The AAUGH Blog Podcast: Gary Burghoff (!!!)

Gary Burghoff, who was the original Charlie Brown in the off-Broadway smash You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown joins us to discuss that, as well as his own venture into comic strips, which in a way is the flip-side of Peanuts… instead of just focusing on kids, Gary Burghoff’s The Home (available in print and ebook from Bear Manor Media, who also publish Burghoff’s autobiography) just focuses on a group senior citizens, colorful retirees who form a retirement commune.

Share the news!
Classic finds
The expensive book I’m glad I bought, the discount book I kinda wish I hadn’t

Two books joined the AAUGH.com Reference Library today, neither of them new volumes. One of them brought grins, one brought a loud meh. Four years back I noted that there was a book out called Man’s Best Friend, documenting a gallery show by Kaws, an artist some of whose work …

General
The 75th Anniversary

I sat down to write a nice, long something on the 75th anniversary of Peanuts, because it’s a 75th anniversary, because this is the official marking of Peanuts being a cultural presence after the end of the strip for half as long as the strip was being made, and because …

fashion
AAUGH does Vegas

Your favorite AAUGH Blogger spent a couple nights this week in lovely Las Vegas, the town that demonstrates what humankind can achieve if we don’t stop and say “should we? Really?” I was there on business, but as the business was attending the Las Vegas Souvenir Convention, the leading tchotchke …