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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Under the influence of The Wolf

I’ve talked about this a bit earlier on this blog, but now I’ve gone and made a whole video about the odd tranformation that the World War II cartoon panel “The Wolf”, aimed at American GIs, slowly evolved into a daily comic strip about a quirky bunch of neighborhood kids …

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The AAUGH Blogger, [North] Hollywood Consultant

Hello from out here in fire country! There’s a fire in town and we’re still under red-flag warnings for more, but rain is likely this weekend and that should ease things quite a bit. Anyway, amidst all the various forms of confligration at the moment, I have agreed to be …

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All the Snoopy cars

As I was driving my car… …to Del Taco the other night, I found myself behind this car… ..and I have no idea who that is, I really wonder. I generally enjoy seeing people’s vanity plates, and I hope others enjoy mine… but I gotta reckon anyone who saw these …