Stories like this make my heart go all a flutter. This guy buys some crappy old tin on eBay for a few bucks, and it turns out to have inside an extremely rare Charlie Chaplin propaganda film from 1916 called Charlie Chaplin in Zepped. The film is worth an estimated £1 million. I don’t know […]
American Pickers season 2 starts June 7
Great news! My favorite show (now that LOST and 24 are over) is coming back with its second season next month… NEW YORK – Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz are once again searching the back roads, junkyards, and filled-to-the-brim barns in America for “rusty gold.” With an average of 3.8 million total viewers per episode in its […]
Yard Sale Score: LOTR, Godzilla, Turtles, etc.
They say gamblers get on a hot streak, well I am on a yard sale hot streak. I love this time of year. Every neighborhood in the DC suburbs is holding community yard sales every Saturday, and I have been finding some really great stuff. This past weekend I struck action figure gold. It’s not […]
Collections for sale: Simpsons and the Flash
There sure are a lot of big collections up for sale these days. I’m not sure if people just need the money or if they are trying to clear out their basements. I just wish I had some deeper pockets because I would love to get my hands on some of the collections that have […]
LOST props coming up for auction
LOST is coming to an end, but fear not! If you want to own a little bit of history, or maybe a relic of the Dharma Initiative, you’re in luck, as this summer, Profiles in History, will be auctioning props from the series. Here are some of my favorite items up for bid: Two wooden […]
RIP Frank Frazetta
Iconic fantasy artist Frank Frazetta passed away today at the age of 82. Frazetta painted masterful illustrations of pulp heroes such as Conan the Barbarian and John Carter of Mars, and heavy metal album covers for Molly Hatchet and Nazareth. In his youth, Frazetta worked on daily comic strips of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. […]