Card Draft II Countdown Part 1: 25-16 + Extras

With Scott Crawford on Cards‘ Trade Bait Draft III probably happening tonight (If you got $20 or a good trade to offer him, and an hour or two free, hit him up!), I thought it was way past time to start showing off my stuff from my first go-round in his draft’s second iteration.  With […]

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It seems nobody out there likes Panini’s Prizm baseball offering.  Well, despite the dubious 2012-ness of them (c’mon Panini, these came out even later in 2013 than 2009 UD Signature Stars came out in 2010), I love the things.  The lack of logos don’t bother me any.  The design is quality, and the cards are […]

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Well, the posts are just slowly trickling in, but trickling in they still are.  Here are a few of my favorite pro graps cards from my collection for your approval. Booker is my favorite wrestler of all-time, and this is my best card of him.  Despite having a lot of autographs (as wrestlers go anyway) [...]

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Which was more than a month ago, but hey, I gotta get back in the habit of posting (and just writing in general) again.  Nothing I post is even gonna be as timely as this anytime soon, and I’m buried in tons of stuff needing to be scanned again.  So just enjoy the pretty pictures [...]

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For the entirety of 2013 I have weighed in comfortably below 200 lbs (as low as 189).  I’ve been running (maybe more like leisurely paced jogging, but still) since sometime last summer, when I realized I could make the entire 2+ mile trip to my parents without stopping.  I eat… well, not healthily.  Healthy food [...]

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I’m slowly coming back, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been working quite a bit behind the scenes.  I even started bindering stuff up recently.  Here’s something rather nice from the wrestling/non-sport binder: Classy as balls…

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*pokes head out, sees own shadow, so six more weeks of no blogging, but leaves a little art on the way out* The voice of a forgotten blogger echoes on the wind… “Until our next,” he whispers. “Soon we will be together again.”

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Wow, where does the time go?  Life distracted me I guess.  It wasn’t for bad things for once at least though, so no worries.  Just beautiful distraction… Anyway, my last three orders of Diamond Giveaway cards have arrived.  So,  here’s a quick breakdown by year. 1960: 3- 13 Wally Post (Keeper), 60 Gus Triandos (Keeper), [...]

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From a loose pack anyway. Didn’t feel like saying much today, but still felt the need to post something for some reason, so there ya go.  Start the bidding (err, trade offers), Dodgers fans!  I’m sure someone out there in the ether has use for Mr. Cobb here too. That’s all I got for today. [...]

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I’ve been playing with the direction of my collection again.  After seeing a post on someone else’s blog, I was inspired to try something a little different.  Thus, Single Page Sensations was born.  As I said on that page, I think collecting single pages of random players and sets feeds into my random scatterbrained collecting habits while [...]

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Hey there, stately gents and comely wenches, time for a trading post!  These lovely cards come to me from my most frequent trading partner Shot Not Taken, if the title didn’t clue you in. The above Lochte started things, but when Ray bought basically the saddest pack of SportKings in the world, the deal fell into [...]

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Just a quick thing tonight.  I know a few people out there know how to put together their own relic cards, so can any of y’all teach me how to do it?  Like a step-by-step breakdown of the process and materials needed or something?  I have a cool idea, but it’s something I need to [...]

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As mentioned last time, my first Diamond Giveaway order (of four full 25-card orders total) arrived last Friday.  It was the free one, and contained most of my Diamond Die-Cuts. So here they are now.  Enjoy. They are nice & shiny all over.  The only thing that could make them better is if they were [...]

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So my first Diamond Giveaway order arrived, and while it was mostly Die-Cuts, I did pick up a little vintage this time too.  Have a look, won’t you? The card is beat to heck all over, easily the worst of the bunch.  Yet for some reason all the creases & things are easy to miss [...]

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I can do this And I will do this And I should have done this A long time ago Fuck the pride And fuck the pain The tedium and the strain This is who I am What I’m meant to do Who I’m meant to be I am a writer I write for myself I [...]

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Picked this beauty up on COMC not too long ago for around $2.40.  I already have two Topps Ryno RCs, so now I just need OPC and Donruss I think.  I’ll never be able to afford the TCMA card.  Also, those early-’80s Cubs unis are ridiculous, but still better than the fugly White Sox’ early-’70s [...]

