A Little Holiday Music

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- The Willie Mays and Charlie Brown connections 

- How to publish your own book (HT Steve Layman)

- This was a very touching version

- Matt Taibbi: YouTube Ban is Un-American, Wrong, and Will Backfire

- A very good deed by an Iowa church. But $8,000 being able to buy $5 million worth of medical debt to me shows how overpriced and messed up our medical billing is.

- Cool - Scotland has the best names for its snowplow fleet

You're a Creep Charlie Brown

Blast from the Internet past.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.

- Parents who suck on their infants pacifiers may protect child from developing allergy. If my kid dropped their binky on the ground - I didn't hesitate to pick it up and clean it off in my mouth. Better a little dirt in my mouth than an unhappy kid missing their binky. Glad to hear there were other benefits.

- President Obama used Buzz Aldrin just for a photo opportunity.

- Another piece of my childhood soiled.

- Heh heh - new Man of Steel poster explained

- How do noise cancelling headphones work?

- I was wondering whatever happened in that story of the casino deciding not to pay Phil Ivey millions in winnings because they thought he was cheating

The Peanut Friends TV Show

Here's an idea for a TV show - take the format of the show Friends (including opening song and everything) but instead of the cast of Friends you'd have a real-life grown up versions of Charles Shulz' Peanuts characters.

Instead of a coffee shop - most of the action would take place at a piano bar with Schroeder being the "piano man". Lucy van Pelt, despite having a Ph. D in psychology, is the hostess at the piano bar restaurant (just to be close to Schroeder). Each week Lucy could give an psychoanalysis of whatever issue one of the gang is dealing with. Sort of a running gag. Schroeder could insist everyone call him "maestro" as a Seinfeld shout-out.

Charlie Brown's sister Sally could be played by a blonde hottie and the character would be sort of a slut. His best friend, Linus van Pelt could be played by one of The Big Bang actors who could geek slap big sister Lucy any time one of her on the spot psychoanalytical diagnosis makes no logical sense.

Peppermint Pattie and Marcie would, of course, be lesbians. Maybe Sue Lynch for Pattie and KD Lang for Marcie? Pig Pen could be a recovering drug addict. How could this not work?

And for Charlie Brown - I picture a younger version of Paul Giamatti. I would seriously watch this show if it were ever made.

EDIT: Literally less than an hour after writing the above I saw this Charlie Brown as Louie video. Too funny!

You're a Creep Charlie Brown