When you’re paying $92.45 for a video game in a fancy collectors’ package, your expectations probably run pretty high. It’s a stupid amount to pay for a non-essential item, but…
The Black Diamond, VHS Grading, and How You’re Being Scammed
If you watch enough episodes of Pawn Stars or Antiques Roadshow, you may start to dream about finding something in your attic that’s worth a million bucks. And that’s a lovely thought…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 2
Quarantine is slowly creeping to an end. The world may not be totally safe, but it’s finally safe enough for anyone who’s been vaccinated, and digging through record crates again…
Quarantainment : Digging Your Own Crates, Part 1
It’s been a long year of Covid. If there was even the smallest chance that close contact with other people could cause their illness or death, it was worth it…
One Album Wonder : Rudi Vannelli
Virtuoso guitarist Rudi Vannelli died in 1961 of a heart attack, five years after he released his one and only album on Verve Records, 11 tracks under the title Maestro…
Wondering About Wazmo Nariz : New Wave’s Unsung Genius
There are record collectors, and there are music enthusiasts, and there are large areas in that Venn diagram that just don’t meet. But in that special place in the middle…
Arnie the Snake : Vintage Educational LPs
From the beginning of time, mankind has always tried to find ways to make kids less stupid, because when you really break it down, most kids are just a spindly…
The Marvel Comics Character That Everyone Forgot
The year was 1976, and Marvel comics were probably at their weirdest and most wonderful. Howard the Duck got his first solo book after first appearing in 1973’s Adventure into Fear…
Animal Contest : The Worst Video Game Ever
Is Animal Contest the worst video game ever? Probably… if it’s even a game.
Impractical Action Figures : Jokers in Miniature
Impractical Jokers is a reality TV show wherein four born-and-bred New Yorkers, with all of their brashness and neuroses, challenge each other to potentially humiliating tasks. Every episode is a…
The Importance of Rem Lezar
Back in 2006, I was writing for a website called Collectors Quest, a startup endeavor all about collecting. It had huge dreams, an awesome tenacity, and ultimately, a lack of…
Denver The Last Dinosaur on DVD
At the height of the the ’90s dino-craze, there was Denver. He claimed to be the last, but it was a lie.
Creepy Little Babies : The Art of Living Dead Dolls
From the biggest fans of Living Dead dolls,
Adventure Time on Blu-ray : Seasons 1 & 2
Adventure Time is the ultimate cartoon, and this is why you should keep some episodes around you all of the time.
Doctor Huh? – K9 : The Complete Series on DVD
Doctor Who’s robot dog gets a spinoff.
