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Home alone with '89 Fleer

I watched Home Alone last night in a fit of boredom. I wasn't bored because I've seen it a dozen times. In fact, I have never sat down for more than five minutes of the original movie or any of its spawns. I know it's "a classic" that everyone is supposed to watch, but the concept of a kid being annoying for 103 minutes is, to me, irritating, and then incredibly boring. But there I was yesterday taking in more of the movie than I ever have before. Good gracious, what a horrible family. Fortunately, I was viewing this while sorting some baseball cards, which helped things along a little. I was in a particularly baseball card frame of mind when I was watching the scene in which annoying Kevin climbs the shelves in annoying Buzz's room to rob Buzz of some cash from a 1989 Fleer tin on the top shelf. As everyone in the world knows, the shelves come crashing down upon Kevin, and in a tragic turn, he emerges from the wreckage unscathed. He then spots ...