During my workday, I spend about 10 hours performing a mix of reading and writing. So when I get home, I’m not always ready to both churn out more copy and read another gaggle of pages. Usually, blogging wins out. But I’ve started reading “Schulz and Peanuts” by David Michaelis in preparation of interviewing him, so my freetime goes there.
However, I’m constantly scrawling new ideas and should be back to regular blogging by next week. Someday I hope to increase the output here, but my schedule doesn’t really allow it at the present time. I’ll explain in one of the upcoming blogs.
In the meantime, feel free to read any of the links on the right of my page. Thanks for stopping by - every visit is appreciated. I mean, if a nerd blogs in the middle of the forest and no one reads it, did he really write anything?
I’ll write a review of the book and also post the article if it all works out. Thanks again.
-E.
2 Comments
October 24, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Elliot, how weird…I just e-mailed you about that book. I’m liking it. He’s appearing in St. Paul next Tuesday, I’ll be there.
I’m interested to hear what he has to say about the family’s unhappiness with the book. They feel it painted a negative picture of Schulz, but thus far I’ve discovered nothing I didn’t know already. He was depressed…obsessed…oh, and a genius who shaped my life practically from birth. Nothing wrong with that.
Tell the author a fellow blogger is enjoying the book very much. tb
October 25, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Sports Illustrated today (the one with the Celtics on the cover) has an article on what great sports cartoons Schulz created, pointing out that many are reproduced in this book (I have yet to get a copy, but that’s because of a cash-flow problem). They reference his wife finding out about his extramarital affair by looking at the phone bill. I assume that reference is accurate, which makes me think that the family may not be happy, but obviously either Sparky felt his wife was too dumb to figure this out or he wanted to be caught ( a variation on “Suicide by Cop.”).
I remember reading (years ago, obviously) “Schulz says he’ll never draw the little red-haired girl” after she’d already appeared in one of the TV specials.Of course he hadn’t drawn her there, technically. I can’t say I was disillusioned, really, but I began using more salt with my daily taste of “Peanuts.”
Considering that Schulz and Elvis make millions every year, I really can’t feel TOO sorry for the family. They should remember that Margaret Mitchell’s heirs got greedy and commissioned “Scarlett.”
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