First Post of '01

Good morning, year! Spent this a.m. doing a global search-'n'-replace to change all the copyright notices on this site.

My pal Nat Gertler pointed out (and I have fixed) garbled text in a couple of columns.  In converting Microsoft Word files to HTML, a number of odd things have happened, here and there, including dropped or repeated blocks of text.  If you happen across any, please drop me an e-mail at my address, which is at the bottom of every page.

By the way: Nat is an actor, writer and all-around good guy.  He's also one of the world's foremost authorities on Peanuts and Charles Schulz.  Clicking on Nat's name above will transport you to his website where he maintains, among other valuable info, a complete list of every Peanuts book, and an on-line store to order those you lack but which are still in print.

And, speaking of catching mistakes, Nat is the person who explained to me that the recently-released Peanuts 2000 book had a rather glaring omission in its first printing: Some genius at the publishing company had the bright idea to collect Mr. Schulz's last year of Peanuts but they somehow managed to leave out the final strip!  Brilliant work there…almost worthy of Charlie Brown, himself.  So if you're picking it up, you'll want to look for a copy of the second or any subsequent printings, to which that farewell strip has been added and avoid first printings which don't contain it.  (See what valuable stuff you can learn when you log in here?)