NP: Tom Lehrer

[Ian Livingston]

Another Santa Cruz boy. It was easy to be reclusive in the woods north of
SC in the 70s. Pynchon hung out thereabouts, too. Gregory Bateson was there
at the time, too. Lived down the hill from us. It was also about then, a
few years later, maybe early 80s, that some of the first models of chaos
theory began to take shape in a back room at the university. It was a
vibrant community then. Lehrer was a favorite listen around our house. My
dad had an early 78 rpm from the Harvard Lampoon Days, featuring such
goldies as "Be Prepared," "The Old Dope Peddler," "Lobachevsky," and
"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park."


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:54 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Another reclusive genius:
>
> http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom-lehrer
>
> Great article, with song links.
>
> Laura
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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