What 2012 shall bring
Good morning, and welcome to the future! Remember, you only have three more days to make Mayan calendar jokes, and then we can all move on to something else. The year will not be bereft of new Peanuts books. Of course, there will be two more volumes of The Complete …
2011 in Peanuts books and such
Well, we close out an interesting year here at the AAUGH Blog Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown emerged as an interesting DVD and a surprisingly good graphic novel adaptation thereof. I searched Peanuts for the greatest comic strip kiss of all time. Ten new Peanuts books as part …
Discount Peanuts Collection back in stock
If you didn’t get everything you wanted for Christmas, here’s some good news: the remaindered copies of The Peanuts Collection are back in stock at Amazon for a mere $14 each. (Waddaya mean, that wasn’t everything you wanted for Christmas?)
The final Peanuts specials of the year, I assume
Tonight at the start of prime time, ABC will air Happy New Year, Charlie Brown, with the hour rounded out by She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown. This event is so tumultuous that, at this point, ABC doesn’t even have it on their online schedule, instead showing a blank box …
Last minute gifts
I hope you’re all hunkered down with the ones you love, in joy and in comfort now, whether you’re celebrating a holiday or not. But if it’s the case where you just realized you didn’t get anything for Aunt Greta, and the stores are closed and you’ve run out of …
Time running down, but not out.
It’s still possible to order gifts from Amazon, with overnight shipping, and have them get there by Christmas. But we are in the last few hours. They’ve got the Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown look-and-find book back in stock. And hey, if you bought someone an ebook reader or an MP3 …
Holiday greetings from AAUGH.com!
The actual holiday part of the Holiday Season starts at sundown tonight, with the beginning of Hannukah, so I thought this a good time to put up the holiday greetings recorded by the younger members of the staff here at the corporate campus, the famed AAUGH-dot-Complex: If you see this, …
More Peanuts on TV
If your need for Peanuts on network TV hasn’t been sated by the 5.5 hours of airtime Charlie Brown and crew have commanded this past month, you’re in luck! This Thursday at 9 PM in most markets, ABC will air I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown, a full …
Minty fresh dog breath
You may have seen Peanuts covers on all sorts of magazines over the years, but supportive AAUGH Blog reader Scott pointed me to one most of us would’ve missed: the November issue of Construction Executive. In this case, the front cover is an ad, for a dental plan administered by …
Die Peanuts!
When I first saw the cover to Fröhliche Weihnachten, I got my hopes up. After all, I’ve been hoping to find a foreign book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas for years now; I know that the special depicts a particularly American sensibility for the holiday, but over all these …