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Torre

While I’ve seen Peanuts strips reprinted in a variety of formats, while researching an answer for AAUGH Blog reader Elaine, I came across one that I hadn’t seen before. In 2014, the New York Yankees had a day to honor Joe Torre, former player and manager – and as a special commemoration of that event, they made up a set of pins featuring one of the final Peanuts strips (Dec 27, 1999), featuring Charlie Brown doing his imitation of the great Torre. Cool! There’s a set of these available on Amazon.

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Review: Where’s Snoopy?

The thing it understand about the new hardcover Where’s Snoopy: A Search-and-Find Book by Natalie Shaw and Scott Jeralds is that this isn’t really a puzzle book a la Where’s Waldo? or some of those books of richly detailed photographs where it really takes careful poring over to locate the missing …

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The expensive book I’m glad I bought, the discount book I kinda wish I hadn’t

Two books joined the AAUGH.com Reference Library today, neither of them new volumes. One of them brought grins, one brought a loud meh. Four years back I noted that there was a book out called Man’s Best Friend, documenting a gallery show by Kaws, an artist some of whose work …

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Italian surprise

I was going to do a brief write-up on Beaglefest, including mentioning the few things I got to add to the AAUGH.com Reference Library… really, just five items, three of which were books in Italian, which were picked up at the Snoopy Gift Shop. Now, normally I wouldn’t pick up …