The week before last I blogged on “Peanuts.” Not the most august subject, I know. But there’s something about that comic strip that haunts me, that continues to mystify me. So I’m returning to it today. In my earlier post, I wrote that for the last three decades of the strip’s existence the … [Read more...]
Pictures from the Regulator Reading
I'm taking a break this week from my regular postings. My friend Karen Thornburg has sent me some wonderful photos from my February 10 reading at the Regulator Bookshop, on Ninth Street in Durham, NC, and today I'd like to feature those pictures. Karen is the mother of Adrian Thornburg, who … [Read more...]
Peanuts Comic – A Lesson From Sally Brown
For my birthday last November, my wife bought me a book called Peanuts Treasury, a collection of weekday and Sunday strips from Peanuts’ glory days. I’ve read them all by now. Yet I keep the book beside me, often when I eat, dipping into it and rereading at random. It reminds me what an … [Read more...]
The Sound of Silence
Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She once was a true love of mine. -- Simon & Garfunkel I don't know what made me think of "The Graduate." Maybe it was reading an article about the new film "Barney's Version," in … [Read more...]
