Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

This is one great movie.I’ve been looking forward to this movie since I saw the 2009 Star Trek movie. OK, so call me a fan boy.  Paramount starting teasing us with trailers at least a year ago.  Before I tell you how much I liked the movie I …

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One of my all-time favorite record albums is the 1969 release “The Street Giveth…And The Street Taketh Away” by Cat Mother and the All Night News Boys. The LP had 11 songs, everyone of them great. It was 50 minutes long, quite long for an LP in those…

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Card #194842010 Topps #387 Josh FieldsComments on the card: I kind of liked the big swoosh on these cards when I first saw them but find the set less to my liking these daysWhen acquired: 2010How acquired: Paid $0.19 for 6 packs of Series 2 bought at T…

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I’ve mentioned before how disappointed I was in 2009 Topps 206. OK, it’s been 4 years so maybe I should get over it, but I keep finding reasons to be disappointed. I was recently scanning 2009 Allen and Ginter cards. While I was doing this I kept notic…

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Comic book movies, you either like ‘em or you don’t. We generally like them so of course we were going to see this. And as comic book movies go, it was pretty good. It’s got everything you expect in an Iron Man movie, a sarcastic Tony Stark, a beautifu…

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As I’ve mentioned before, I’m in the midst of trying to get all the cards I purchased over the past 3 years or so put away. At the rate I’m going, it’s going to take me the rest of the year as I keep getting distracted by new stuff (anyone bought any P…

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Card #357692012 Topps Update #291 Jesus MonteroComments on the card: In the 2012 Update set, Topps featured 2 cards for most rookies. One a regular card, the other with the player’s debut date, like this one.When acquired: 2012How acquired: Paid $0.14 …

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In addition to liking the movie, we also liked the music. Here is the closing credits track featuring M83 with Susanne Sundfor.

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Those of you who read my reviews could have predicted (but probably didn’t give it a thought) that I’d go to see this movie. After all, it’s hard science fiction.  You were right.If you’ve seen the trailers than you know the basic plot. It’s some …

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I was in my teens when the Beach Boys were at their peak. I loved their music and still do. This song is from their 1965 album “Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)”.  It was the flip side to one of their biggest hits “Barbara Ann”.Any song that is 4…

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Here are some more cards from that Fairfield repack where I found the Steve Carlton Giants card.   As I said, I always find stuff I like or need in these things. There were 50 cards in the package that I didn’t have.  The cards I can’t u…

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I like to buy repacks sold under the Fairfield name because there is almost always something of interesting hidden in them. Recently I purchased one of the 100-card packages. I may put up more the cards later but wanted to do a quick post about this on…

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Picking up where we left off yesterday, here’s the rest of the players who have hit a home run in their first at bat in the past 10 years.6/5/08: Mark Worrell. I don’t have any cards for Worrell, probably, because beyond hitting this home run, he didn’…

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Wikipedia is full of lists. One I came across recently is a list of players who hit a home run in their first at bat. I’ve checked some other sources as well and it looks like the Wikipedia list is up-to-date. On average, this is a pretty rare feat. On…

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I was a big Bowie fan in the 1970′s. My first Bowie album was 1971′s Hunky Dory released before Ziggy Stardust, when hardly anyone knew who he was. After 1972′s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars his earlier albums, Space Odd…

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Card # 351992006 Hero Decks Phillies Dave Bancroft Comments on the card: This is a deck of playing cards, each card features a different Phillie from the entire history of the team.When acquired: 2010How acquired: At a sporting goods store in Phil…

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I’ve been busy recently, too busy to get many blog posts done. But not too busy to get tho the movies once in awhile.We saw a lot of trailers for this last summer and then the movie got pulled, we heard, to revamp it for 3D. When trailers started showi…

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March 28, 2008: Trade with White Sox Cards. October 18, 2008: Trade with The Pursuit of 80′s(ness).November 6, 2008: Trade with Cardboard Junkie for Chipper Jones cards. September 24, 2010: 2010 Summer Clearance Trade with Community Gum for Cubs. March…

