The ultimate Charlie Brown Christmas gift

AAUGH Blog reader Mark points us to this unique Charlie Brown Christmas item that’s on eBay, in a sale ending in just a few hours: an (apparently) actual script for A Charlie Brown Christmas that was used for rewrites, paste-ups, and the like. At $2500 Buy It Now, this is not something that would likely end up in the AAUGH.com Reference Library even if we weren’t about to incur signficant relocation expenses. Of course, if someone wanted to buy it and donate it to the AAUGH.com Reference library, I’m sure we’d appreciate it… but I bet the Schulz Museum would appreciate the donation even more.

And that leads me to my next topic: yes, the AAUGH.com Reference Library is relocating. Now, since the library is not generaly open to the public, this would not seem to have much impact on anyone but me. However, it does mean that for about a month, the books will all be in boxes, so those of you who like sending me quick questions are apt not to get the usual quick answers until the library is relocated and reorganized. But by this time ext month, we should be ou of our Southern California location… and into another Southern California location, about 10 miles away!

Schulz/Peanuts news
New Peanuts podcast

Peanuts fans have had a number of podcasts to listen to over the years. Currently, there’s Unpacking Peanuts (working its way through the Peanuts canon four months per episode), Talking Nuts (working its way through the canon one month per episode), and It’s a Podcast, Charlie Brown (focused on, but …

Administrative
Well, that was a reaction

Yesterday’s post about socialism accusations being aimed at Peanuts and drawing a parallel to today’s attacks on libraries actually didn’t get much response. Even when I shared a version on social media, I got a mere handful of “likes”. But the one email I got was a doozy. I mean, …

Schulz/Peanuts news
Drawing Peanuts

Matt dropped me a line to show me this video that he had made, digging through every documentary source the he could find to clip footage of Charles Schulz drawing, including Schulz’s own commentary. It does get a bit mesmerizing. I kinda prefer that there was more strip work than …