Some online notes

  • My 5-year old daughter was playing her favorite online game Poptropica, and suddenly called me overĀ  to show me they’ve added a “Great Pumpkin Island” to the game, with Linus. Looks like they’re going to be adding more stuff to it soon.
  • Those of you going to the actual blog website will find that each AAUGH blog post is now followed by a series of icons. These are to make it easy to share the post via Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Blogger, Reddit, Digg, Bookface, Smashmouth, Pigpen, DuckDuckGoose, SquishMe, Mobster, Chuckleheads, Overly8, and TwitterlyTwo, among other social networking services. Spread the word!
Schulz/Peanuts news
New Peanuts podcast

Peanuts fans have had a number of podcasts to listen to over the years. Currently, there’s Unpacking Peanuts (working its way through the Peanuts canon four months per episode), Talking Nuts (working its way through the canon one month per episode), and It’s a Podcast, Charlie Brown (focused on, but …

Administrative
Well, that was a reaction

Yesterday’s post about socialism accusations being aimed at Peanuts and drawing a parallel to today’s attacks on libraries actually didn’t get much response. Even when I shared a version on social media, I got a mere handful of “likes”. But the one email I got was a doozy. I mean, …

Schulz/Peanuts news
Drawing Peanuts

Matt dropped me a line to show me this video that he had made, digging through every documentary source the he could find to clip footage of Charles Schulz drawing, including Schulz’s own commentary. It does get a bit mesmerizing. I kinda prefer that there was more strip work than …