Doonesbury ended a week-long run on the topic of the now-failed rapture prediction with a tip of the hat to Peanuts.

I just completed my run of Peanuts appearance in the comic book series Sparkle Comics, which wasn’t that tricky to do – they were only in one issue. Peanuts started in issue 33 (Feb-Mar 1954), and the series never saw an issue 34. Sparkle was published by United Features Syndicate, …

As the supposed zero hour approaches, I realized I should’ve posted this earlier:

Here in the AAUGH.com Reference Library, we have a section for “Not That Charlie Brown”, which has a couple of biographies of people named Charlie Brown in it. (We do keep the biography of Charlie Brown, Schulz’s co-worker for whom he named the character, separate.) Now I find that released-but-temporarily-unavailable …

I managed to get my copy of the Wendy’s Kids’ Meal book My Favorite Colors a couple days earlier than expected. (In my experience, you don’t even have to walk into the Wendy’s to find when they have the new toys in stock; the ad sheet for the toys their …

The book coming in the next few days to a Wendy’s Kid-Under-3 Meal near you (and, I hope, near me), My Favorite Colors, is not listed as being by Schulz. Rather, it’s by Snoopy himself. In most cases, this would merely be a curiosity, but in this case, it’s problematic. …

Yes, yes, it’s one thing to go after big professional publishers, but it’s cheap to go after some little guy trying to exploit the public domain and the creative commons for their imperfections. What can I say, I’m cheap. And thus I’ll point out that Mr. Schultz-with-a-T has popped up …

So in the wake of recent posts, I’ve been discussing Bad Schulz Biographies with several people, and in a couple instances the topic led to a book I’ve discussed earlier – there’s a company that packages Wikipedia articles (all readable for free) into print-on-demand books (something that Wikipedia will do …

When I reviewed the new worst Schulz biography – the one which misspells his name on the cover — I linked to some previous reviews of bad Schulz biographies designed to fill the shelves of school libraries. In doing so, I realize that my review of one such biography which …

You may not know it from meeting me, but I’m a shy guy. Particularly when it comes to the phone. I feel awkward and uncertain, and try to avoid calling just about anyone whom I’m not already close to. But I’m also a very curious guy about certain things. If …