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The random machine threw up a lot of Astros this time. Card #15822001 Studio #68 Richard HidalgoComments on the card: An OK design for 2001 but very similar to prior years. I think the brand was getting a bit stale.When acquired: Don’t knowHow acquired…

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You may remember this clip from “The Daily Show”.It turns out that there was a whole movie made about moon Nazis, called “Iron Sky”.This was a German-Finnish-Australian collaboration released (although not in the US) in 2012. It is available today on N…

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Earlier in the week I posted about the 1949 Phillies Bowman cards I found at a recent card. I also acquired a 1948 Phillies Bowman card as well. I had posted it on my Facebook page and someone (thanks Paul!) commented that I now had half of the 1948 Bo…

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Card #279152010 Topps 206 Bronze #257 Ryan HowardComments on the card: Thicker parallel to 2012 Topps 206. I was disappointed in this set. It was better than the 2009 version but still not as good as the previous issue in 2002.When acquired: 2011How ac…

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It’s amazing the moods you can capture with just head and shoulder shots. Some are happy  Some are a little mean Some are bearded (is that thing even real?) Some are really happy  Some are wistful Some are unkempt Some are disg…

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Last weekend there was a small card show (about 15 tables) just a few miles from my house. Since such things are rare around here I had to go. I was disappointed at the small size but I found a lot of stuff I wanted from just 2 of the dealers. I’ll hav…

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Here’s some good old-fashioned R&B from a bunch of white English guys. Pretty good. I got ths from a recent podcast from Minnesota Public Radio. James Hunter has been around since 1986 but I’ve never heard of him before.

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I got a pack of 2011 Topps Chrome in one of those 12-pack Fairfield repack boxes. First out of the pack was this.2011 Topps Chrome Heritage Refractors #123 Brent MorelSo here is something that Topps did in 2011 that will be confusing to future collecto…

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I missed the anniversary of the blog again, just like I did last year. I keep thinking that I started this some time in March when it was actually early February. The 5th anniversary of the start of the blog was February 3rd. This will be the 1,090th p…

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This is a recent podcast from KEXP Radio in Seattle. Very 1980s style electronic vibe. Think Band of Seagulls. I always liked this kind of spacey, ethereal stuff. Chromatics was formed in 2001, originally as a punk band but after numerous lineup change…

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Card #201941990 Reading Phillies ProCards #1220 Mark SimsComments on the card: Enormous minor league set put out by ProCards. Nice design. Pretty much all of the cards featured the players posed rather than action shots.When acquired: Don’t know but I …

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I’m going to try and be a little more systematic with these random collection posts. We’ll see how long that lasts.Card #239562002 Donruss Best of Fan Club #138 Billy WagnerComments on the card: I like Billy the Kid’s mean guy expression but I really d…

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Card #78251997 Bowman’s Best Cuts Atomic Refractor #7 Jeff BagwellBowman’s Best was a Topps brand in the lat 1990′s. They recently reintroduced the name as an insert in Bowman and Atomic Refractors are back! These were a hard pull and I had never seen …

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This is from a 2012 CD my daughter brought home from the library called Night Visions by Imagine Dragons. According to Wikipedia the album reached #1 on the alternative rock chart. I don’t listen to the radio so I’d never heard of them before.I was loo…

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When there’s nothing new at the big box store (I got this about a week before 2013 Topps was released), these are always a treat. The three packs almost always have something I want.  The memorabilia card is a total crap shoot, sometimes it’s crap…

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I picked up a blaster, a rack pack and a rack box at Walmart last week. So far, the Targets around here don’t seem to have the product yet.The 2013 Topps design is perhaps the best of the century. The design is simple yet elegant. It works well with bo…

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Last year I did a post on the 2011 Panini Americana set. I had only bought a few packs, really just to see what they looked like. I sort of liked them but wondered why anyone would buy a box of the stuff. Well, that was last year. This year, I actually…

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