Peanuts creator Schulz led secret life of misery
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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.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - It was a big enough bummer for Kenneth Affolter when he was sentenced to more than five years in prison for making pot-laced treats and soft drinks. Now he faces the wrath of a candy giant. The Hershey Co.
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Lucifer knows, he's miserable now In a new book published this week, author Philip Pullman looked back with nostalgia at post-war austerity - and advocated the state cutting off your power as soon as you exceed your Carbon Ration. He also expressed his hope that Polar Bears would kill and eat lots of humans.â¦
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Howard Barkerâs 1981 political drama about a dissident cartoonist provides more questions than answers about the challenges facing truly free speech.
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An artist who last week ate a meal of meatballs made from a dead corgi dog in a protest against animal cruelty said on Sunday his next project involved being buried in a box under a mountain of mashed potato.
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TORONTO, Dec 5 (Reuters Life!) - Former Monkee Micky Dolenz, who now also writes books, has a dislike of long-term plans so he relies on his muse to tell him what to do.
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The great thing about a seemingly miserable guy like Maryland coach Gary Williams is, at his core, he craves the hardship.
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It was Charles Dickens who once wrote about ghosts of the past, present, and future. And while similar apparitions roamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center yesterday, prompting death watches at courts around the grounds, those men with the greatest expectations hoisted upon them, in the end, proved most stingy or, dare we say, Scrooge-like.
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One of The Onionâs earnest-looking everymen turns out to have a real problem.
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In the hours before Bradford C. Bleidt's life unraveled, he attempted to tie up all his loose ends. In neat stacks of paper, topped with handwritten notes, he gave authorities a roadmap of his years of deceit. And in a tape to his wife, he tried to make sense of why their marriage had become so troubled.
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No honour among Web 2.0 thieves Cheapskate fraudsters hoping to run phishing scams for peanuts have themselves been hoodwinked. Security watchers have spotted a free phishing kit containing a hidden backdoor that siphons off stolen credentials from the fraudsters who use the technology.â¦
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Most adults imagined that a drawing by the story's narrator, when a child, was of a crumpled hat.
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The pay's a joke and it's not funny  any more -- New York comedians have had enough of working for  peanuts and are threatening to walk out if the city's top  stand-up comedy clubs don't raise their wages.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Even at a time of sadness, Todd MacCulloch maintained his sense of humor. During the 76ersâ centerâs press conference to announce his retirement from basketball because of ongoing nerve
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Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy wrote that every unhappy family was unhappy in its own way, but best-selling author and management consultant Patrick Lencioni maintains that all miserable jobs are pretty similar.
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Der Bonker kerfuffle A German satirical cartoon featuring a singing Adolf Hitler in his bunker in 1945, lamenting his fate, has proved an internet hit for illustrator Walter Moers, The Guardian reports.â¦
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At one time in his life, Alvin Carpenter was spiritually bankrupt and addicted to drugs. Using dirty needles, he became infected with the AIDS virus. Seemingly helpless and hopeless, he was all but disowned by his family.