No, Not a Buh...:Good Night Leslie

not a buh...a Bomb. As the wheel grinds away eternal and the circle be unbroken so to, must we, all shuffle off this mortal coil.

thanks to R.W.Emerson and, traditional bluegrass and tha Bard himself for the words.

Check for an Action: Free shipping to my Fellows

I have a bunch of auctions over here that will be coming and going in the near future. Don't worry, I saved all the autos to flash here and some cherry-picked winners for a few trades to speak of.
anyone mentioning Signhereandhere in their purchase order gets free shipping. Or extra cards...or both.
later
Peterson

One Thing I Love About Collecting Sigs: Tha Monee

I bought this little guy for a little under 8 bucks shipped about four years ago, and have it at auction right now. the auction site i use (which needs no extra ads) can be fickle, but the last one came in at a hefty 98bucks and change...
Just for the record, I bought this for the on-card sig and the great, almost-star auto. It is by far the best looking one I have seen available for trade.
Good Job, Mr. Votto. I didn't know you had it in you. (seriously, I totally did not see this coming)
Original Purchase price: 8.00
Final Sale Price: 67.50 (wtf)
Peterson

Proposition: I Think You Know Where I Am Coming From

I am going to take a couple of my topps chrome to school and go see my buddy Chris in the Physics department to take a reading of the reflexive energy or tensile strength of the curve of "new topps" (like new coke only shittier) chrome cards I aquired recently in a couple of choice retail purchases.[highlights to follow, I was fairly lucky]

I will be getting as precise a measurement as I can, and we can add that to the fire that is the semi-liquid pile of disco-wax that is the hatred for topps' current ABOMINABLE quality control issues in the baseball line.

I will also post all of the first ever product I have ever had the need to send back to the maufacturer ever.

Peytrsun(in an irish accent)

New Post: #250

Just to put that here. moving on...

Brick-a-brack: Wicked Breakdown

Please take a gander at what my man Wicked is up to over here.

he's gonna bust NINETEEN boxes of some real classic wax. The stuff you wanted a box of as a kid, but you were reduced to using valuable Pizza/Streetfighter money or palming a pack here or there. Or maybe you were a good kid and just want to get some bulging team assortment with a few cool inserts and a blast from the days of old (term relative to age of author).

I got the mariners hoping to bolster my Griffey as a Mariner pages.

plus, I am hoping to wrangle some other participants into sending me 86 topps doubles...

send him 19 bucks and have fun with us.

Can't wait to see you there.

peace.

Happy Halloween Y'all:not my favorite "holiday"

2010 Topps Chrome Football and Baseball Wantlists...Want Wantlists...wantlisssssssssts....Before I put what I have on eeeeeeebaaaaaaaaaay.....

Blogger Fun Fact: Get To Know Peterson

90% of the cards I own have never had their backs read by me. I need to get on that...

It's In The Cards: Read At Own Risk

There are times, many infact, that I find myself wondering just why I have insisted on accumulating so many small pieces of cardboard and plastic that bear the likeness of athletes and such. The money I spend to have and organize my cards, the percieved value that is associated with each one, and where it fits in my grand scheme of priority, all so easily seen as a fool's venture...a bilk, a scam.....but there is so much more.

These are the intangibles.
For me, the intangibles may differ from your average card-collecting adult, though Nostalgia only plays a limited role in mine.

It is the simplicity.

one card, one timeline, limited content, infinite perceptions.

why this card? why now?
I am in love with the fact that the answers to the previous questions are completely up to me.
I am in love with the fact that at any given time in my perilous life, I can get lost in a stack of mass-marketed, collector-persuant pieces of paper.

Buddhism teaches that one should not want, for to want and not recieve is the source of all dissatisfication and unhappiness.
Luckily, this does not play in my style of collecting.
I do not open boxes of Triple Threads, or Sterling, or Cases ( as I see has become hugely popular on many a web-based forum)
Therefore I am not unhappy when I don't pull a "white whale". I find it classically ironic that this term from Moby Dick is used in the hobby to describe what it does...hilarious in fact.
unspeakably perfect.

I love refractors though, and expertly painted art cards, and unique signatures.
so I keep all of the pieces of cardboard carefully in boxes, and trot them out to pick and re-pick all of my favorites and take stock of who's where and what not.

I do not plan on putting my kids through college with my autograph or Brewers or O's collections...but I do plan on having an office in my next house for me, my musical instruments, my glass art marbles, my Andy Goldsworthy book collection, my early graffiti mags, my sticker collection, my seashells, my rocks, minerals and crystals, my trainers, my fitted hats, my crates of vinyl, my photography studio, cassette recordings I made as a "sound designer" in my more delusional college days, my concert ticket stubs, my patch collection and my old coins.
hell's yes. now that is what I call success.
...only if to suceed would be to acheive total disillusionment through textbook escapist tendencies to keep my proverbial psychological "head" above water...I mean, we're all treading at some point...c'mon.

There are so many hobbies, habits and volitions in our culture (because I do believe that we are different if placed outside of said culture [read: bubble]) that can take us light-years away from our plodding lifestyle ryfe with receipts, automobiles and concocted remedies...

our cards, our trades, on our terms.
we like it this way because we make it our way.
we are the deciders. and we guarantee you we will not like everything.




So there it is. My Catharsis. the ebb to my bloggular flow. I am teaching my ass of back at the HS where I started, and for those of you who have been with me since anytime all the way back to January, Thank you. I know what those words mean, and I mean it. I will never let this blog die...but i might move to wordpress...

I would like to leave you with a pair of quotes from men far more eloquent than I...
Love,
Peterson




"Leisure is the mother of philosophy".
Thomas Hobbes

"Everyone of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols".
John Calvin

Hey Don't Forget!: 2010 Topps Heritage Chrome and Refractors

I am still very much in the work to complete the 2010 heritage chrome set. I have refrained from going for purchasing, and would really rather trade for them. NEED LIST is on my sidebar at the bottom...hit me up!
Also, I am looking for a
1. Pirates Fan
2. Padres Fan
3. Phillies Fan

To trade with. Stuff is piling up...see me.

Peterson