A story of how Charles Schulz got it past CBS.
I remember watching it as a kid, and being annoyed that the kids voices weren’t what I’d imagined them reading the comic strip.
Category Archives: Popular Culture
Die Hard
The New Vette
It looks like a very interesting car, but I would miss the manual gearbox, too.
The Rise Of Skywalker
Peter Suderman gives it a hearty thumbs down:
Skywalker is a frantic, disjointed mess—not a movie with good ideas poorly executed, not even a movie with bad ideas, but a movie with no ideas at all, save for saccharine paeans to fandom and nostalgia. As a story, it is empty and unengaging to the point of boredom. As a cinematic product, it is surprisingly lackluster, with shoddy effects and muddy visuals. And as an entry in the Star Wars franchise, an ostensibly major part of the pop-culture canon, it is a wasted opportunity: a total failure of both creative imagination and corporate brand management.
But other than that, I’m sure it’s great.
The Far Side
It may be coming back. I always wondered by Larson quit doing it, but it sounds like maybe he’s recharged his batteries.
The Baroness
We were watching The Sound Of Music last night while trimming the tree. Someone else was on Twitter, and linked this spoof from eight years ago, that I’d never seen.
Farewell To California
Andrew Malcolm has had enough.
We’re thinking of getting out, too. I’ve loved this state since I first visited it on a family vacation over half a century ago, but the inmates are running the asylum in Sacramento.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Over one in three San Franciscans are thinking of leaving.
The Unfinished Symphony
…is being finished by AI.
It will be very interesting to hear what it comes up with.
Altamont
I was alive then, a few months after Apollo 11, but I’d never heard the full story of what had happened there; I only knew that there was another music festival, like Woodstock.
S. E. Cupp
This is sad.
Another TDS victim. I used to think she was smart.