I just got outbid on this:

Look at that! It’s a book and record of The Story of Snoopy and the Red Baron… but apparently with a license just for the song, it’s not a Peanuts item, so no dog in the dogfight… even though Snoopy is specifically described in the Royal Guardsman song (which is actually titled “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”). And now that I let it get away, I suddenly want it more than ever! Does anybody have this? Is it all the amazing wrongness that I imagine?

And while I’m speaking about things one hasn’t gotten… have you gotten all your Christmas shopping done? Well, if you want something shipped from Amazon to get there before Christmas, you’ve missed the boat. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t have options. There’s gift cards, of course, deliverable via email. But I think a better option is to preorder something for someone. Just as an example: I think that my former-NASCAR-racing brother and his wife would really like the movie Hit And Run, so I preordered a Blu-ray combo pack of it for them. So now, they get a note describing what they’re getting, and when the film is released in January, they get the gift itself…. and it feels like they’re getting a gift twice, a gift-giving win! So you could preorder someone the second collection of Peanuts comic books, or the next volume of The Complete Peanuts, or even something non-Peanuts like the first season of Aaron Sorkin’s new show Newsroom, and double-spread the joy!

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