Updated a bunch of the galleries... :)

Bill Melendez, best known for bringing the Peanuts characters to life with such classics as "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," and the only animator permitted by Charles M. Schulz to work with the Peanuts characters, died Tuesday at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. He was 91.

Schulz and Melendez are both gone.

Full article here.

Kings Island (finally) announced their new hyper-coaster today: Diamondback. (My wife is just THRILLED that it's a snake... not.) Press release is inside. Then check the pictures on the Diamondback site.

George Carlin, 71, has died.

Here's another blurb... more of a tribute.

More here.

Yes!!! And, on top of the new video/single and upcoming album, the song is GOOD! Here's the live version.

Speaking of Crue, if you've not read The Dirt, read it! (Read it a year or so ago) "Her name was Bullwinkle." heh

Just finished reading The Heroin Diaries. Whoa... I thought I did some things when I was younger... damn. Sixx is lucky to be alive. Good song from the Sixx:A.M. album too. Read the book before you listen to the album, it gives the album a huge punch.

Danica Wins!

Ollie Johnston, the last surviving member of Disney's Nine Old Men, has died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w

Uh... OK.

Proof that companies need to spend more time naming their products.