I was given the best excuse possible for a TV-free Christmas by my sister: "Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography" by David Michaelis. An absolutely compelling read about my favorite cartoonist of all time. Nothing like a warm fire in the fireplace, a nice glass of tawny port, both cats curled up with me, and a good book. Television is one f**k of an intrusion at a moment like that.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)