Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Tuesday, December 07, 2010


"Peanuts" was fated to be tremendous but one reason we use words like "icon" for A Charlie Brown Christmas is that it plays in a cultural ghost town, and the ghosts won't leave because no one can chase them away.

And it is slightly depressing that Charles Schulz, who died eleven years ago in February, commands more attention even now than the whole present cadre of comic-strip authors combined, confirming our national ectoplasm.

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