This is how I got reminded.

https://twitter.com/SchulzMuseum/status/1389967196567347202

I only saw Mrs. Furlan in person once, at San Diego, just as Babylon 5 was getting going. And that, from across a standing-room only hall. Her work on-screen was nonetheless stellar, in the best sense, in the role of Delenn.

I never got to see Mr. Aaron, but I read the Peanuts strip with Snoopy standing in for Mr. Aaron, taking his own share of hate mail as a fictional beagle on his own quest to break Babe Ruth's record, and later learned the fuller story. Mr. Schulz was clearly a fan of Mr. Aaron, from what I saw in print.

Two people worthy of respect. Now both gone.

Remember this one? Seventy-nine years ago in about a dozen US newspapers...Shermy, Patty...and Good Ol' Charlie Brown...

It seems that I am the first Dreamwidth user to admit to being interested in the works of Charles Schulz in the Interests section of their profile page.

I can't be the only user who's enjoyed his work, surely?

Because there's this other thing that's been announced today...and I'm not sure what I make of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FNL_iIp5c

I've been reminded that today in 1922 was the date of Charles "Sparky" Schulz' birth.

Whatever the security blanket of your choosing, I wish you well.

...i happened to take a break or two along the way, and thanks to the Newsarama Blog, I found a link to this little item: an interview with Charles Schulz.

Perhaps, not so incidentally, I found something at Perfect Books whilst shopping for this and that downtown over the course of that weekend that Mr. Schulz almost certainly must've had in his personal library: a book by one of his professional role-models, Bill Mauldin, entitled Up Front. Regrettably, I was either fool enough or broke enough to not immediately buy that book, but it seems to me like something anyone who enjoys Mr. Schulz' work ought to be adding to their own collection.