Man About Town

In the grand scheme of things, it shouldn’t have bothered me so much. But I was shocked—shocked, I tell you—when I realized the Charlie Brown Halloween special was no longer on CBS. “Thirty years!” I screeched, rocketing a pillow at the TV. “Doesn’t 30 years mean anything?!” I felt like the jilted wife of a Dallas oilman, throwing a bottle of Jack at the bumper of a vanishing Cadillac. Instead I threw the remote.

Watching my beloved cartoon on ABC was like seeing Charlie’s face on the side of a milk carton.