Franklin, the radio drama

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I’m posting this before listening to it, so I can’t make any comments on the quality, but BBC 4 Radio just released their audio drama about the correspondence between Harriet Glickman and Charles Schulz that lead to the introduction of Franklin in Peanuts. Go listen.

I wish Harriet had lived to see this day, both because she would have gotten to hear this, and because it would’ve made her happy to vote blue in today’s election. (Have you gotten out to vote yet?)

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Random little catch-up items

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Addendum to the The Wolf video

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Unquote alone

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