I’d like to give this a try. But to make it really interesting, the RJ45 plugs can’t have boots on them.
PC World of Romance
What the heck is this?? PC World has an article titled, “5 Ways to Flirt Online“! Computers are no longer just personal, they’re intimate.
Stan Freberg Talks To Dick Cavett
My friend tastewar pointed out this appearance from 1971 of Stan Freberg on The Dick Cavett Show. In the second part there’s mention of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who died a few days ago. I gave TM a try for a couple of years way back when, and I’ll say more about that later.
Monte Schulz In TCJ #290
Charles M. Schulz died eight years ago today. Seems a lot longer, doesn’t it?
As Monte Schulz revealed here and at Cartoon Brew, he has written a lengthy essay about Schulz and Peanuts for The Comics Journal, that he is calling his final word on the subject of how his father’s biography is different from what he was led to believe it would be.
Fantagraphics has announced that Monte’s essay will be in issue #290 of TCJ, which should go on sale in May. My quick-acting buddy D.F. Rogers has already pre-ordered copies for us. Here’s a blurb about the issue:
Hard truth, subjective take, or slanted hatchet job? Monte Schulz and a roundtable of Peanuts experts and critics probe and debate David Michaelis’ controversial biography of one of the most influential and beloved cartoonists of all time: Charles M. Schulz.
Picking Pet Pics
Recently I went to PetulaClark.net and joined the International Petula Clark Society. Last week I received a copy of latest issue of Petula & Company. Among the interesting items in the digest magazine is Irene Seaton’s story about how she started the PETition to get Pet the title of Dame. At the moment there are 1,052 signatures. There’s only a month left to go!
Issue #134 of Petula & Company also has a photo I’ve never seen before, of Pet at age 25. Here it is, cropped. The full picture shows her in “her Microbat speedboat on the River Mole at Easy Molesey, Surrey.” How bizarre and fascinating! I’d love to know more about this. Was the boat given to her for promotional purposes?
And here’s a photo of Petula I took from a different source. She’s ten years younger here, only 15, and if you look quick you could almost mistake her for Shelley Fabares at the same age.
Monte Schulz Says…
Over at this link on Cartoon Brew, Monte Schulz says…
It seems as if my essay and the others will appear in the April issue of The Comics Journal. I hope you will all find my 36,000 words to be both informative and entertaining! And I hope to never have to write about the biography again! I think it’s a decent essay. It offers a lot of information, and it is not a re-hashing of what I’ve written on here. It’s all new.
So the issue of TCJ coming out in April is the one to get. We’ll be on the lookout, for sure. And just a little while ago, Monte added this comment…
Actually, Bill Melendez adored my father and could not have cared less whether Dad drank or not. That’s just another example of something David wrote that was either false or misleading. Bill and my dad were truly great friends and Bill is distressed over some of things David quotes him as saying in that book. In any case, had you ever seen my dad and Bill Melendez, you’d have known how fond they were of each other, and of Lee Mendelson, too. They made a great team back then.
If you haven’t read the David Michaelis biography Schulz and Peanuts, and you’d like to flip through the book at a store just to get a sense of what Monte is talking about, give page 384 a try. Read to the end of the last complete paragraph on page 385. Posthumous psychoanalysis.