Peanuts Philosophers

For a while, we’ve had something called Peanuts Philosophers listed as coming next March. Well, that’s still the case, but now I know what it is – it’s a reprint of a cute little set of books (Snoopy’s Philosophy, The Wisdom of Charlie Brown, The World According to Lucy, and Linus on Life) from Hallmark, each with a handful of strips reprinted at one panel per page. When these first came out in 1968, they were $1.25 apiece. Now, you can get a boxed set of all four for under $9. Perhaps the last forty-some year of inflation hasn’t been as big as suspected.

A box o books
A box o' books
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Shipping Pumpkin and Hare Krishnas

First, let me note that the Great Pumpkin Carols book which I talked about a while back is now available for preorder. And while I’m doing that, I’ll remind you both that when you preorder, Amazon will give you the lowest price they list the book for between now and when …

New releases
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Upcoming releases
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