Almost two months ago, October 2, Peanuts celebrated the 75th year since it debuted. Late this month Peanuts is again in the news as Charles M. Schulz‘s birthday, November 26, 1922, and, of course, the re-airing re-streaming of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving both occurred recently. Following are some news stories covering both events and more. […]
No, Carmen, you didn’t.And be careful what you wish for anyway.It seems odd to be coming back from a day that was not only full of three-dimensional real-world distractions but in which even Facebook, that repository of confrontational misinformation, had turned for the moment into family photos and warmth.It was a pleasant respite, but coffee break’s […]
How old fashioned? This old fashioned. My dad made Christmas cards each year back before a whole lot of technical advances, and here is the plate from his 1951 card to prove it. If you mouse over it, you’ll see that I slugged it “cut” because that’s what graphics were referred to back in the […]
Jeremy gets grief in today’s Zits, but he brings back some memories for me, plus a little gratitude that my mother was a lot more mellow than his.While Christmas Day is, indeed, a huge family celebration, it seems to crest pretty early in the morning, fade in midafternoon and then just kind of peter out […]
One advantage of living in Australia is that it’s already tomorrow, so David Rowe got a jump on his American colleagues, who are (as I write this at 5:25 AM EST) just pouring their first cups of coffee.Though I see the NY Daily News also picked up on the irresistable straightline Moore handed everyone. I […]
Arlo & Janis set the mood for this morning’s nearly entirely non-political posting. I’m giving myself some practical gifts this year, like new tires, and one of them was even a holiday surprise, because I didn’t expect my computer to start falling apart.But I’m with Arlo, and I think it’s Scroogey to balance your budget by […]
Grand Avenue cites a common complaint, the over-long lead time on major holidays, such that, for instance, Halloween candy appears in the stores before Labor Day.The big one is Christmas because, O Best Beloved, there was once a time when Santa Claus arrived in town as the guest of honor in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day […]
Very quiet on the cartooning scene this morning — a lot of people getting in their annual holiday greetings. Few of them are particularly groundbreaking, but I did like this Rhymes with Orange acknowledgment of the Hannukah/Christmas synchronization.I also thought Steve Breen did better than others on the topic of social media in general and Twitter specifically. Someone […]
David Horsey lays out the mood of the season for, as he notes in his essay, not simply the majority of voters who opposed Trump, but also for a fair number of Republicans who are not going along with the Trump pogram, and you can check back in a year or so to see if I […]
Pooch Cafe echoes my own cynical take on all those heart-warming specials that not only come up on TV this time of year but are also parts of Very Special Story Arcs in comics.I’ve said enough about my doubts lately on how much all these “redemption” stories actually change anyone, but Jeff Stahler’s “Moderately Confused” made […]
Non Sequitur offers an editorial comment in the main comics section, which upsets a lot of people on general principles: They want to keep politics on the editorial page and reserve the funny pages for funny stuff.Which, granted, the current situation isn’t.But, as Bernie and Phil point out, Trump didn’t stay over in the silly […]
It’s the most earwormy time of the year and I’m with Mamet on this one. And avoiding the stuff on radio isn’t enough: If you go into a store, you’re sure to be there when they break off something relatively pleasant and drop some piece of horrible smarmy glurge on you that will persist until […]
Today’s headline is a little bit of nostalgia for those old enough to remember the gurgling sound of a White House sinking in its own lies. I doubt we’ll hear it again, now that, as Non Sequitur notes, we no longer have to worry about objective truth as a factor.The term “village idiot” gets thrown […]
Nothing on the political scene strikes me as remarkable today, except for the can of worms Ed Hall suggests we open and dig into.That is, there are a lot of political cartoons based on Trump not paying taxes, but there’s nothing much new to be said about it, which is part of his Teflon campaign: […]
According to my counter, many of you were able to ace Bug Martini’s “Caring About Family” test yesterday. Welcome back.Though, while the demands of the holiday may keep people from making their appointed rounds, if my own experience was at all typical, it didn’t mean putting the phones away entirely, because there was likely a […]