Yesterday, in an entry titled The Dirty Ghostwriter, I recounted how I met Peter Robbins, a former child actor best known as the original voice of Charlie Brown in the Peanuts TV specials. We stayed in contact for more than a decade (though interrupted for four years while he was serving time in Chino State Prison). Over three days and nights in November 2019 we sat down to compile a book proposal: a memoir of his life in Hollywood, his descent into mental illness and a second life thanks to medication and therapy.

“Photoshop fails” are among the Internet’s oldest and most clickable content. Since bloggers and social media users have been able to call photoshop on edited images, they have done so, and audiences have gawked. I have seen in my career as an online writer and editor how much audiences love stories about celebrities getting caught photoshopping themselves for Instagram, magazines accidentally removing part of a cover subject’s body, and e-commerce sites that do all sorts of crazy things.

I know I wasn’t ready for all things fall last week, but this is a new week. And I was just sick for a whole week straight where all I wanted was a bowl of soup. During that time, I took my position as a sick person to my advantage and thought about every soup I would want to eat in that very moment. Pickle soup was one of the top contenders.

Hi friends!  We want to extend a warm welcome to new subscribers who found Notes From Three Pines from our appearance on The Library of Lost Time. You can check out our previous essays here. Amazon released the full-length trailer for Three Pines and a release date: 12/2/2022. Head over to watch if you haven’t already!  This week we’re sharing a piece on one of our favorite characters: Ruth Zardo.

But after eating a superb tavern pie at a local supper club, cut into little squares, and bedecked with home-made sauerkraut and sausage, I developed my own version because the pizza was so insanely delicious. I had to make it at home. More about that buddy of mine on Ask Me Anything this Friday.  I love using smoky chunky Krakowska from Kramarczuk’s in Minneapolis, one of the best old world meat purveyors in the country, but even supermarket bratwurst will work.