Is that ChristChristChristmas?

I’m always eager to buy a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas, and will snag upĀ most books related in any way to the special. But somehow, I think I’ll pass on this one:

Merry XXXmas, Charlee Frown, from erotica author Lotus Rose, is the secondĀ of his trilogy of holiday defender Charlee Frown tales, sandwiched between SinEaster and BlackHearts Day. Mature readers only, and prob’ly not even all of them.

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Something hatted, something hated

I’d been wondering about this for a while, so I decided to finally check the dates to see which was the inspiration and which the copy. Meanwhile, to bring us into the present moment…. artificial “intelligence”, how I hate you. Share the news!

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On the four panel status

For more than the first three decades of Peanuts, the daily strip was always four panels… well, no, that’s not quite 100% true, as I think of the August 31, 1954 daily strip of Patty jumping rope, but even that had panel breaks at the quarter, half, and three-quarter marks …

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The 75th Anniversary

I sat down to write a nice, long something on the 75th anniversary of Peanuts, because it’s a 75th anniversary, because this is the official marking of Peanuts being a cultural presence after the end of the strip for half as long as the strip was being made, and because …