Joshenilia (2)

By: Joshua Glenn
November 7, 2015

One in a series of posts exhuming the juvenilia and significant objects of HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn.

STRAY TRADING CARDS

As a child and adolescent, I collected many decks of trading cards. Many decks.

At some point, I got rid of each of these decks. But somehow, one or two cards from each deck always survived these purges. Perhaps I’d used the card as a bookmark, or it had slipped into a crack in the bureau drawer….


Han Solo
Han Solo

Dave Smallee — from a deck of Boston Rock cards.
Dave Smallee — from a deck of Boston Rock cards.
Rusty Kuntz — the only baseball card I couldn't part with, when I gave all of my cards to my younger brother.
Rusty Kuntz — the only baseball card I couldn’t part with, when I gave all of my cards to my younger brother.

I now have a couple dozen individual cards from long-gone decks. What to do with them? I have no desire to recreate these decks; but I can’t get rid of these stray cards. Ever.

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READ MORE essays by Joshua Glenn, originally published in: THE BAFFLER | BOSTON GLOBE IDEAS | BRAINIAC | CABINET | FEED | HERMENAUT | HILOBROW | HILOBROW: GENERATIONS | HILOBROW: RADIUM AGE SCIENCE FICTION | HILOBROW: SHOCKING BLOCKING | THE IDLER | IO9 | N+1 | NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW | SEMIONAUT | SLATE

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