i pretty much never tell anyone about my collection.  family and friends know, but i intentionally don't go into details.  i only have my vintage carded stuff displayed, so it doesn't look too over the top, and if you don't tell people what the cost they usually just think its kinda neat and kitschy.

in about '98 i got my 1st potf2 stuff.  at 1st i only got what i liked, but i soon realized that i liked alot of it, so i decided to get the other 15 or so that i didn't have and go completist.   then it seems like there was a lull where no figures were coming out, so i started on the ships.  during this phase i was trying to display everything.  i had ships on strings and moc figures pretty much wallpapering the room.  then we moved and i "wallpapered" a room at the new house, but stopped bothering with the ships.  also, about that time i got my 1st vintage figures.  brians was selling luke jedi's and vaders for i think $30 each, so i went for it.  i immediately noticed that those figures felt much more interesting to me.  i continued with the modern like thru all the ep1 and potj figures, but only got a few of the saga ones.  i was completely out of room to display anything, and it really felt like hasbro was really stretching... putting out a bunch of figures that very meaningless.  that was when i decided to try to finish a vintage carded run.   i have about 70 of them now, and probably won't finish for quite a while.  the remaining ones are all either expensive or a pain in the ass to find in decent condition.  all the modern stuff i have is in boxes in the garage.  i need to sell it to fund a yakface.

i saw rush saturday.  i have seen them a bunch of times and was very pleased that they broke out quite a few songs i had never seen them do live before, or hadn't heard in a very long time.

they are a smart band recognizing that most of their audience are repeat customers and trying to mix it up so people will come out every time they tour.

i have to wonder if the reggie miller thing isn't sort of related to the KG deal.  he told them he wasn't coming, so they got ray allen and begged some more.  i wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't some sort of converstation like "ok, I'll come, but you aint done yet.  how about some more veterans?".

wow... i can't believe someone gave one of those up.

i think Hill is a heck of a pick up for phoenix.  and, it seems like they got him for nothing.

it looks like the lakers are willing to trade their present and their future for KG.   i would be surprised if the lakers were super sucessful if this trade goes thru.  you need look no farther than houston to see what happens when 2 great players have no help at all.