Peanuts Treasury and other discounts
Normally I steer folks to Amazon for the books as they have the most stuff, but Barnes & Noble (who, yes, also give me a kickback) is running a sale (cutting about an additional 10% off most prices) and has a few things that can’t be found at Amazon. BN …
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales/Is This Goodbye DVD
A while back, I got a tidbit of info indicating that the CVS Pharmacy chain was going to have an exclusive Peanuts DVD, and passed that info to Peanuts video guru Scott McGuire (author of a fine online guide to the specials), who got back to me with the details …
Gained in translation
So last night I was looking at the Peanuts strips in the Hebrew language primer Olam Gadol – Bet (what, weren’t you?), and I find the above strip. Now, Hebrew reads from right to left, so obviously they reordered the panels so that the first one is on the right. …
Celebrating Peanuts: a review
The big thick 60th anniversary book Celebrating Peanuts is out, and I gotta say that if you gotta have just one Peanuts book, this is a pretty good choice. (Then again, if you gotta have just one Peanuts book, this is an odd blog for you to be reading. But …
Now shipping: Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years
Now shipping: Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years, the big thick anniversary strip collection that lists for $75, but you can now order with more than $25 off of that.
an expensive booklet, with free DVDs?
So I’m in Costco the other day, and they’ve got the Peanuts Holiday Collection, the boxed set of three of the current-edition DVDs (It’s the Great Pumpkin, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and A Charlie Brown Christmas), and I notice it’s got a sticker on it. Not the price sticker (although …
A double-dose of Pumpkin
I am now seeing reports that ABC has added another airing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown for this year, airing it in a half-hour slot on the 28th in addition to the hour long slot of Peanuts goodness the night before. Their airing it instead of an episode …
Linus and Lucy 2: The Revenge!
AAUGH Blog reader Dave from Nashville steered me to some tweets from George Winston, who recorded the very successful album Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi. Looks like his next album will return to that well, and will be called Love Will Come: The Music of Vince Guaraldi …
Planning ahead for next Halloween!
You can now preorder next year’s adaptation of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown… which seems likely to be the same adaptation as the one currenty available in Hallmark stores. You can also preorder Sparky: The Live and Art of Charles Schulz, the bio-for-kids shipping in March. As I’ve noted …