Wax Heaven Giveaways!
Here are the cool cards Mario sent when I finally got off my lazy butt and sent him a SASE:
First the 2009 Upper Deck Football Heroes...
I’m trying to spread the love by sending and trading most of the cards received from Mario to those who will appreciate them more than I could ever hope to. Paul Hornung is offered to Heartbreaking Cards of Staggering Genius, and Tony Dorsett is now officially offered to BigD of Hey That’s Mine. I’m giving both Big Bens to a Steelers fan I know (other one coming up). The Maynard/Biletnikoff is the only for sure keeper from this scan, although the Alan Page is tempting, to get a TTM auto maybe. How epic would that look?
As it is, Alan Page, Plax, Calvin Johnson, Romo/Aikman, and the volleyball dude are available.
Beethoven, Florence Nightingale, and a couple Chicago legends...
Bobby Hull and Mike Ditka are the reason I got these cards in the first place, so they ain’t going anywhere. I dunno about the historical peoples though.
Kristi Yamaguchi and some rock-headed Presidents...
I used to have a crush on Kristi in my teenage years. Heh… :d
Do the Presidents look a lil’ toony to anyone else, or is it just me?
Yeah Woodstock! Woo!
Are there any bloggers out there who were at the original?
Malkin/Big Ben
This is also going to my Steeler fan friend.
Now we get to the higher end, a rare taste for me. But a yummy taste it is. 
Prime Jersey or Patch (whichever you prefer) #ed /50
This one I offered up for BigD’s Hines Ward collecting son. I got a little something for the whole gang, if they want ‘em, that is.
And if they can wait till 2010 to pull off the trade. I’m a slow trader (slow at doing nearly everything, really) to start with, but I think I’ve got trades going with half the card bloggers right now. At least it seems that way, not to mention McCann’s great card blogger Secret Santa thing. I’m very excited about dat though, and hopefully the person I drew will be too.
Prime Time Prime (Jumbo) Jersey #ed 3/5!
I’m not trading away this one, I really like this one. It’s purrty. I may have to sell it at some point sadly though. 
I’m poor like dirt. I have iffy mental health as an excuse, but I’ve got to try and make good, the sooner the better, and that’ll take some moneys to start with.
Incidentally, if you’d like to commission a sketch card, gimme a shout. You can see a few recent examples on my blog. I’m okay I guess, especially with portraityness.
Enough shameless and very awkwardly done self-promotion. Last card!
More prime jersey patches, going way back with Frank Gifford #ed /25
That was a heckuva box Mario busted, all three game-used being of the prime jersey variety, if not the sickest of patches. I like Absolute Memorabilia, one day I will be able to afford a box of it without breaking the bank, or even poking it softly. I have no intention of being a poor bum my whole life.
That’s all for what I got from big man of the blogosphere. Maybe I’ll win some stuff from him again (and sign up for Card Corner Club @VOTC) if I can figure out what the heck happened with my Ning password. :/
Oh yeah, congrats to Real Salt Lake on taking down the evil empire of David Beckham and Landon Donovan. I hope it doesn’t effect the value of my Beckham jersey card though (scans to come when I get it scanned).
And big ups for Matthew Stafford showing some Leftwich-ian toughness in getting the win against the Browns in a surprising shootout.
Until our next…(Besos)
The Winnars!
Roll that beautiful bean footage! Or just show the pic of the final randomization…
There you have it. Brian gets the first choice of uncirculated card, Deal gets the next choice, packaddict gets third, The Don has pick four, and Shane Elkinton gets the last card remaining.
I’ll get Collective Troll *something*, sometime, someday for making the the closest guess, but finishing last in the drawing.
Thank you to everyone who played, and thank you all for supporting my blog. Have a wonderful day.
Contest Fix
Since nobody won my 5000 Hit Contest, despite a fair number of people guessing, I have decided to just throw the big prize into the random drawing. It’s the simplest thing I can come up with, so all five uncirculated cards will be won thataway.
I will list everyone’s name in the order the guesses were made, and hit random five times, and the chips will fall where they may. The person at the top of the list gets to choose whichever of the prize cards they want, second place gets to choose from what’s left, and so on.
The final note is this. I’m broke, so it’ll be December before I can send the prizes.
I will do the drawing immediately after this post goes up. Good luck, and good night to all.
Ya Know Why I Love Benchwarmers?
Because they are the gift...
that keeps on...
giving!
Yeah! The backs of almost every card have a full or close to full-sized picture on them, lol. The poll seems to have disappeared, but most people seemed to like them some boobies. I believe it was 7-1 in favor of this continuing last time I had checked it. About four people wanted cookies too, so I guess I shall have to satiate their collective overpowering sweet tooths (teeths?) as well sometime.
Come by late this evening for an update on the contest. I think I’ve decided how to play it going forward, since nobody guessed correctly to win the big card.
That’s all for now. Have a beautiful weekend, beautiful people. Hehe… 
Until our next…
The Lonestarr Personal Collection #8
Woo, I’m signed in again. What a pain in the arse that has become since they monkeyed with the front page. Anyway, in the name of just getting a post in, I present another piece of my personal collection. Not only that, but today is special. This is one of my most very favorite pieces of my personal collection. It comes from my first trade with Marie from A Cardboard Problem and in recent times the Upper Deck Blog. Anyway, I never actually got around to posting the trade I don’t think, but I did scan it all. And now I present one of the coolest cards I’ve ever laid eyes on, the main event of what Marie sent those many moons ago:
Sportscaster!
