Grant Robertson · new media superhero

So, Peter Boyle passed away. I’ll save a long diatribe but, suffice to say he’ll be missed. I’ll never seperate the visual image of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Lazlo” from a wild haired Peter Boyle in “Where The Buffalo Roam.”

Which leads me to this; I’ve not been able to get the ending quote from that movie out of my head. So, as wildly inappropriate as it really is to the situation, here’s my good-bye to Boyle.

“Well I guess if I had to swear one way or another, I’d say Lazlo wasn’t insane. He just had very strange rhythms. But he stomped on the terra. Lord Buckley said that. It’s hard to say he got what he deserved, because he never really got anything, at least not in this story. And right now, this story is all we have … It’s sad. But what’s really sad is it never got weird enough for me. I moved to the country when the boat got too crowded. Then I learned that President Nixon had been eaten by white cannibals on an island near Tijuana for no good reason at all. Golly, you hear a lot of strange and unnatural things about the world these days. Lazlo and Nixon are both gone now, but I don’t think I’m going to believe that. Not until I can gnaw on their skull, because it still hasn’t gotten weird enough for me.“