One of the longstanding rules of Fortress Party is that all kids, including my own, must leave the house by 9 pm, so the adults can unwind and focus on their own debauchery. In recent years, we have marked this moment by unveiling a NSFW room at 9 pm. The Stephen Hawking Love Guru room and the Moulin Rouge room were deemed too risqué for children. The Game of Thrones room was arguably too scatological.
In 2015, the After-Nine room was too macabre for kids. The Studio of Charles M. Schult'z Head featured the famous comic strip artist's disembodied noggin, floating in a vat of electrodes and amniotic fluid. The premise was that when Schultz died of colon cancer in 2000, his publishers kept his head alive so they could force him to uphold his contract and come up with new Charlie Brown comic ideas for the rest of time. The head of Schultz wanted nothing more than to be released from this eternal labor, so all of this punchlines were about wishing for death.
The head (of which I somehow have no pictures) was attached to this computer, which would count down in increments of 4 minutes. Every time it got to zero, a new morbid Peanuts comic would roll off the printer. Guests were directed to trim the comic and pin it to the cork board.
This is what the board looked like towards the end of the night. There were over 100 comics in total, but I'm copying some of my favorites below.
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