I’m dreaming of a wet Christmas

I find it interesting how the whole nation embraces the wintery image of Christmas – including here in this southern California town where I live, and where there probably hasn’t been a half-inch of snow in the past century. Even folks who have always lived around here are putting plastic snowmen on the lawn and penguins on the roof. This isn’t the Christmas of their memories for many folks here; it’s the Christmas of the TV specials, of Rudolph and Frosty and, yes, A Charlie Brown Christmas.

As I write this and probably even as you read this, there are still a few hours left to order gifts from Amazon and have them reach their destination by Christmas eve even with the Free Super Saver Shipping option. So you can still get one of these:

or one of these:

or even one of these:

…and have it in time for gift-giving, without paying rush shipping charges.

As long as I have you here, I’ll mention that the interview I did with Mr. Media a few weeks back now has a permanent home here. So if you’re longing to find out if I have the dulcet tones that are now required of anyone getting a blogging license, this is your chance to find out!

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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 …

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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 …