This week Amazon.com and big-publisher Macmillan had an arm wrestling match. Amazon lost. Kindle devices, already feeling like yesterday's newspaper after the iPad announcement, briefly flashed a sad-face emoticon.

Here's the story. Amazon wants to control (and keep low) the price of e-books (Sound familiar, iTunes?) But publishers don't like being told what their books retail for, and who wouldn't want an extra five bucks for every download sold?...

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By writing a book, Sarah Palin wants us to see a different side.

We've seen a different side of David Letterman and it's not funny.

And a VERY different side of Tiger Woods.

Magazine covers, late night TV appearances and countless media interviews all serve to show a more personable side of President Obama – at the risk of overexposure.

We all have many sides to us. Sometimes the ugly sides creep out (like at an airport terminal line). And don't we all wish our lesser-known good sides would be more apparent? Some sides are neither good nor bad. Remember the class clown? A few of my friends are like that. But privately I also know they can be deep and serious and this contradiction is why I relate to them.

Recently we have had the pleasure of producing two fun projects for author John Eldredge ...

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I am packing to take another trip across the country for a 2 hour meeting with a cool well-known mega-mega-church pastor. He has good doctrine, creativity galore. I am psyched but very busy. And the TV says “major storm heading our way”. I take a break with my fam to catch the warmth of the 30 minute special (well…23 minutes).

For years I’ve said, partly tongue in cheek: Could the Charlie Brown Christmas TV special, in some ways, be the most important TV program on anywhere, all year?

In the middle of all the fun, Charlie Brown poignantly pleads the question “doesn’t anyone know the true meaning of Christmas?” Then to a captive audience Linus humbly gives the elegant Gospel in all its power and glory. And along with Lucy, Snoopy and Pig Pen, millions of the everyday people (the ones we marketing and preaching types try to reach all year), hear it and are moved by it. Year after year, time after time, since around 1965. And we all know TV networks do not repeat programming unless it is making a serious impact on audiences/advertisers.

Merry Christmas Charlie Brown.

PS – One could go on for hours about the difference, generationally & culturally, between Charlie and the amusing but very vulgar Shrek the Halls.