Night Owl Cards

  The internet has a great way of providing something you have always wanted, or never even imagined possible ... and then eventually ruining it.   I experienced this great disappointment in duplicate in 2025. Two sites, so entrenched in my entertainment preferences for so many years, had evolved so far away from what I had valued them for that I could no longer ignore it.   I am struggling now to separate myself from one of them, which is Spotify. I have used the streaming site daily for the last four or five years, it has been where I discover new music and how I determine my favorite songs and albums of the year. So getting away from that and finding a new option (I'm trying Tidal right now but it is not cooperating with me) is going to take awhile.   The other site I hope is more of a clean break. In fact, I have already declared in multiple places that I have made my final order on COMC. I hope that remains true.   I have been ordering from COMC since late ...

  This is my 21st card autographed by Ron Cey. I don't really try to obtain Cey autographs anymore. I own most of his certified autographs and I'm just not down with the TTM ritual any longer. If I still sent autograph requests through the mail I'd have to pay a fee now for a Cey signature. He used to hand them out for free and return them in record time. Paying a price wouldn't stop me if I was still into it. There are still plenty of cards that could use a Cey signature: 1974, 1979, 1981 and 1982 Topps, 1983 Donruss, 1982 and 1983 Fleer. If a card company puts out a new Cey autograph, such as Topps' recent Archives Fan Favorites offerings in 2017 and 2018, I will look into obtaining those, and I have at times. But I'm pretty casual about it. I'll also take a Cey autographed card that I don't own if someone sends it. The above card arrived from John ( @gortexturban on Twitter). And I needed it. But how many autographs of one individual player is too ma...