The latest Wendys book cover

See? No Charlie Brown again. What’d I tell ya? The round-headed kid gets no respect.

This book should now or very shortly be appearing at a Wendy’s hamburger outlet new you, unless you’re not near a Wendy’s, in which case it will be appearing at Wendy’s far from you, where people will be gathering and gloating in their ability to easily obtain this book, and how that makes them superior to you.

I should have this book soon, and will post a review, probably with less of an essay on the dark and cruel human spirit attached.

New releases
A different kind of coffee table book

If you have a coffee table, you should have a “coffee table book”, a large, heavily illustrated color volume that your guests can easily and casually flip through, (Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects is a good choice, of course.) But you …

New releases
Review: Snoopy (Classic Cartoon Character Bios)

The Abdo Kids : Classic Cartoon Character Bios books are blatant stuff-to-fill-school-libraries material. Sturdy hardcovers, lots of pictures, 24 pages, little text – about 250 words. The Snoopy volume uses Snoopy images from just about anywhere: strips (appropriately licensed), animation, photos, The Peanuts Movie publicity materials. And the simple facts it …

Classic finds
A needle-ssly fine present

Being a) an adult and b) not a Christmasian, it makes sense that I’m not given much in the way of Christmas presents. This year’s haul was just two items, both given by Dr. Mrs. The AAUGH Blogger: a Terry’s Chocolate Orange (yum!), and this Peanuts embroidery book from Japan. …