MERRY CARDMAS BONUS: BLACK FRIDAY COMC PICKUPS - PART 28: GILBERT PART 2

HOORAY! CHRISTMAS HAS COME! OR MAYBE IT HASN'T, I'M WRITING THIS OVER A WEEK BEFOREHAND. PERHAPS THE GRINCH HAS SNATCHED IT AWAY. PERHAPS YOU ARE THE GRINCH AND HAS DONE THE SNATCHING! SNATCHED OR NO, I HOPE YOU ENJOY CHRISTMAS OR THE LACK OF IT. AS A SPECIAL TREAT FOR YOU HERE IS ONE MORE POST FOR CARDMAS: A BLACK FRIDAY 2021 PICKUP THAT IS BEING POSTED WAY OUT OF ORDER. YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT GILBERT PART 1 IS YET! THAT'S A FUN ONE BUT NOT QUITE AS GOOD AS THIS

FEEL FREE TO READ THIS POST IN GILBERT'S VOICE

IN EVERY COMC ORDER I SPLURGE ON ONE CARD AND SPEND SOMETHING LIKE A FIVER ON ONE CARD SO THERE'S SOMETHING NICE IN BETWEEN ALL THE JUNK I FOUND FOR THIRTY-THREE CENTS. THE FIRST TIME I DROPPED A FIVER IT WAS A JASON HEYWARD TOPPS GOLD NUMBERED PARALLEL, THIS YEAR IT WAS A CARD FROM 1941. THAT JIM BOUTON CARD FROM A FEW POSTS AGO WAS A HIGH ROLLER PICKUP FROM COMC, I SPENT SIX WHOLE DOLLARS ON THAT ONE. IN 2021 I ACTUALLY GOT TWO SPENDY CARDS, THIS ONE HERE AN ANOTHER YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE IN JANUARY. I HAVE BEEN A HUGE FAN OF GILBERT GOTTFRIED FOR DECADES. I ALWAYS LOVED HIS CRAZY VOICE AND LIKED CATCHING HIM DO HIS SCHTICK ON USA UP ALL NIGHT OR SOME RANDOM SMALL PART IN A TV SHOW EVERY SO OFTEN. MY COLLEGE FRIENDS COULDN'T STAND LISTENING TO HIM BUT THEY ALL SURE LOVED HIM IN ALADDIN.  HE SHOWED UP IN TONS OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS IN THE 90S: REN & STIMPY, DUCKMAN, THE WEIRD AL SHOW, DR. KATZ. HE DID VOICE WORK ON EVERYTHING INCLUDING MY KIDS' SHOWS LIKE CYBERCHASE. MOTHERFUCKER WAS EVERYWHERE. HOLLYWOOD SQUARES. THE ARISTOCRATS. THE AFLAC DUCK. THE APPRENTICE. GILBERT WAS EVERYWHERE AND HE WAS ALWAYS FUNNY. THEN HE DID THE FUNNIEST PODCAST EVER. I HAD ALREADY PICKED UP A DONRUSS AMERICANA BASE CARD AND WANTED A RELIC OR AUTO TO GO WITH IT AND FOUND THIS COOL SWATCH FROM AMERICAN PICE WITH HALF A DOZEN COLORS ON IT. IS IT A TIE? UNDERWEAR? WHO KNOWS, GILBERT WORE WHATEVER IT WAS AND THAT WAS ENOUGH

AND THEN OUTTA NOWHERE GILBERT DIED THIS YEAR. THIS HIT ME HARD AT A TIME WHEN I DIDN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF MENTAL ENERGY TO DEAL WITH STUFF. SOMETHING THAT BROUGHT ME A LOT OF JOY WAS SUDDENLY GONE AND A LOT OF THAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING RECENTLY. I FEEL A LITTLE BAD BRINGING EVERYTHING DOWN ON CHRISTMAS BUT IT'S BEEN A FUCKED UP YEAR - HALF A DOZEN YEARS, REALLY - AND THE FACT THAT I SURVIVED THIS ONE AT ALL HAS ME A LITTLE INTROSPECTIVE AT THE END OF IT. SHIT SUCKS BUT I'M STILL HERE AND I GOT LIKE 500 AMAZING COLOSSAL PODCAST EPISODES TO RE-LISTEN TO AND A COOL CARD OF I DUNNO A HANDKERCHIEF OR SOMETHING TO REMEMBER GILBERT BY. IF YOU NEVER LISTENED TO AN EPISODE OF THE PODCAST I HIGHLY RECOMMEND ONE OF HIS CHRISTMAS EPISODES WITH MARIO CANTONE, THEY ARE ALL HILARIOUS. I ALSO AM FOND OF THE TRAINWRECK MARTY ALLEN EPISODE, AND ALSO BOB EINSTEIN, BILLY WEST, BILL MACY, DICK CAVETT, HELL JUST CHECK OUT WHATEVER ENCORE SHOW THEY ARE RUNNING THIS WEEK, THEY'RE ALL PRETTY GOOD. HERE'S TO YOU GILBERT, THANKS FOR THE LAUGHS 

NOW THE TREE HAS A STAR AND YOU KNEW I WASN'T GOING TO LEAVE SNOOPY OUT OF THE FESTIVITIES. MAY YOUR CHRISTMAS BE FILLED WITH ORANGE WEDGES AND CHICKENS AND GLASS COFFEE TABLES. WAIT, NO. MAYBE STAY AWAY FROM ALL THAT. JUST HAVE A NICE DAY AND PERHAPS WATCH THE MR MAGOO CHRISTMAS CAROL INSTEAD. GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE! WITH RAZZLEBERRY DRESSING