Night Owl Cards

  Unbeknownst to many of you, the 1993 Upper Deck set blog debuted this morning. If you could be so kind to put it on your reading lists and blog rolls (if you can, that is, I'm having issues posting it to my own blog roll). I am aware that set blogs are rather out-of-fashion. Heck, card blogging in general is. The set blog is pretty much what kicked off the card blogging boom, particularly the 1988 Topps blog . I know it's one of the first blogs I ever read, along with The Baseball Card Blog and Cardboard Junkie. So we're talking ancient territory in internet terms. But as a set-builder, I admire immensely the appreciation of each card and can't think of a better way to demonstrate that but through a post about each and every one. You will find no other medium that does that better, nothing on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram. Because fewer people understand that kind of treatment, this set blog will be different than my other ones (Yup, this will be my fourth ...

Later tonight I will kick off the Traded set portion of the 1985 Topps set over on my 1985 Topps blog . After completing the 792-card flagship set the other day I realized that I've now written three set blogs from start to finish, with the 1975 Topps set first, followed by the 1971 Topps set and now the 1985 Topps set. I don't think anyone has done that before. That would impress a few people back when blogs were king and set-blogging was fashionable. Nobody cares much anymore, or a lot less people do anyway. That's not the reason why I'm going to stop doing set blogs once the '85 Traded set is done though. I'm just tired of running multiple blogs. I've been doing that for more than eight years now and it's time to move on to other interests. Night Owl Cards isn't going anywhere, don't you worry. The need to write remains strong. There is always the slight possibility that after I've wrapped up the '85 set and I'm workin...