Vaguely Peanuts-related bits

Famed rapper Snoop Dogg (a.k.a. as Snoop Doggy Dogg) has changed his moniker (last year; yes, I’m that far behind on my hiphop news) to Snoop Lion. This should prevent any further confusion. Of course, if he wanted to avoid being confused with a cartoon character, he should’ve just kept his birth name, which was… oh, Calvin. Never mind.

And since I did bring the topic up earlier: actor Peter Robbins plead guilty to the charges against him. Sentencing is next month.

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Peanuts for penguins

In late October 1957, newspaper reporter Rolla Crick meant to be visiting the US Navy’s south pole station (Amundsen-Scott) only briefly, but the engine on the US Navy Neptune that had brought him and others there had  broken down and they were all stuck to stay there for weeks. That’s …

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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!