Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for June 16, 2020

what were the 1950s-1990s called as at the time of the strip’s original publication?

I’d settle for last December, at this point.

When you are a kid, last week or next week seem to be a log time ago or ahead!

“You know, the good old days weren’t always good. Tomorrow ain’t as bad as it seems—” Billy Joel.

Better than the Troubled Twenties that we seem to have kicked off!

Well Charlie, according to Carly, these are the good old days.

Although she sang that well before 2020.

Well, today is Bloomsday. Yes, YES.

Good ’ol 2019!

A tad young for nostalgia, aren’t we?

Oh Charlie, if you only knew…sigh…

Ah, the Fabulous Fifties!

I never understand folks getting nostalgic for a time period they never experienced. I get wanting to experince what it was like living during the time period. But it seems so many aren’t “I wish I’d lived during the _______”, rather it’s “I miss the _______.” How can someone in their twenties miss the ’60s?

I had a thought the other day, that someday people may actually be looking back at 2020 as the “good old days”… and then I broke out a fifth of Scotch and started feeling better.

Funnily enough, that’s the year this has been. And it’s only half-over!

Do not ask, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. (Ecclesiastes 7:10)

I see Charles Shulz never understood gravity. It’s most noticeable in his later period when Lucy or Schroeder or anyone visits Charlie Brown on the pitchers mound. Shulz treated gravity like magnetism with the kids sticking perpendicular to the surface of the ground rather than standing upright regardless of the inclination of the terrain.

wow