{"id":785,"date":"2007-12-04T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/file-as-cool-things-ill-never-own\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T18:23:00","slug":"file-as-cool-things-ill-never-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/file-as-cool-things-ill-never-own\/","title":{"rendered":"File as &#8220;Cool Things I&#8217;ll Never Own&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby&#8217;s is putting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/25\/nyregion\/25magna.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">a copy of the Magna Carta on auction<\/a>. Estimated value: $20 million-$30 million.<\/p>\n<p>I just saw a 1907 Winsor McCay <i>Little Nemo in Slumberland<\/i> page for sale. The asking price is 9500$, and it&#8217;s a LOT lower than estimated market price of a Little Nemo original because the bottom panel is missing. You know, I am <i>almost<\/i> tempted to go ahead and get a bank loan to fund it, but unfortunately, logic &#8211;  not hard, cold logic but the kind of half-assed mental construct that restrains me from collapsing as a gibbering heap of art-deprived slush everytime I see a seller update &#8211; prevents me from doing so. The Logic here at work is &#8211; if I go ahead and buy a Winsor McCay at this point in my life, there will be nothing to look forward in my middle age. It&#8217;s a clever ruse, the cold logic part of my mind realises, because in all probability the majority of my earnings in my middle age will go towards funding my kids&#8217; Reebok shoes and iPod Picos ( Operated-By-Thought-models) and their education. But one must know one&#8217;s place, and it is, simply put, a belief on my part &#8211; I <i>will<\/i> own Harold Foster <i>Prince Valiant<\/i> Sunday page, an Alex Raymond <i>Flash Gordon<\/i> Sunday, a Herriman <i>Krazy Kat<\/i> strip, a Burne Hogarth <i>Tarzan<\/i> and an Eisner <i>Spirit<\/i> page, but their time is not now. Not just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Glad I could get that off my chest. Phew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby&#8217;s is putting a copy of the Magna Carta on auction. Estimated value: $20 million-$30 million. I just saw a 1907 Winsor McCay Little Nemo in Slumberland page for sale. The asking price is 9500$, and it&#8217;s a LOT lower than estimated market price of a Little Nemo original because the bottom panel is missing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}