This one slipped under my radar for a couple of days. Tom Snyder passed away on Sunday; Letterman eulogized him last night. I fucking loved this guy. Loved every single damn minute of him. Obviously I missed his heyday by quite a few years but when he took the post-Letterman slot in '95, I think I watched every single episode. It was sort of an ongoing mainstay of my uni experience, watching Snyder religiously from 12:35 till 1:30 (or even later on tape if I missed it live), no matter where I had been that day or what I was doing the next day. Tom Snyder was just a fucking incredibly entertaining, watchable, insightful old fart eating up loads of airwaves in the wee hours of the night. I even wrote to him when I was like 22 or something like that - I can't remember what I asked him but it was probably unbelievably trivial - and he was (as I expect he was with everyone) kind enough to write back to me personally. Like, handwritten. Man, I cannot believe Tom Snyder is gone. It's a darker world without him.