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 ...

I periodically correspond about cards with people who are not regular commenters on this site. Most of them are insanely complimentary, which both stuns me while at the same time prompts my ego to run out in the street and scream "YOU SEE???!!! ... I TOLD YOU! ... YOU PEOPLE ARE FOOLS !" Also periodically, those same people send me cards. As if compliments weren't enough. One particularly generous person is named Matt. He has a thing for oddball cards, and he sent me this Nu-Card Scoops card from 1961. I have been aware of this set since I was a wee collector, having seen them in the first price guides and mail order catalogs and the like. But this is the first time I've ever been able to own one. This card is great for probably an infinite amount of reasons. But let me try to list some of them: 1. It's a "moment-in-time" card. In fact, the whole set is made up of moment-in-time cards. You know those "Career Day" cards in Topps S...