Hey, wait, that’s me. Crystal Schwanke contacted me through eBay a couple of weeks ago about doing this. She sent me some questions and I did my best to answer them. I really wasn’t familiar with the site, but clicked around it a little after Crystal first contacted me and it looked pretty comprehensive. The […]

This was a pretty strange auction I thought (the one for this card). I listed the card last week with a reserve price of $89.98. That was met almost immediately, and then two bidders squared off and bumped the card up to just over $220 within the first 24 hours of the auction. That’s when […]

I covered this in the newest issue of the newsletter associated with my magazine collecting site. The January 1936 issue of The American Magazine included an article where a midwest theater operator took issue with a critics list of top 10 attractions. The critics had these 10: 1. Charles Laughton 2. Claudette Colbert 3. George […]

Just tooting my own horn here, it’s been a long wait to see the color of my star change, but it finally went green this past week. The things-and-other-stuff eBay ID was created on April 10, 2000 not so ironically just a few days after I began the desk job that I was to hold […]

At least that’s the case here on Long Island. And I didn’t notice it being announced anywhere, so hopefully it sticks and isn’t some sort of trial or something. I was flipping through the channels Saturday and as I always do when I notice The Manchurian Candidate is on, I hit the “info” button on […]