Four Baggers and Foreclosures

A few weeks ago, I got the email that Google occasionally sends out to update the number of views your uploaded Google Maps pictures have accumulated. Sometimes I stop to read them, instead of deleting with the rest of the garbage email we all get. Reading that list, a few jumped out that I felt like looking further into. One of those businesses... Big Top Video and Circus Cinema, formerly located at 5580 North Federal Blvd. in Denver, Colorado. This picture wasn't taken by me. It's a cropped image from Google Street View. Since I'm not living in Colorado anymore, I have no way to get these pictures for myself. So in order to have a story to write, I had to resort to petty online theft. Not the type that means Lars can't buy a second gold plated helicopter, the type that I consider re-payment for all the content I've given the Googles over the years!  The sign in this photo is new compared to the sign that was up when I drove by the stores. If you haven't figure...

After the all around disappointment of 2021 Topps to me, I refused to buy my usual Jumbo boxes of Series 2 or Update. However, I liked the design of 2022 a whole lot more, and was excited to take a good look at Topps newest flagship offering. Perhaps I was just starving for any sort of new baseball content, as the lockout pretty much ruined the offseason. Maybe this 2022 Topps Series One Hobby Jumbo Box will somewhat ease the pain until this billionaires vs millionaires battle of attrition finally ends, and we start playing the actual game again. I wrote that when I started this story, back on February 17. Now that I’m finally getting around to finishing writing this, the lockout has ended, and the players and owners have worked things out, for five more years. Good! It was starting to seem a whole lot like 1994, just as I predicted it would several times in the last few years. This started out as my usual pack by pack review. Highlighting the 9 cards from  each pack that I liked t...