This is the pattern on the new tie I just got via eBay. Actually, I think it’s a used tie – I cannot find this one for sale anywhere now – but in good shape, so it doesn’t matter. Now, I’m not a tie guy, but clearly either this is …

As the supposed zero hour approaches, I realized I should’ve posted this earlier:

It is now a week since it was announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed… and during that time, the story of what had happened has changed several times. Luckily, The Royal Guardsman – the same folks who brought us the songs depicting the conflict between Snoopy and the …

Talking about the Sweet Dreams, Snoopy board books, I made a reference to a cloth book called simply Sweet Dreams, based on a seeing it at this Etsy shop. At the time I was thinking “hey, that’s hopefully the only one of the cloth books which I don’t have!” (it’s …

Over at another website, they were polling people to name the 5 greatest kisses in comics history – and being the man that I am, all of the good kisses which came to mind were from Peanuts (sounds of shocked surprise fill the room). So for Valentine’s Day, I thought …

I just put out a post that had “2010 is coming” in the title. Please rest assure that this was inaccurate; 2011 is coming. For better or for worse, we will not be simply rerunning the current year. (Better, overall.)

I hope you’re all enjoying your Christmas – the family, the food, and not least of all, the gifts (and remember, if you have a new Kindle, or an iPad with a Kindle app, the price of Schulz’s Youth has been cut to $4.99 for the time being). But let’s …

As I type this, you have about an hour-and-a-half left to order gifts to arrive before Christmas, with overnight shipping. After that, you can, of course, still order gift cards to print out or email. (Although I bet if you can get the owner of that Schulz Christmas card art …

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 …

Well, now that we’re all done celebrating Beethoven’s birthday, it’s time to start preparing for the next major holiday, which is Christmas. And walking around the streets, I see that many folks are getting very Peanutsy in their decorations. I saw one house which at first I thought “hey, there’s …