Somehow the world has gotten worse since the last time I posted here. But fret not, I'm still here and so are you.
I mentioned last month that I bought a few things off of eBay that hadn't arrived yet at the time I wrote that entry, but now I'm ready to show them off to you.
First up, this Carl Yastrzemski trading card. Why THIS of all things? Like all things in my life, you can trace this back to The Simpsons.
In the episode "Three Men and A Comic Book" way back in season 2, Milhouse tries to buy this specific card from Comic Book Guy. Turns out "Carl Yastrzemski with the big sideburns" described quite a few different cards, and I scoured eBay for a while for the closest approximation of it. A few were worth quite a bit of money.
This one was worth thirty bucks in 1991, but I got this one for about four dollars. Maybe because it isn't graded? It's just in a few sleeves, seems like an actual grade raises the value quite a bit.
It also features probably my favorite fun fact for any sports player. So...normal. I tried researching just WHY or WHEN Yaz was the director of a bank, but any google searches turned up empty.
In one week, we lost three solid contenders for "Greatest of All Time" status: Little Richard, Jerry Stiller, and Fred Willard. You know me and my love of celebrity autographs, so I scoured eBay as soon as I heard the news about Jerry Stiller to buy one of his signatures before his price inevitably skyrocketed.
I knew that Little Richard already commanded a hefty price when he was alive, so I figured that Frank Costanza himself would be a little more reasonable. And he was. They say that a personalized autograph decreases the value, but I say that's what makes it authentic. I don't know who Roy was, but I thank him for getting this, which is now in my hands.
And now a compilation of my favorite Frank Costanza moments:
Of course I did the same thing when I heard about Fred Willard.
That man was in just about everything, and was most often the best part of anything he was in. He was a master improviser whose voice had the ability to make anything sound hilarious. This specific picture is from his appearance in A Mighty Wind, an all-around great movie. It's probably not as well known as some of Christopher Guests' other movies like Best in Show or This is Spinal Tap, but he is incredible in it.
I personally love his performance in "Best in Show."
I haven't seen much of "I Think You Should Leave" (blame my lack of a Netflix account), but he did an absolutely banger of a sketch that I've been watching over and over for the past few weeks.
God, he's the only person who could make me laugh at "my condolences."
I was wondering where I saw that giant instrument before, and then I remembered this video making the rounds about a month or so back:
He's made videos of him explaining how it works, and playing other songs that may seem more familiar, like this one:
Speaking of which, I need to also get HBO Max, I hear those new Looney Tunes cartoons are quite good.
This isn't where I thought this entry would end up when I started writing it, but here we are. See you guys in June if the world is still intact by then.
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