A Cakey Charlie Brown Christmas

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Netflix has released the second season of its holiday baking competition show Sugar Rush Christmas, and the first episode focuses on creating desserts built around A Charlie Brown Christmas. There’s some very delicious-looking stuff being made, and some enthusiasm for Peanuts being brought into play. There are a couple of minor cringy things for the serious Peanuts fan, like a reference to a “safety blanket”… and then there’s the basic problem that competitive Christmas is something that A Charlie Brown Christmas comes out fairly firmly against. But it was still a fun watch and left me wanting to reach into the screen and grab a piece of many of the concoctions.

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Random little catch-up items

So many little things to catch up on. So much going on… and my life is so full (my son is heading off to college this week.) What can I cover? While Dolores goes unnamed in the A Summer Musical special, I am told that she is named in the Cantonese …

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Addendum to the The Wolf video

Shortly after I posted the video about the comic strip”The Wolf” which suggested ways in which it set the path for “Peanuts”, my pal and co-writer, Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark, pointed out something I had missed — while “Willie” had offered strips run in a two-tier format before …

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Unquote alone

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