Night Owl Cards

I just encountered one of the greatest frustrations of being a writer: Discovering there's a hole in your story. Now, I've been a writer for a two or three decades. I've dealt with story gaps many times. And they've been irksome many times. But the joy of blogging is that a lot of the writing rules that apply in my regular writing life don't apply here. I can start a sentence with "and" or "hey" if I want. I can curse if I want. I can call some baseball player a fat, worthless loser and not be required to support it. But sometimes, even in blogging, there are standards. I just spent a couple of hours scanning cards and writing up what I thought was a pretty cool post. Approximately an hour ago, I was ready to finally hit publish, when I decided to double-check my research one last time. The double-check was going very smoothly until I reached a particular year. And then I realized: I AM MISSING A CARD. I don't mean "missing...

A few minutes ago I finished researching a topic for a blog post. I was going to publish it this morning and it was going to be pretty good. I scanned all the appropriate cards and looked into the facts about each card and the individual pictured on each one. Then I did one final bit of research ... and the post fell apart. The premise to my post was false. It turns out the player that I thought was dead is actually alive . Oops. So here I sit, with a modest amount of work wasted and nothing to post. Fortunately, I have lots and lots of cards that people sent me, right? Cards From The Quarry operator hiflew sent me yet another package recently. In that package were these two needs: 1999 Skybox Thunder is such a terrific set because you can make fun of it all day. Unlike my aborted post, the good folks at Skybox didn't realize the error of their ways and actually went ahead and published their wrongness for everyone to read. So, let's read: On the...