San Francisco, CA - It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

Schulz’s comics were so good that I thought a whole page devoted to them would be good and bring back many memories. First, however, we have an actual picture of me, composing this blog. Just like Snoopy when he’s composing his ‘Dark and Stormy Night’ stories, I also write on a typewriter - though mine is a bit newer. Although, this is the kind of typewriter I typed all of my high school papers on. I didn’t get a real typewriter until I went to college.

First a paean to unrequited love. I got tired of standing in the museum with my knee in this heavy cumbersome brace and went out to the lobby to sit down and relax. Here I found a notebook with lots of the Red Headed Girl themed comics in it with plastic over them. That’s why the color might be a bit off and there is a sheen in a few places.




I saw this one on the wall and started to laugh when Lucy was sliding down the pitcher’s mound and then erupted when Charley Brown said they’d have a better team if she had something under her cap. ‘Baseball is the best sport for a cartoon strip, because you don’t have to have too much action. . . . Baseball is perfect because little kids do play it at that age. And they aren’t very good at it. But, boy, do they suffer at it.’ Charles M. Schulz.

’There’s something funny about unrequited love, I suppose it’s because we can all identify with it.’ Charles M. Schulz. Sally used everything she knew how to win the affections of Linus but he continually dismissed her affectionate use of the expression ‘Sweet Babboo’, a phrase Jean Schulz coined for her husband.

Neuroses were a favorite topic of Schulz. “I get a lot of ideas when I feel most depressed.’ Charles M. Schulz

And, again the Little Red Headed Girl. Didn’t we all have a little red headed girl in their life? Mine was named Ken and when he chose another, it took me a while to get over it. But, boy, when I did get over it, I was really over it. Luckily, I didn’t get stuck with Ken. Whew. I found my own Sweet Babboo.

Good Grief.