Jeff Bernstein, the agent for Indian pitching prospects Rinku and Dinesh, reports that the controversy with the Topps representative has been cleared up. He is not a very, very bad man after all. On Tuesday, Rinku and Dinesh reported on their blog that they had been fleeced by a Topps baseball card ...

Isla Fisher (Becky), Sophie Kinsella (bokens författarinna) och Hugh Dancy (Luke). Foto: Robert Zuckerman © Disney Enterprises, Inc I den nya romantiska komedin En shopaholics bekännelser spelar Isla Fisher en ung kvinna som är väldigt bra pÃ¥ att shoppa, kanske lite för bra. Hon heter Bec...

Oscargalan bjöd på en hel del drama i år även om vinnarna till största del var väntade. Brittisk-indiska succén Slumdog Millionaire vann stort med totalt 8 priser. Filmen tilldelades Oscar för bästa film, bästa regi (Danny Boyle), bästa originalmusik, bästa låt, bästa foto, ljudmix, kl...

It’s hard not to love a public interest group that feels OK about comparing a company to a rogue nuclear power with a befouled human rights record for attempting to … wait for it … sell candy to children. The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest is going after Topps ...

Here’s another 2008 list. This time, it’s the source for all things music, Rolling Stone Magazine . They’ve released their list of 2008’s top singles and I thought you’d enjoy seeing where your favorites show up on the list. There are a lot of new names this year and ma...

I know that some of you out there have not seen The Apple, so first, a primer: What is The Apple? Well, it's an allegory-heavy sci-fi disco musical that tells the tale of young folk singers Alphie and Bibi (they're from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan!), who struggle with fame and fortune in the dystopian f...

Here's a question: How many shots did it take for Al Oliver to settle on this bat? Also, if he ran out of bats, would he have posed holding a metal folding chair? You may have been wondering: what happened to Ben, and why doesn't he post as much as he used to? Well, a lot is going on. I work two job...

A few weeks ago, Reader Scott sent me a great big stack of blank-fronts, blank-backs, wrong-backs, misprints, and miscuts. To celebrate, I've put them with my other screwups in a binder. The most interesting thing, besides the sheer quantity of screwups Scott sent, is that the blank-fronts he sent w...

The Sklar brothers, Jason and Randy, have finished a a new web-only series for the Topps baseball card company called "Back On Topps", oddly enough about two brothers who inherit a baseball card company. High jinx will surely ensue. The brothers did a phoner with the Riverfront Times to promote thei...

I've been thinking about gimmick cards the last few days and about a comment left on a previous post. The comment asked how I could label something both 'tiresome and predictable' and 'fun.' Here's what I meant. Gimmick cards, when handled individually, are fun. Whether a dopey parody, a card writte...