Night Owl Cards

    One year ago today I was showing off the goods from my latest card show visit from the previous day. It was a happy moment. I had enjoyed success at that show unlike any other, thanks to an unusual blessing of cash.   Little did I know that it would be the last card show I would go to in ... well, maybe ever.   In the early days of this blog, I'd visit four card shows a year. Then it was down to three, then two. Now it's none. There is no show scheduled for October at the New York State Fairgrounds, traditionally the month when I can almost guarantee I'll be at show. I've attended an October show virtually every year of this blog.   But with the pandemic in force and my state taking it most seriously, I can forget about large-size shows. There's supposedly a hotel-room type show later this month. If I want to drive 2 1/2 hours there and back for that mystery show, I could do that I suppose.   I'm actually mostly OK with no show to go to, except when I ...

Some of you eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that briefly yesterday, Night Owl Cards featured a gray background. I was tinkering with the layout to accommodate my new logo. I eventually realized that Blogger wasn't going to help me in this area, but I should have known what I was doing was wrong because when have I ever liked gray as a primary design theme? Look at all the sets that I instinctively turn my nose up at: 1983 Fleer, 2017 Topps, 2020 Topps, all gray-based sets. The king of all gray-themed sets is, of course, 1970 Topps. As I've mentioned too many times, I've come around on '70 Topps, from considering it absolutely uncollectible to currently attempting to complete it. I still won't say it's in my top 10 or anything -- I'm basically trying to complete it because it's a set from the 1970s -- but I appreciate a lot of the pictures in the set more than I once did. And let's face it, compared with what's being churned out on ca...