Night Owl Cards

I keep forgetting to report the results from the most recent "Define the Design" post. I know everyone has been waiting by the keyboard in anticipation, so I'll get this done so you can move on with your lives. Not a lot of time (again), so I'll go through it quick. In the previous "define" post I brought up card sets from 1989 and 1990 Classic, 1990 and 1993 Leaf, 1992 and 1993 Pinnacle, 1995 Pacific and 2000 Pacific Revolution. I named '93 Leaf, '93 Pinnacle and '95 Pacific already. I also named 1990 Classic. Several folks want me to name it after those ghastly pants from the early 1990s, Zubaz. Because of the colorful stripes. I agree there are similarities, but I refuse to recognize that affront to fashion. So I'm sticking with the "Saved By the Bell set." It's a much happier name from the same time period. Football players' and weightlifters' inability to dress themselves is maddening. But you...

I wish every set was as easy to name as the 1990 Classic baseball set. Not only is it easy to name but it has a name that describes its era perfectly. That's what I want for every set -- to have a name that evokes a period in pop culture history. Cards produce memories, of a time, of a place, and a name for a set would help capture that period easily and forever. But, unfortunately, most sets aren't as easily labeled as 1990 Classic. With its wild, bright colors and its crazy, zig-zag, tiger patterns ... ... there is really only one name for this set. The "Saved By the Bell" set. I think almost everyone agrees with that. Even someone like me who was in his mid-20s when kiddies were watching Zack, Kelly, Screech and Mr. Belding. Such an easy set to name. Other Classic sets? Not so easy. I don't know what to name the 1989 Classic set. "Silver-to-Magenta Gradiant Set"? It doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. And that...