Some online notes

  • My 5-year old daughter was playing her favorite online game Poptropica, and suddenly called me overĀ  to show me they’ve added a “Great Pumpkin Island” to the game, with Linus. Looks like they’re going to be adding more stuff to it soon.
  • Those of you going to the actual blog website will find that each AAUGH blog post is now followed by a series of icons. These are to make it easy to share the post via Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Blogger, Reddit, Digg, Bookface, Smashmouth, Pigpen, DuckDuckGoose, SquishMe, Mobster, Chuckleheads, Overly8, and TwitterlyTwo, among other social networking services. Spread the word!
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Schulz/Peanuts news
Award-winning Snoopy

I’m at a convention this week. Went to an award ceremony today, and something Peanuts got an award. Now, I’m used to seeing that happen when I go to comic convention award ceremonies… but this wasn’t a comics convention. It’s a museum store convention, for folks who run the gift …

Schulz/Peanuts news
Teen Peanuts characters in teen hands

Performed entertainment depicting the Peanuts characters aged up is a genre all its own. While there have been movies like (insert name of indy film that I just stumbled upon a few years back and now can neither recall the name of nor find any reference to), it’s been more …

Schulz/Peanuts news
25 years

Today is 25 years since Charles Schulz passed away. Tomorrow is 25 years since the final Peanuts strip ran. And yet, Peanuts is far from gone. The material is more available than it was when the strip was actually being created, with the entire run collected into books and available …