Wet dog blues
Poor Cody looks so pathetic, especially when he is dripping wet. And I still have to carefully hand-pluck those little…
A nice day in Cumberland
I like these extra-wide matchbooks. This one is for the Hazelton company, manly men with their crawlers, dozers, pay-loaders, rollers…
HO SHIT Scale Railroading
Apparently, I forgot what a frustrating hobby this was, my last train set was about 25 years ago, and my…
Vote for Bubbles!
There is a sign down the road that exhorts people to vote for ANYBODY BUT INSLEE (Jay Inslee, our governor…
I’ll have the soup!
I found this in my matchbook collection, I was laughing but my wife told me to grow up. Not sure…
Pac Man Fever? Try lockdown madness.
I was digging up some rockery and found this decrepit old video game token. Wouldn’t it be creepy if there…
The Kingdome fiasco; 25 years ago today
On September 19, 1995, King County voters defeated a ballot measure that would have funded the construction of a new…
I give up on this
I have lost interest in my coin and token collection, Except for the silver dollar with the president Nixon case,…
Operation Desert Storm: This time it’s personal
I acquired a pack of these “Desert Storm Trading Cards” – I don’t know if there are “rare” and “common”…
Space Command!
It must have been a golden time for independent Television and Radio stores like Jack Bartlett’s. Remote Control of your…