Night Owl Cards

(Today is "Draw a Picture of a Bird Day." I hope everyone knows what kind of bird they should be drawing. My scrawled-on-a-post-it-note-in-10-minutes contribution is below. But first, Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 238th in a series): To me, 1990 Donruss is one of the most boring card sets that has ever been made. You can enthuse over the abundant error cards or the Aqueous test cards for a lifetime, but with the exception of the Bart Giamatti card, all I'll ever see is one boring photo after another enclosed in that same oppressive red frame. So, with the very little time I have today, I made it my mission to find one interesting thing to write about from the 1990 Donruss set. I shuffled through the 1990 Donruss cards that I own -- they are in order by team, but I care so little for the set that I noticed cards just dropped in there indiscriminately, a stray Pirate amid the Indians, for example -- and became more desperate as I came almost to the end witho...

Like most kids, I loved cereal. Cap'n Crunch, Frankenberry, Coco-Pebbles, Sugar Smacks, and many, many, teeth-rotting more. It was a daily habit. Until my mother decided that those cereals weren't healthy anymore. Our Lucky Charms and Honeycomb were replaced by Grape Nuts, Product 19 and Kix. There was one god-awful experience with something called All-Bran. I pray that they don't make that horrifying concoction anymore. We pleaded with our mother to bring back our precious, artificially-but-brightly-colored cereal. Our argument was that although the cereals had much more sugar than, say, the dried leaves packed in a box of Wheaties, the cereal boxes themselves were more educational. Boxes of healthier cereal basically droned on about how healthy the food was inside the box. Each box had the same numbing theme. But the sugary stuff had a variety of topics. Sometimes there was a game on the back, sometimes there were interesting facts about science or ...