I post a message like this each year about this time, and those who feel the desire to tune it out should feel free. Still, I promise that I’m doing this without looking at the past iterations, so I may accidentally do something fresh and do it in the fresh …

I’ve been doing the AAUGH Blog (in blog or its original email newsletter form) for almost 16 years now, and my situation has changed in various ways during that time. As it’s a blog with opinion, recommendations, and occasional snark, I find it in my ethical interest to post, from …

I do roughly this same message every year, so let me start with the too-long-didn’t-read version, and then we can get into the subsections: Gifts are good, but they’re rarely important, nor the best way to show that you care. Gifts of charitable donations are a very good form of …

My previous posting had said that the Peanuts Artist’s Edition would be reprinting art at its original dimensions. Unfortunately, that is not the case; due to the large size that Schulz worked at, the publisher has chosen to vary from the standard with such books and reduce the work when …

Folks who have been reading the AAUGH Blog for a while will recognize the basic shape of this post. I run something like this most years. If it seems to be coming a little early this year, that’s because the holidays actually start early this year. That’s right, Chanukah actually …

And now AAUGH Blog reader Ben is telling me that he’s been in contact with Amazon, and they say that the listing of devices for the free Peanuts book is in error; it won’t work with Cloud Reader, it will only work with certain Kindle models (Touch and Fire HD), …

When I said of the free Kindle edition of  It’s a Dog’s Life, Snoopy that “you don’t need a Kindle device to read it; there are Kindle programs for most computers, for the iPad and other tablets, etc.“, I was only partly, fuzzily right. This book, while readable by the …

Well, I asked for your input on whether I should cover newsy items that are Peanuts-related, and got more responses for that than for possibly anything that I’ve asked on the blog.. and unfortunately for me the answers were all across the map. Some people really want everything vaguely Peanuts-related …

Even though the focus of this blog is specifically Schulz books, I obviously zoom out in to more general Peanuts topics, interesting things that come up. Which puts me in a dilemma from time to time, when the topic seems more of tawdry interest than key to what I’m pursuing. …

Those of you who have been reading the AAUGH Blog for a while can probably sit back and scan or skip this one. For those of you who are new… well, I generally do this once a year. The holidays impend. Hannukah is just a couple weeks away, Christmas about …