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little Peanutsy bits

In the US, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs Tuesday on ABC. Next Sunday, November 2nd, Fox will be airing the 19th annual Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror special… and this year’s includes their parody of The Great Pumpkin. A friend of the blog points us toward a new Snoopy …

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General

more Hallmark editions

Stopped by my local Hallmark Gold Crown store today, and saw that they had two more books in their own editions… which (as far as I could quickly tell) really just vary from the standard editions with minor Hallmark markings. They’re the new, revisionist-history edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas, …

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Now shipping

For those who collect the boxes

Barnes & Noble has an exclusive boxed set of all six of the DVDs released under the new remastered DVD line. This they have for a list price of $99.99, and an online price of $79.99. Thing is, you can order the non-exclusive boxed set with three DVDs (Great Pumpkin, …

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Classic finds

It’s Springtime, Snoopy

Just added to the shelves of the AAUGH.com reference library… well, not to the shelves, they’re pretty full, but to one of the piles near the shelves (I really do have to get this all straightened out one day) is It’s Springtime Snoopy, which is really a beginning English language …

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Now shipping

Stuff now shipping

S Things that are now shipping: The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 The Complete Peanuts 1967-1970 boxed set The paperback edition of Schulz and Peanuts, the problematic biography (for those of you rooting against this book, let me note that while the hardcover edition was a best-seller on Amazon during its initial …

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Classic finds

Following up on the earlier post on the Japanese Snoopy magazine, I am pleased to announced that we can now identify the object of Snoopy’s affections in this teen dream shot. It’s Italian movie actor Ray Lovelock. And (unlike many teen dreamfuel of the past) Ray is still a successful  …

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New releases

The Complete Peanuts, 1969-1970

The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 will be shipping soon. Should you buy it? Well, yes, of course. If you’re reading the AAUGH Blog, you’re the sort of person who should be buying all these volumes. Why do you even ask me such silly questions? Having just finished reading through it, I …

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New releases

Finally, a book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas!

I have in my slightly-peanut-buttery-smelling mitts the book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas. No, not that one. No, not those. This years. No, not this year’s snow-block adaptation, this year’s non-snow-block edition. Yeah, this one. And yes, this is a brand new adaptation. Someday (not at least a theoretical …

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Schulz/Peanuts news

Peanuts is everywhere

No book news here. I just couldn’t help noting how the Peanuts hits the world in many places, in many ways. Between finding a page of praise of Schulz from the Pakistan Observer (which judging by their trying to pin recent terrorist attacks on the CIA, is not a lover …

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Classic finds

the Japanese Snoopy magazine

The mailman must like me, because he’s been bringing me a lot of Peanuts goodies lately. Today, it’s an issue of a Japanese Snoopy magazine from the 1970s. And I feel like going through it right now, so here I go. The cover is a particularly low-resolution of Snoopy looking, …

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