We’ll start with my annual Grinchy reminder that it was Linus, not Charlie Brown, who cut all those eyeholes into his sheet. This was Halloween, 1956, when Linus and Schroeder were still toddlers, before they hit the cutoff age where Peanuts characters stopped growing. However, it’s like Star Wars in that things are “canonical” rather […]
Dogs and Halloween aren’t always a good combination, but today’s Bliss (Tribune) brought back a memory of a ridgeback who enjoyed dressing up. Some of my dogs have tolerated it, some haven’t, but he thought it was fun, so one time I put him in a Canadiens jersey, balanced a hockey helmet on his head […]
Pia Guerra is not the first person to observe that keeping kids locked up in concentration camps or guest cages or whatever you call them is a great deal more expensive than makes sense. However, she is the first I’ve seen to take advantage of the “Picture is Worth 1,000 Words” rule, and that is, […]