Peppermint Patty, Future RIAA Board Member.
From the recent Fantagraphics release The Complete Peanuts: 1979-1980:
Yes, I know that this sort of thing has been a concern for a very long time, but there was still that very brief moment of “the past, and the future…COLLIDING” reading this, given the current nearly-constant media presence regarding the dangers of home taping. Or whatever it is you kids do nowadays, what with your cassette players and your patch cords and your kinescopes.
Charles Schulz, topical humorist across the decades! (Someday, Daniel Boone-style coonskin caps will come back into style, and all the Peanuts strips about those will become relevant again…just you watch!)
Related: the Schulz Museum has an exhibit last year focusing on the various pop culture references found in the strip. No online version of the exhibit appears to exist (though maybe I’m just not finding it), but I’ve briefly discussed before the odd feeling of encountering real-world pop culture mentions in the strip.
Because I always know great fashion/lifestyle advice when I read it, I just ordered my coonskin cap (Davy Crocket style) and kinescope today!
To this fair, this *was* more topical in 1980 when he did the strip. It’s not like he did it yesterday.
Ken – Sort of the point of my post, yes.
Sorry, thought you were presenting it sarcastically.
Ken – No worries.
I saw a couple of kids wearing coonskin hats in just the other day.
I wonder if the book was Tales of the Black Freighter.