Night Owl Cards

I finally decided that maybe I shouldn't be going into the office all the time with everyone freaking out about being around other human beings. I'm the sports editor for a newspaper so people need to see me in person quite often. Editors, photographers, staff writers, and all those behind-the-scenes people that folks who aren't in the business never think about. (Do you wonder why the sports section is sometimes 3 pages and sometimes 6 pages? Well, don't come to me. That's not my call. Never has been. It's some other person's job to decide space in a newspaper and weirdly over the last 30 years that person never knows anything about sports). But there isn't much sports going on right now so the demands on my physical appearance are low. I was showing up out of habit as I put out the sports section from my office computer as normal but it was gnawing at me, not just because of the virus, but merely wondering: "If I had to, could I do all this...

I don't really like critiquing artists. As someone who works in a creative field and thinks creative thoughts, I've always respected not only painters and drawers but musicians, comics, writers -- of course -- and anyone who creates something and then, probably against their best interests, presents it to the world. These are my people. And they get far too much criticism when compared with other career pursuits. That said, I don't like the Topps' Gallery reboot. It's taken me three years to settle definitively on an opinion of this set. But I'm sure now. Gallery is not appealing. Part of the reason is art sets are much too inconsistent for me to collect. I am always willing to give a baseball card art set a chance -- because I like those creative types -- but as soon as I see likenesses that don't work or images that are vastly different from each other, I'm done. Sometimes I'll even critique the card, point out that the picture doesn...