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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: Peanuts minus Schulz

As part of the effort to clean out the living room, I’ve decided to give up on trying to read all of Peanuts minus Schulz and just give the general impression. This is supposed to be An Important Reflection On Art, but their claims about that seem more like weak cover …

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Double-header

I had been lacking books from the Snoopy Museum in Tokyo, so when I saw one one for sale on eBay, I chunked up some money and ordered it. It was a bit more than I like to spend on one book… which is why I was so happy when …

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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. …