Cheap books and freeee books
Our friends at Book Closeouts (well, my friends at Book Closeouts, by which I mean that they send me money from time to time…) just added a bunch of copies of the strip collection Snoopy’s Guide to the Writing Life to their inventory, and they’re running a pretty good deal …
Get $3 back on your Peanuts DVDs
I was in the supermarket today, and noticed that the box of Cap’n Crunch’s Christmas Crunch had a deal on it — send in the appropriate proofs of purchase for one of the current, Warner Home Video edition of the Peanuts DVDs, and get $3 back. Of course, you have …
What are AAUGHers buying?
You missed it, didn’t you? Beethoven’s birthday was yesterday, and you forgot to get your gifts out in time! Tsk, tsk. Don’t let the same thing happen for Christmas or Hannukah. And as Amazon says today’s the last day for you to place an in-stock order with Amazon and have …
Charlie Brown’s Arrested Development
I think I blogged about this when it aired years back, but now I can actually embed it. It’s the Arrested Development episode “Good Grief”. While the title reflects the episode in several ways, it does include some nicely-done Peanuts references, not via dialog but via music cues and visuals. …
Finding the bargains
So here I am, on the same block as a Best Buy, a block away from a Target, two blocks from an Office Depot. Seems like I’m ideally situated to exploit all the day-after-Thanksgiving earlybird sales this year, right? Well, no. Not only is there nothing I’m really looking for …
AAUGH.com and gift-giving, 2008
I stopped by a Wendy’s hamburger joint today, and discovered that their kids meals at this point come with Peanuts toys. Theres a stuffed Snoopy backpack clip, a stuffed Woodstock keychain, a frame with comic strips so you can mix-and-match panels, a Snoopy bobblehead, and then something called the Peanuts …
little Peanutsy bits
In the US, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs Tuesday on ABC. Next Sunday, November 2nd, Fox will be airing the 19th annual Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror special… and this year’s includes their parody of The Great Pumpkin. A friend of the blog points us toward a new Snoopy …
Peanutsudoku and more
Looking over the latest Peanuts books on hand: The biggest note is that the first printing of The Complete Peanuts volume 9 has a flaw; on page 53, they run the May 1st, 1967 strip twice, leaving out May 3rd. This will be fixed with the second printing, and volume …
Yes, Far Side is not Peanuts
I know there are some general comic strip fans reading this, and since this is a one-day-only deal, I couldn’t resist: The Complete Far Side, normally $150 (it’s a boxed hardcover set) and normally not eligible for free shipping, today only $67.50 and eligible for free Super Saver Shipping in …
minor newsy bits
The upcoming new book edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas now has a cover. Some day, I’ll really have to do a chart of all the formats and editions that have come out under this title… Speaking of A Charlie Brown Christmas book – the huge discount available on the …