Two cultural giants gone, today...

[Dawg]

Sad news today.

First, we heard of the passing of Laugh-In's Henry Gibson at 73 after a brief battle with cancer. A genuinely funny man who entertained for his entire life, best known for his off-beat poetry on the classic Laugh-In, and most recently for his role as a judge on Boston Legal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090917/...nm/us_gibson_1

I'd say heaven just got a little funnier.

Then, as I was reading that story, another headline caught my attention. If you were enough of a child of the sixties to know Henry Gibson from Laugh-In, you knew of the folk music phenomenon that ran through our social consciousness in that decade, and you knew the trio of Peter, Paul and Mary. Today Mary Travers lost her battle with leukemia.

Say what you will about their politics, everyone agreed their music was in a class by itself. "If I Had a Hammer," "Blowin' in the Wind," "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "I Dig Rock and Roll Music," "Puff (The Magic Dragon)"...

They deserved the awards they won.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/...t_mary_travers

May they both rest in peace.

I am
Dawg

[BST]

*sigh

We really are getting older, my friend.

Bit by bit, tangible parts of our formative years are passing into the pages of history.

Rest in Peace.

[Athene]

I was really saddened to hear this news.

I remember both very well.

They were part of my childhood and will be sadly missed.

RIP Henry and Mary.