Night Owl Cards

  I have mentioned many times how far away I live from everything. People tend to consider small cities or towns as "great places to raise a family" when they're trying to think of nice things to say. And, yeah, that's true, but you could say that about dozens upon dozens of upstate New York towns, except those towns are actually CLOSE TO THINGS. Where I live has relatively low crime and almost no traffic, but that's where the positives end. I'm still here only because the job is decent and I hate uprooting myself, because, dammit, it's a chore when almost nothing comes to you -- you have to go there . Yup, we've reached another card show report. This is the one that I thought earlier I wouldn't be able to make, which would be two card shows missed in consecutive months. But I completed the work project in record time and I was officially free yesterday to travel to the show. It took sweating out the weather a bit. There was snow in the forecast --...

The Northeast isn't the most culturally diverse place in the country if you don't live in one of the big cities. I've been surrounded by dorky white people all my life. I'm not complaining. After all, I'm one of the DWP myself (what tipped you off? The love of baseball, trading cards or newspapers?). It's just that different cultures take a long time to reach my area, even in the online age. For example, the operator of The Chronicles of Fuji takes time out on his blog to appropriately thank people who have sent him cards. It's an enormous gesture that doesn't get enough credit. Included in the titles of those posts is a familiar, very common, Japanese phrase, "domo arigato," which means "thank you very much" in Japanese. But that is not what I think of when I hear that phrase. If you're a DWP like me, then you already know what I'm going to write. This is what it reminds me of: The most over-the-top arena roc...