with my dad singing Tom Lehrer to us.
I will never understand why Tom Lehrer is not a massive thing on tumblr.
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.