Daily Archives: September 17, 2009

But what about the buffalo?

As you know, Mary of Peter Paul and Mary has died. So has Henry Gibson. Although I did go through a folk music phase … worked in a folk-music coffee house for a while and everything (and I went to school with Kay Wilkie, I got a cat from Arlo Guthrie, and Pete Seeger was the first member of the nature conservation organization I started when I was a kid and so on) … I was always much more comfortable in the Niel Young – Zappa part of the spectrum. Henry Gibson, who’s heart was bigger than his 1970s period lapels, was a regular on Laugh-In, which was, at the time, a very funny TV show. I’d love to see a re-run because I think I would wonder why it was funny.