Month: September 2011

You’rea Good Man, Charlie Brown performed for two weekends in June of 1982, one weekend at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Hollywood and one at Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley. By all accounts, it was awful, as most of the kids had any idea what they were saying or why it was supposed to ... Read more

Youshould know that I’m dreading this post. As I consider the subject matter, all the awkwardness and embarrassment that defined much of my adolescence comes rushing back in waves, and it amazes me that I ever got it under control enough to persuade a beautiful woman to marry me. See, one of the reasons why ... Read more

Whenthe Los Angeles Children's Choir finally decided to mount a full-fledged production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in 1982, I was a shoo-in for the lead. I'd been playing the title role in my Rex Harrison's Baseball Game solo for over a year, and I was, you know, due. So when the ... Read more

MyCharlie Brown experience almost got off the ground circa 1978, when my mother had been enslaved by the Boy Scouts of America to serve as Cub Scout Den Mother to myself and my fellow almost-Webelos. She got the idea of doing a production of You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown at church, but when she ... Read more

VOLUME1: IN THE BEGINNING

“I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.”― Calvin, It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Last month, my brother gave me a DVD copy of the animated version of the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown for my birthday. ... Read more

DearMick:Hello. I spoke to President Obama yesterday, so it’s only fair I speak to you today. He told me to tell you hello. (Actually, he didn’t. I’m imagining he told me to tell you hello. You probably won’t read this anyway, so it doesn’t matter much.)Mick, I’m one of your more unusual fans, in that ... Read more

DearMr. President,How’s it going? It’s me, Stallion. We’ve never been properly introduced, but I did shake your hand once on a rope line. You have very nice teeth. I know you are very concerned about both the faltering economy and your faltering reelection chances. (If you’re not, I can introduce you to plenty of Democrats ... Read more

SoI've finally figured out how to make Google Analytics work with WordPress, and, in the process, I find out that the most frequently visited post on my blog is an ancient post from 2007, and it's not even gay-themed! It's this post right here - the Order of the Arrow. It's a fine post where ... Read more

We'vealready determined that I, as a Mormon, believe some really weird hoohah. (Jackson County, Missouri? Really?) But just as it's important to know what I believe, I feel it necessary to point out that there is a great deal I do NOT believe. I covered some of these in my post on Mormon folklore, but ... Read more

When we last left our goofball hero singing in the Book of Mormon musical, he was mocking us Mormons for believing in patently ridiculous things that clash with modernity - what Dickens called the "Age of Railways." He was setting up a three-line stanza - known as a "tercet" or a "triplet" - wherein ... Read more