The Pastor is In; the book is not out.
As best as I can tell, the book that I am holding does not exist. What I mean is that, other than the route through which I got it, I can find no other mention of it on the Internet. However, it is a 2013 book published by Hallmark, and …
Upcoming stuff
They’ve released this new cover image for the first volume of Peanuts Every Sunday, the planned ten-volume set reprinting all of the Sunday Peanuts strips in color. This is a common part of the process, having a cover that looks good enough to go out and get the ball rolling, …
Taxes done, it’s cookie time!
I received a notice from Amazon: We’re writing about the order you placed on July 04, 2013. Unfortunately, the release date for the item(s) listed below has changed, and we need to provide you with a new delivery estimate based on the new release date: Brown, Charlie “Peanuts Christmas Cookie …
Was Peanuts the MTV of the print generation?
Friend-of-the-AAUGH-blog Jim has this question: I recall once reading an article that suggested that Beethoven’s popularity and place in the classical pantheon was far less prominent, before Schulz introduced Schroeder and his penchant for the composer. Being vastly ignorant of classical music myself, I couldn’t at the time know how …
I have no issue with an issue not having me
I just learned that issue 11 of the Kaboom! Peanuts comic book series (coming out later this month) will not have any of my stories in it. I’m only pointing this out because I didn’t want anyone buying the issue, not seeing a story from me, and assuming that I’m …
Will the Peanuts movie stand out from the crowd?
There’s a new Peanuts film coming up in 2015, and for me the real question is will it seem very Peanuts-y, or more in the modern style of kid-aimed animated films? I’m certainly hoping for the former, and think there’s a good chance we’ll get it. Here’s a good article …
Racing Peanuts
The latest thing in the AAUGH.com Reference Library isn’t a reading item. It’s a car; specifically, a limited edition 1/24 scale model of Tony Stewart’s Great Pumpkin-themed stock car, which he drove in the Sharpie 500 in August, 2002. It’s a combination of one thing I am heavily into – …
Exemplary Peanuts
One expects to find Peanuts discussions in all sorts of places, to the degree that while I’m tempted to say it was a surprise to find the topic in The Background of Social Reality: Selected Contributions from the Inaugural Meeting of ENSO (that’s the European Network on Social Ontology), I’d be …
Why Woodstock was funny
I ran across an old article today in which someone put down the introduction of the name Woodstock as an unfunny gag, that simply giving the little bird a name from hippie culture does not make it funny. However, that commentary was written in 2007, more than a third of …
What a Peanuts book collector becomes
I just found out (actually, I think this was pointed out to me once before, but I forgot) that the British edition of The Complete Peanuts: 1959-1960 has an introduction not by Whoopi Goldberg (as the US edition has), but by Russell T. Davies. Davies, who talks (among other things) …