It's a Halloween Hump Day! We will have more details about the Halloween Parade and other events in the city later, but we thought we'd point you to It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown videos on Youtube (part 1, 2, 3), in case you missed ABC's airing last night. You can also get it on DVD, and there's also the book It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic. Halloween......

On Sundays, Gothamist runs opinion pieces on issues relevant to life in New York. The views expressed below belong entirely to the author. I must admit, growing up I was always a bit bewildered by how my parents found Peanuts strips funny. I couldn’t get into them, especially certain characters and running jokes like Woodstock with his chicken-scratch thought bubbles or the whole Red Baron thing. Now, I’m a fan of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks......