Momentous Peanuts
I wonder what it was like to be working your way through the college textbook Fundamentals of Physics, eight hundred and some pages of very tiny and dry-looking type, when you get to the problem set for chapter 8 (“Conservation of Linear Momentum”) and see there on page 150 the …
A Very Pillowy Peanuts Book
A Very Peanuts Christmas is not quite the largest Peanuts book ever in most dimensions… but it is certainly the fluffiest. It is, after all, a pillow book – and not in the traditional sense of a collection of notes meant to describe a period in one’s life. No, this …
One for all you Al Roker completists
The intro writer for the next Complete Peanuts volume has been announced – it’s Al Roker of the Today show. Meanwhile, today’s big Amazon deal is a fairly cheap price on a 47 inch TV. I’m going to feel guilty inviting people to my Super Bowl party in a couple …
A Blanket is a Warm Cover, Charlie Brown
Here we have the cover to the upcoming book Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, which is a graphic novel adaptation of the upcoming Peanuts special of the same name. The book is available for preorder at a discount. Speaking of covers, that temporary cover for the supposed Schulz …
My annual thinking-about-presents post
This would’ve been Schulz’s 88th birthday. I assume you were all out buying him presents early this morning? Me, I skipped the early morning madness. For one thing, there is little that I need in terms of the sort of thins which go on sale. We have computers that work, …
A failure of the most embarrassing sort
I’m sorry. There is so little that you as AAUGH Blog readers expecting. You know I will sometimes misspell, will repeat myself. You know I am capable of a bit of hucksterism. You know I will voice some awkward opinions, and will wield my own sense of “humor” that may …
Some ultra-discounts on Peanuts… and other stuff
The folks at Book Closeouts are running their own equivalent of a Black Friday sales, cutting a lot of prices in half… and that’s in addition to their existing Free Shipping promotion (you need to order at least $35 worth and select the free shipping option at checkout.) Peanuts books …
BBQ from Beyond – continued
I thought that it was bad enough that Simon & Schuster had a catalog page for a (by any sane assumption non-existent) upcoming Schulz book about barbecue. Now they’ve put out a cover image – a holding-the-spot-of-a-cover-image, really – with Schulz’s name on it. I’ve stored a copy on my …
A double dose of Thanksgiving
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving airs Thursday (i.e., “tonight” to most of you when you read this) and then again on Thanksgiving itself, at 8 PM on ABC in most U.S. time zones. To fill out the hour (both times), they’ll be running the “Mayflower Voyagers” episode of the miniseries This …
Barbecue Book from Beyond the Grave!
In the “you can’t believe everything you see in a catalog” department: Simon and Schuster is listing a December release for a new book by Charles M. Schulz: Celebrating America: The Ultimate Guide to America’s 4 Regional Styles of ‘Cue. Alas, it does not appear to be the case that …