What to do with the gifts you got

Just a couple quick reminders: if you got an Amazon gift card, the items you buy will help support this blog if you go to Amazon using a link like this one for Snoopy thank-you notes. And if you got a Kindle, a Nook, an iPad, or just about any other sort of ebook reader or tablet, I’ll be glad to give you a free copy of my new racy humorous prose novella Stand-in Superstar, a tale of Hollywood hijinx, so long as you promise that if you like it, you’ll tell someone. Just drop me a note at questions@aaugh.com and tell me what sort of device you have.

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Addendum to the The Wolf video

Shortly after I posted the video about the comic strip”The Wolf” which suggested ways in which it set the path for “Peanuts”, my pal and co-writer, Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark, pointed out something I had missed — while “Willie” had offered strips run in a two-tier format before …

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Unquote alone

The warning signs about the new book Rediscovering the True Meaning of Christmas with A Charlie Brown Christmas”: Celebrating Christmas with a Charlie Brown Touch starts with the title, and its curious use of a single double-quotation mark. That’s part of the name every time it’s listed, whether on the …

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Candidate Snoopy

The promotion of “Snoopy for President” dates back to at least 1961 (possibly earlier, I don’t have great reference on it.) The idea is not limited to US presidential election years, but it does tend to swell then. There was not only merch but newspaper articles on it in 1968. …