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Yeah, that’s a terrible idea.  But The Mary Sue already did it, and it turned out to be not so bad.  So because I’m astoundingly bored at the moment, I’m gonna try too.  I’ll be a little more free-wheeling with my choices in places though.  Let’s do it. Jean-Luc Picard- Idris Elba or Eddie George Riker- [...]

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Until our next…

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Real people seem to come out better in Watercolor pencils, though skin tones are still the hardest thing.  If you want to see Hank Aaron before he gets to Dayf, check the Home Run King out on my deviantART (like 10-20 minutes after I post this post EDIT: It’s up).  Do keep in mind, however, if [...]

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And now for the stuff I’m keeping from those 40%-off 2011 Topps Series Two blasters. I am not entirely displeased with these blasters.  Got a nice stack of things I needed & tons of inserty trade bait.  Base Topps blasters offer so much more random fun crap than probably just about any others out there. [...]

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From Walmart: That is all.  Everything not claimed by Tradercracks is available.  Thanks for stopping by! Spin the wheel, make the deal…

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They finally made to my K-Mart!  Picked up a couple, gonna pick up another next time I need to go there.  Here’s the good stuff from these two. 20 cards, an insert, a parallel and a jersey per blaster.  Not bad for $5.99 apiece!  It makes pulling a lame jersey a lot easier to swallow. [...]

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I don’t know if this is brilliant or ridiculous, I just know I needed some of the pages for bigger cards and the single one for one of my bigger Raven sketches.  You’d think if these were specifically for coupons for non-card collecting women/parents/whoever does the brunt of the shopping/whatever/etc, that they would be somewhere [...]

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Yeah, I got nuthin’.  Super tired and the jackass that lives above me has been stomping around like the asshole they are for at least an hour (it is 7:39am as I write these very words).  Not acceptable.  So just enjoy the Koos and try to ignore the loud violence I’ll be inflicting on my [...]

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Been slowly starting to churn out some sketch cards again recently.  Rather than completing old ones in need of coloring, and even inks in some cases, I drew some new ones (actually, in addition to more work on a couple of these, I’ve also colored three older cards since I put this post together).  The [...]

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Oh yeah!  Time to post these bad mamma-jammas up!  All from my latest order from COMC.  Hawk & Hurt & Monte Irvin aren’t available, but the rest can be had, though I’m a bit partial to the Kaline, Reggie, Feller, & McCovey.  As such, they will slightly-to-much be harder to get than the rest.  I’m [...]

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Yes!  I’m back, baby.  Now let’s see if I remember how to do this. Finally out from under stupid apartment inspection BS (until fall at least), so I can concentrate things I actually give a damn about.  As such, I’ve done a boatload of scanning and editing to managable chunks, been updating my lists behind [...]

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Got these bad mamma-jammas (mostly) inked a few weeks ago.  Have a look, won’t you? I have no idea when it’ll be coming, but trade bait will be coming next.  Maybe.  Until then, back to the drawing board. Drawing in the Dark…

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I got seven packages sent out on Feb. 29th.  Hopefully they’ve all reached their destinations by now.  In the meantime, I finally broke out of the writing funk briefly and got nearly 1000 words in on Missionworks one night, but mostly I’ve been getting my art on.  And it has mostly just been one big [...]

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That’s how it goes for me it seems.  Get up a head of steam and get a lot of posts in over a week or two and then flame out.  But I’m still here!  My plans to get a lot of stuff sent earlier in the month were kinda botched by a combination of my [...]

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Here are the last of the keepers from my latest Check Out My Cards order/binge. My COMC keepers, ladies & gentlemen.  Stay tuned for trade bait and the inks for my latest pair of Marvel sketch covers.  Thank you and goodnight. Until our next…

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This is why I said these cards deserved their own post.  I’m not that hardcore into vintage cards, cuz I’m usually too poor to partake (this also precludes me from high end cards mostly too), but seriously, Frank Robinson.  For less than $3 combined.  I don’t even need to say anything else.  Just enjoy… That [...]

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Heyo, Loneycakes (yeah, that better not stick) back with the Cubs and Bears portion of the latest COMC order. The Gale Sayers scanned rather nicely, but still doesn’t do the card the justice it deserves.  Easily amongst the 10 best I picked up this time around. The Pog card is kind of a mess.  Think [...]

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(Un)Fashionably late to the party as usual, here’s my mercifully quick look at 2012 Topps series 1. Basically, it boils down to one thing, and one thing only, for me.  This set drives me crazy on an OCD level, so I won’t be buying any more of it.  Here is the thing that bugs me [...]

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