Bye, Tom

Another of my idols from my youth/young adulthood died today. I adored Tom Snyder. I would sneak out of bed to watch The Tomorrow Show — which was pretty easy to do because the TV was in the basement. And at one point, my bedroom was in the basement as well. It also helped that I’m an insomniac. It’s not that I was capable of sleeping anyway. Might as well watch something interesting on the tube.

Tom always had the coolest guests. Tom was always the epitome of cool himself. I always hoped that I could look that cool, chain smoking and chatting. Fat chance.

I loved that laugh. I loved it when Dan Ackroyd did that laugh of Tom’s on SNL.

It feels like a thousand years ago, those years.