Night Owl Cards

Living in the US of A, we take variety for granted. Since the days when I was a kid, the variety of consumer goods and entertainment options has grown exponentially. Yet, ungrateful bastards that we are, we forgot how good we have it ... and get bored and want something new. It happens to me sometimes. Fortunately, I live very close to another country. It's not as exotic as if I lived next to Sri Lanka or Madagascar, but Canada does provide some unusual mind candy for a U.S. citizen living 20 miles from the Canadian border. I can watch curling on my TV any month of the winter and Coffee Crisp remains one of my favorite candy bars. (Sadly, thanks to stricter border regulations, it's been too long since I had a Montreal bagel or gone to a Swiss Chalet). To me -- and I'm sure this is interesting to Canadian shoppers who come into our stores every day because of the sheer variety in America -- Canada is a source of variety. It has something interesting when I'm tir...

Some cards arrived at the house recently from blog reader and frequent commenter Stubby, who provides a needed and often insightful perspective on various card topics, but especially cards from the '60s, because I'm not Don Draper, man. The cards fell into two distinct categories and they're so different that I must break them up into separate posts. I will start with the totally unexpected cards first. Yes, the Dodgers cards were the unexpected ones. Stubby went traveling through my want lists, which is the only way to fly. And he found stuff that would've taken me years to reach on that perpetual priority list in my head. For example, Panini products, both up there, and down here. You all know my stance on Panini, but I'll suspend the criticism just this one time to mention that the Roy Campanella Elite Giants card is pretty awesome. A larger photo would have been nice (the design, Panini, the design), but I'm happy to have that card. Anothe...