In the quarterly “Class Review” I’ll recap my autograph-related activities of the past three months [Ed. note: I was a little tardy with this one so it will cover five months.]. Rather than publishing...
Update: Thanks to everyone who subscribed to the Autograph University Newsletter and entered to win. We’ve emailed the winner. Happy holidays! (To the tune of Jingle Bells) Graphing in the snow Outside a hotel...
The holidays are here and my Sharpie may very well stay capped for the remainder of 2011. Over the past year I’ve become a much more efficient grapher, minimizing the time spent chasing rumors,...
December 3, 2011 Bedford, Massachusetts It was a Black Friday scene all over again at HomeGoods in Bedford, Mass. Two hours before Pedro Martinez was set to kick off a scheduled toy drive, over...
If I had a dime (or better yet, an autograph) for every time I found out about a celebrity appearance the next morning… Event organizers know there’s no better way to drive ticket sales...
November 19, 2011 New Haven, Conn. If there’s one positive byproduct of the NBA lockout from the player’s perspective, it’s more time with family. Like someone laid off and forced into a stay-at-home period...
February 6, 2007 Boston, Massachusetts As an autograph collector I’m used to asking celebrities. Asking them to sign something. Asking them to take a picture with me. But never before has a famous person...
October 26, 2011 Boston, Massachusetts I was an hour early to the premiere of the ESPN documentary on Chris Herren, the Fall River-born hoops star turned junkie turned comeback story. While the guest list...
Everything I’m going to say you probably know already. It may seem basic. Maybe it’s common sense. But I still find myself failing to adhere to these principles and I bet, from time to...
September 24-25, 2011 Canton, Massachusetts Twelve miles south of Boston, Prowse Farm sits at the base of Great Blue Hill which overlooks the 6,000 acre Blue Hills Reservation. Though technically suburbia, it feels like...