How cool is that? It’s a 2004 Leaf Sportscaster card #ed to either /20 or /40 (don’t feel like messing with teh ginormo binder to find out for sure, will edit it to the right number when I do get around to messing with it). The reason this is so cool, is that back when Beckett was still to some degree relevant to me, these cards caught my eye for some reason. Maybe it was the name, or the rarity, but for some reason, their entry in the price guide I was always curious about. I would always stop on it when I’d, um, leaf through the thing.
I never thought I’d actually own one though. I had never consistently collected baseball, it didn’t become my #1 until I discovered the card blogs at the beginning of 2008 (yep, I’m not quite an original, but I’ve been around since pretty early on, first starting my blog around March of last year, only got six posts in before giving up until several months later when I deleted the old posts and started from scratch), and I’m not sure I even had access to whatever Donruss brand they came in anyway, and definitely not if they were hobby exclusive. There hasn’t been a card shop around here since around the turn of the milliniem. And they were pretty rare, to me at least. I still don’t know exactly how hard to come by they were, but I figured it was beyond my realm of luck. I never pulled anything #ed that low until 2005.
Anyway, yes, this is one of the most awesome cards I own, not just because of it’s inherent awesomeness, that it’s pretty rare and features one of the greatest of all time, but because there is a debatably interesting story behind it. There is a reason, that I can’t adequately explain, for me to have been drawn to it, to have wanted it, even though I didn’t quite understand what it was, and it came to me as a total surprise.
All I wonder about now, is what magic Marie has up her sleeve for round two, if we ever get around to finishing this second trade…
Oh, and Sooz, I need your address. I’m still waiting to find out what exactly I need to send to Marie, but all your cards have been ready to go for awhile.
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Then again, I guess there’s no hurry. I’m pretty much broke till December, so I can’t send it till then anyway. Meh, just send ya addy whenever. I’m going to sleep. This post took way longer than intended (they always do…). Peace, love, and fighting spirit!
~Akron Hammer. Huh?
And Now, Sketch Cards
Here’s three of the sketch cards that I finished:
Superman Sketch Card
Mr. T Sketch Card
Nelson Mandela Sketch Card... This one came out so well I was afraid to ink or color it.
There ya go. Whatcha think?
Until our next…
Shalrie, Shalrie…♫
Since my Shalrie Joseph jersey card has just found itself a soon-to-be new home at The Great Sports Name Hall of Fame, I have an excuse to post it, along with a few other nice cards I pulled all by my lil ‘ol self.
Griffey is the only keeper.
I guess the golf auto counts as a pull. It was the guaranteed auto from a 5 golf packs and an auto thing. And a good one at that.
Here's the not-especially-committal back of the Shalrie Joseph swatch of somethin' or other. The swatch feels like the trim on the shorts I'm wearing.
Shalrie was almost a keeper, but it’s cool. I will track another down someday if I feel the need. That said, I’m not without soccer swatches of great midfielders even after Shalrie goes on his way.
That… was a tease.
The Winning Number!
Here’s the winning number:
The card you’ve been trying to win was #’ed /57, hence the guessing pf numbers between 1 and 57, and if you can’t tell from the blurrier than I was expecting scan, it’s #’ed 19/57. Therefore, the winning number is:
19!
Nobody guessed the right number though. I guess I don’t have enough reach for a contest like this yet, or the contest just wasn’t good enough to attract enough interest to get a lot of people guessing. Either that or y’all are just bad guessers. 
Now what do I do though? Do I throw it into the drawing now, and leave all five cards to be won that way? Do I give it to the person that’s guess was the closest? Suggestions please. :/
The Most Badass Sketch Card There Ever Was
My dad finally got around to making use of the pack of blank sketch cards I gave him when I bought my first packs some time ago. And oh did he ever it pwn it on his first try! I’m going to start scanning all his sketch books and make him a deviantART account and post his stuff wherever I can (been meaning to for awhile). He is a great artist, and where my brother and (allegedly) me get our mad artistic skillz. So without further ado, I proudly present to the world, the most badass sketch card that’s ever been drawn:
Chuck!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s right, it’s a sketch card of Chuck-Freakin’-Norris! My dad has been a big fan of Chuck Norris for a long, long time (decades before Chuck Norris Facts, the Walker, Texas Ranger Lever, or even Walker, Texas Ranger itself made it cool), so it’s only appropriate the man hisself be his first try at a sketch card. Pretty awesome huh? I like how he colored it, to give it an old-timey feel. I forget the exact colors, but he did this with gel pens. Not bad, eh?
Y’know, I Hear it Actually Rains Treats in Kitty Heaven
My mom emailed today telling me her cat died sometime today.
There she is... she looks annoyed, lol.
She was around 13 years old, so she was getting up there a bit, but hardly an old fart (especially considering one of the cats we had when I was younger lived to be 22 or so). You’d never have guessed she was well into her second decade, as spry as she was. She was in very good health, which makes her sudden death all the more upsetting. She hadn’t been on the decline at all, and I’m told she was doing quite well even just a couple hours before she was found dead in the closet in my parents room.
My brother drew this awhile back.
RIP Tater. I don’t think you liked me much, but it’s okay. You will be missed.
