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My Story Made it to Beckett Online!

So, it looks like my story was picked up by Beckett! I hope to be in the hard copy magazine as well. Since they posted a few pics of some customs I had signed, I guess I'll continue on with telling about them! In typical unorthodox mouschi form, I destroyed $20 worth of Canseco rookies to make a booklet. At long last, here it is ... autographed! If you don't read the above link, it probably won't make sense, but for cliff's notes, a few people were nice enough to send me some of their beat up Canseco rookies for

Madonna’s got nothing on Mrs. Krabappel!

You may or may not remember buried in this post that I had created a Jose Canseco Simpsons card from the episode "Homer at the Bat". I had to re-draw the entire thing to make sure it was nice and clear. I just had to get this autographed, after I thought up an epic inscription, but I wanted to give a bit of back story on it all. Remember this lovely lady? The one and only Mrs. Krabappel. In the episode "Homer at the Bat", starring Jose Canseco, Don Mattingly, Darryl Strawberry and tons of other players, the script called

Chasing Canseco – Best Day Ever

Last thursday morning marked the start of our 4,000 mile / 10 day family road trip. The plan was to go to hoover dam, the beach in California, LEGOLAND, carlsbad caverns, visit a friend in the mountains, roswell (yes, I am an alien nerd!), the grand canyon and several other things. The most important one for me, however, was to go to Las Vegas and have my customs signed by my childhood hero, Jose Canseco. As you may know, the flip quests I do are inspired by the red paper clip story - where one person goes from trading a red

Is this what a REAL bat card should be?

Tonight, we are having a "Scrubs Musical" party for my birthday. For those of you who haven't watched Scrubs before, do it - do it now. NO - first read this posting, then watch it - you will thank me! The musical is season 6, episode 6, on netflix. Yesterday and this morning however, I have been spending time doing a few things I really enjoy: writing and card creating! You only turn 21 once. Though that happened 14 years ago for me, I figured I'd share my latest concoctions online. I really enjoy the positive feedback, so why not

I Mustache you a Question, but I’ll shave it for the Wedding

WARNING: You are about to see my face. A lot. If that bothers you, kindly click away now! My wife has ... like ... 132 siblings, but thankfully, all but two are married off, and one is slated to be married a long ways from now. The youngest of the family, at 25 years of age, got married yesterday. By God's grace, we escaped the possibility of a catholic wedding, (read: we didn't have to sit through 18 hours) and it went down at a Bible church (the church I went to when I was 15, actually...the same pastor is

I did WHAT with a Game Used Bat?!?!?!

I'm not sure what it is with kids these days wanting to take pictures of them holding a lot of money and posting it on facebook/twitter/instagram. I guess it is because it makes you look wealthy - you want to put to rest the whispers of friends, family and neighbors that you might *gasp* not have several one hundred dollar bills at your disposal to fill a bath tub and take a picture of. Here is one of a kid that apparently stole the money, took a pic and posted it online #genius. Apparently this is a rapper of some

The Great-Grand Gold Border

In the early 90's, I believe it was, a new, cutting edge type of comic book came out by the name of the Walking Dead. It was a very limited run. I was not into comics, nor am I now (though I do enjoy the thought of having them, plus, I've sold about 40,000 of them over the past 4 years or so.) When the tv show hit, the prices sky-rocketed. Whenever I would sell a lot of comics, the first question was "Got any Walking Dead?" The answer would always be no. Why? Because they were very scarce ...

Adventures in Tech Support

Let me start off by saying #1stworldproblems I've been having wifi connectivity issues for a while now, so I got comcast out here to take a look today. We do not have tv or cable - just internet. Our downstairs laptop runs through a projector so we watch our tv that way. MLB.TV has been great! But I really, realllly miss MLB Network - especially Quick Pitch in the morning. The technician told me I could go on chat and ask if and how to watch MLB Network online. Great! Tonight, I hopped on and casually spoke with a support

Pacific Embossed Cards and the Incognito Effect

I've had a LOT of awesome pickups recently, but here is a more unique one. I was cruising online to see if anyone had a nice lot of Canseco I did not have, and lo & behold, someone had something that I hadn't ever seen before. Pacific Show/Expo embossed cards. They are cool enough w/out a back story, but the history of them make them definitely worthwhile. You cannot really tell they are embossed until you tilt them in the light, and then they pop. Back in the 90's, Pacific setup at card shows with a promotion where you could

Help! The Hobby is DYINNGGG!!!!

Boy, have times changed. As a kid who grew up in the 80's and 90's, when you would turn on an "oldies" radio station, you might hear songs from Elvis, the Temptations, the Beatles and Johnny Cash. We thought we could re-live how life was for our parents growing up by watching sitcoms such as the Wonder Years. Fun fact, did you know that THIS is the guy who was the narrator for The Wonder Years?! Yeah, I know! Blew my mind too. Jokes would flow about asking your parents how it was to have a dinosaur for a pet,

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