The news article below is very typical of the posts and comments I read on this blog every day. It's no wonder that pubs and churches are flourishing. I admit that I get tired of reading normalguy's private posts, but I continue to do so because he's not putting on a happy face and pretending. He's saying how he feels and is asking for support. I'm very please to know him, and I continue to have hope he'll become a happy normal guy.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Good Grief, Charles Schulz. The creator of the beloved Peanuts comic strip was a shy, lonely man who used his child-like drawings to depict a life of deep melancholy, according to a controversial new biography.
The book is based on six years of research, unlimited access to family papers, more than 200 interviews and a close reading the 17,897 strips Schulz wrote and drew. It portrays Schulz as a man who felt unseen and unloved even if his readers numbered in the hundreds of millions.
Biographer David Michaelis, author of "Schulz and Peanuts," said the cartoonist was also a man who could neither forget nor forgive any slight or lonely moment.
Not for a minute did he believe that "Happiness was a warm puppy" -- and he may not have believed in happiness at all.
2007-10-20 @ 14:56