GOOD GRIEF

Happy Friday everybody!

Check out my reviews, online at Phoenix Magazine, of the startling, Afghanistan-set verite drama Jirga...

...and of the inexplicable but welcome re-release of 1969's A Boy Named Charlie Brown...

Have a great weekend!

DOG DAY MIDNIGHT

With The Peanuts Movie opening this weekend, check out my list, on The Robot's Voice, of Strange and Nerdy Manifestations of Peanuts. One item…

Monster-of-the-Week: …is this week’s honoree: Frankenbeagle!

I found him on sale, post-Halloween, at PetSmart, and so he came home with me, along with Snoopy-as-a-skeleton and Snoopy-as-Dracula…

…one for each of our Chihuahuas. Here’s Sadie, bonding with her new pal...

TREED

Say it ain't so, Chuck! Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown in the first Peanuts specials, has been arrested for stalking and making threats. I hate to ask, but did the Little Red-Haired Girl finally get fed up and call the cops?

Anyway...


Monster-of-the-Week: ...this week let's honor Charlie Brown's nemesis, the Kite-Eating Tree:

 Always one of the more unnerving flights of Schultz's imagination...