BruceH

And the damn bridge is NEW???? WTF?

No.

That's a thought. My sister lives out there. No very close to NYC though. It's rather far from Boston as well.

I'm still waiting for vinyl-on-demand.

Maybe we're the only two on the planet then. Hello, it's nice to meet a kindred soul. I personally can't see how anyone could dislike "Peanuts," but to each his own. Incidentally, my top ten cartoonists/strips would be: 1. George Herriman - Krazy Kat 2. Walt Kelly - Pogo 3. Charles Schulz - Peanuts 4. G. B. Trudeau - Doonesbury 5. Bill Watterson - Calvin & Hobbes 6. Windsor McCay - Little Nemo in Slumberland/Dream of the Rarebit Fiend 7. R. Crumb - Various titles (Fritz the Cat, My Troubles with Women, etc) 8. Art Spiegleman - Maus/Raw/In The Shadow of No Towers 9. Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth/The Acme Novelty Library 10. Bill Griffith - Zippy the Pinhead My favorite newspaper cartoonists who are still working include Stephen Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Patrick McDonnell (Mutts) and Darby Connelly (Get Fuzzy). I despised Johnny Hart when he was still in the paper. B.C. has to be one of the worst strips EVER. Great list. I would add only Cliff Sterrett with "Polly and Her Pals" off the top of my head.

The guy always was a four-star jerk.

Brookline, Massachusetts. Or Vancouver. Or Portland, Palo Alto, Burlingame, Mill Valley...there are a lot of good places.

What a career! RIP

Lives of the Planets---Richard Corfield

Alexander, I heartily recommend those Fantagraphic hardcover "complete" books. For a long time I was frustrated that Peanuts, for all its popularity, was so oddly ill-served by book reprints. This series finally fills that longstanding need for a truly complete, well-researched, meticulous, and decently produced set. The only criticism I would venture is that some of the intros are lame, but so what? If you're a big fan you should check these out.

Isn't Richard Boone the protaganist in that? He made such an interesting bad guy in The Tall T.

Not true. There was a guy in Fond du Lac Wisconsin who also didn't care for the strip. Good grief!

Thanks for the post---hope you stick around for another 50 years. (Hey, with medical advances, it could happen!)

He should sit closer to the piano.

For the audiobook version does he do all the voices? Heh

These days, isn't jazz pretty far from the beaten path?

As always Larry, thanks for your insight.

It has the same front cover (essentially) as the original Riverside album Blue Soul---don't be fooled! But DO get Blue Soul. Has a lot of the same qualities as A Sure Thing. It's more of a sure thing than A Sure Thing! (And I'm sure about that.)

You know, it's not nice to go around knocking people off.

It has the same front cover (essentially) as the original Riverside album Blue Soul---don't be fooled!

Absolutely! His Savoy stuff with Lucky Thompson is primo, too. Double yes!!

Yes!

Bird played a white plastic alto at Massey Hall, didn't he? But the subject is white alto players, not players of white altos.

Thank God October 14 is next week because... oh. Shit.

"Bump bump BUMP...ba dump bump BUMP"