Night Owl Cards

A lot has been happening at Night Owl Headquarters (and the reason that posts continue to be more sporadic than usual). The creation of the new card room has spurred on quite a few other card-related projects that are occupying my free time. Not only is work continuing on the card room (well, when cash is available), but I've just completed the weeks-long project of updating all of my Dodgers binders so I would have an exact count on how many binders for storage purposes. Current Dodgers binders count: 28. I've also started the great Dodgers dupes box sort that takes around a month -- allowing for "this is so tedious " breaks, of course. And I've been working on my latest Beckett Vintage Magazine article, which takes quite a bit of research within my own collection. Finally, I decided to update a couple of my neglected modern Dodgers want lists as well. The team want lists for 2019 and 2018 are fairly complete for now, or as complete as I want them to b...

We bloggers often characterize folks who comment or trade but don't have a card blog of their own as "readers." It's an odd description. The bloggers who comment and trade are readers, too. At least I assume they're reading my stuff. But how else am I going to describe the non-blogger? I can't say "non-blogger Art sent me some cards." That sounds weird. And a little accusatory. I can't say, "this dude who I don't know contacted me and wanted to trade me some cards." That's true, but it's also awkward. "Reader" is a little catch-all phrase and it also makes me feel good. This person is reading my stuff even though he doesn't have a blog of his own, even though he is not invested in the online card community. He just wants to read my stuff! If you have a successful blog, you need these kind of "readers." They give your blog the stamp of approval. I am fortunate enough to see quite a few ...