This isn't a post about the 1962 album by Lightnin' Hopkins, titled "Mojo Hand." It's a post about Jay's blog, "The Mojo Hand," where I won myself more than two blasters worth of 2009 Allen & Ginter in the The Big Allen & Ginter Giveaway!I will tell you with no tinge of embarrassment that I do not have the mental capacity or patience for guessing games. I steer clear of contests that involve a jar full of jelly beans. But somehow, for probably the first time in my life, I guessed the correct number. This time it was I had to figure out the number of A&G cards in the photo at Mojo headquarters. There were exactly 116 cards. Yup, knew it all the time.
And since I have no chance of winning the "Gint-a-Cuffs" contest, this is pretty dang awesome on its own.
Plus, you know what that means? It means that several people may get a few extra cards in their mid-summer Christmas stocking. I owe A&G cards to Brian, Beardy, Marie and Sean, but I may hold off on sending those packages until I get the winnings so I can see if I can do more damage to wants lists. You've just got to be patient, true believers.
Many thanks to Jay for all his contests. He's quite generous. And he's got to let me know what cards he collects (right now all I can discern is "everything"), so I can say thank you again.
And for those of you who are curious, Lightnin' Hopkins was a super-prolific country blues musician who came to prominence in the 1960s after years of being underappreciated by the masses.
For the record, I wasn't around when his music was at its peak. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate it.
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