Jazz for Peanuts

A new CD had dropped: Jazz for Peanuts: A Retrospective of the Charlie Brown TV Themes. It’s mostly David Benoit, with a little bit of Winton, a little Kenny, and a little Vince. Available as a physical CD, or as an eco-friendly download.

And on that jazzy note, let me add this jazzy note for my U.S. readers. Tomorrow (possibly today as you’re reading this) is Election Day. Go. Participate. Do. Whether you’re doing it to be part of history or simply to renew your complaining license. Many of you, possibly most of you, aren’t going to vote on the same side of things as I am (well, since only one of the many things to vote on is national, I guess most of you can’t vote on the same side as I do for most things!), but that doesn’t matter. Even if your vote won’t mean anything this time, voting is your way of announcing that you’re someone who has to be treated well for next time. And if the lines are long, just celebrate the fact that so many people care.

Drive safely, and I’ll see you here next time. Same blog time, same blog channel.

Share the news!
General
Charlie Brown, (at) All American?

There’s been a little editing back-and-forth over at Wikipedia about what is put in the “nationality” field for the various Peanuts kids. Thing is, in what is considered absolute canon — the strip itself — this question is never actually answered. Most of the time that you see the word …

General
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!

General
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 …