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Snoopy and Star Trek

With the new Star Trek movie coming out tomorrow, I thought I’d take a look at this particularly surprising Star Trek reference. What makes it so interesting? The date. This is the strip from February 7th, 1972. That means that it was years after the original Star Trek series had …

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New releases

The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972

So, today I was supposed to be packing up my office, including boxing up the AAUGH.com reference library, preparing for a move. But with life being hectic, I realized I hadn’t actually read the recently released The Complete Peanuts: 1971-1972, so I reckoned that better than spend hours packing, I …

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Classic finds

Not-so-new review.

When I reviewed The Doctor is In in my last blog entry, I thought that I was reviewing a new book. But according to the publisher’s website., the book was released on January 20, 1968! (I really should do a screen capture to prove it says that, but I’m feeling …

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New releases

A box, a book, and a can

A while back, I promised you a review that included a book where one quotation mark was left off of the quote at the end of the book. This is that review! Worry no more. The Doctor is In is a boxed set of one can with a coin slot …

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Upcoming releases

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

Here’s a first look at the cover for the upcoming adaptation of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown. It’s got stickers!

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Discounts

Reunion Rebate

For those of you ordering Snoopy’s Reunion or any other of the recent DVD releases, you may want to know that Coco’s Bakery Restaurants are offering some sort of $3 mail-in rebate on it. Of course, you have to go to the restaurant for details… and if you’re not in …

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Now shipping

Beagleflash!

The DVD of Snoopy’s Reunion is now shipping. And don’t overlook the second special on it, It’s Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown. I’ve found that there’s a surprising amount of love out there for the Flashbeagle. And hey, as long as I’m posting – if any of you are comic book people …

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Administrative

The ultimate Charlie Brown Christmas gift

AAUGH Blog reader Mark points us to this unique Charlie Brown Christmas item that’s on eBay, in a sale ending in just a few hours: an (apparently) actual script for A Charlie Brown Christmas that was used for rewrites, paste-ups, and the like. At $2500 Buy It Now, this is …

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Classic finds

At least now I have Charlie Brown’s autograph

Review: It’s not that Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown Remembers Atlanta: Memoirs of a Public Man is an as-told-to book by an Atlanta politician. Published in 1982, with both a full-color image and a fold-out page with all the members of the all-white, all-male Georgia Senate of the late 1950s and …

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New releases

I’m in a flinching mode

Maybe because I’ve done two eight-hour drives in the past three days, but I find myself in a picky mood. And having come back from my travels to find two Peanuts books waiting for me, I may be turning an extra picky eye on them. The first one I looked …

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