Peanuts Is Timeless, Pt. Is February Over Yet?

How can the shortest month of the year seem so perdurable? You know it's bad when I'm pulling words like that out of my butt.

This cartoon makes the Charlie Brown/steroids one I linked last week look positively Larson-esque.

I have never heard one note of the Owls music, but this interview alone has made me curious. If it sucks, well, at least they have good choice in heroes.

"How come you can talk to me? I notice you have no trouble talking to me!"

I want to learn!

Okay, now we have reached the inevitable moment in all these PIT roundups where it hits us once again. Is the Charlie Brown and Lucy football gag too legendary, too pithily perfect a comment on the nature of humanity to ever fall out of fashion as a reference...or are people unimaginative?

As per usual, I found more than a few politically-themed articles that dropped the ball gag, including a P. J. O'Rourke piece. Most interestingly is its appearance amid a debate (which is itself worth the read; Barack Obama has a serious flaw with his views on the housing market. I don't know how many of you care about that, but you should calm down, breathe, and start to see that while he may be the best option for Commander in Chief, he is not Willy Wonka come to pass out golden tickets.)

The football refs do extend into other realms of life, however, such as computer technology and--most stunningly--sports. Leave it to a forum devoted to the wretched, base, Evil Dead horror that is Duke basketball to somehow fuck up the reference though.

Time will tell whether this is another Charlie Brown kicking the football away from Lucy experience or not,

Time can save its breath. Just more Duke brilliance, it infests the whole state. I can hear "Coach K" now, pre-game: "You guys gotta go out there and play to win! Just like Charlie Brown! He always went out there with his blanket, cloud of dust everywhere, and kicked that football for a grand slam!"

Charlie Brown Snoopy Peanuts