Card Shorthand

Card-collector and sports (American football) fan is challenged by a cyber-inquirer about the 'qualia' of his (unsigned) Thanksgiving-football TV-fanfare culture trading-card treasure for kilns.

A sports trading-card culture portrait. Happy late-Summer, 

DISCLAIMER: This work of sports fiction offers no ties to any representative person(s)/body and is therefore cast as purely a 'personal' expression for social art (for 'open' views/translations).

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Mr. Amlan Satan had become a pronounced collector-fan of things of social activity and storytelling culture in the American Homeland, and when he found a very-special sports trading-card of a Thanksgiving-football TV town's QB-star rookie athlete of Super Bowl winning premonition, he thought about all the things he'd collected over the years for his interest/investment in things of Earth realm keratin (Facebook-like!),

DR. STRANGE: Thanx for chatting with me online, collector-man.

AMLAN: What's this inquiry about my Detroit-Thanksgiving football QB-treasure?

DR. STRANGE: Detroit has become holiday-season football keratin, collector-man.

AMLAN: Don't I know it...Facebook-like?

DR. STRANGE: Man, I've the very-same card/treasure, but an autographed copy.

AMLAN: That's of interest (ok!).

DR. STRANGE: You do not have an autographed print/card, eh?

AMLAN: No, I just have a standard card (unsigned).

DR. STRANGE: The featured athlete had moved from Detroit and won a Lombardi.

AMLAN: That's truth!

DR. STRANGE: You have culture-symbol collection, but no Detroit-QB signed card?

AMLAN: No, Dr. Strange, I've just an unsigned Detroit-QB Thanksgiving treasure.

DR. STRANGE: Well, I'm making a matrix-mosaic of culture-symbol knowledge art.

AMLAN: Dr. Strange, you imply my unsigned card is 'distance' from linguistics?

DR. STRANGE: Maybe you'd write a story about your card linked to Selfie-jars.

AMLAN: That's a great notion...for Selfie-knit...I'll do it (thanx/farewell).

DR. STRANGE: Good luck, collector-man (Facebook-like).

Amlan Satan was moved to accept the challenge-proposal and set-about to craft a nifty American Homeland sports-fanfare and collection-activity short (story!) about incomplete-distances readings of the qualia of culture-knowledge, about a fictional sports-fan who had an (unsigned) accenting Thanksgiving-football superstitions reflective sports (football!) trading-card whose 1st-wife didn't appreciate but whose 2nd-wife (post-divorce) seemed to think was a real Earthling keratin-prize. It was a fun and funny and Selfie-life short (story!) and inspired Amlan to think about how Dr. Strange moved him to make the football-card tale (Facebook-like).

WIFE: Happy Thanksgiving, hubby.

AMLAN: Do you like the pumpkin-stew I've made?

WIFE: Sure...and your card-story is getting plenty of hits (ok).

AMLAN: Stranger story 'linked to it, wife...about inspiration to write it.

WIFE: Realism?

AMLAN: Something like that...social network exchanges for life's keratin.

WIFE: You'd imagine getting divorced from someone who didn't like your card.

AMLAN: Not really, but it's a fun/funny image, wife...Selfie-kiln.

WIFE: Good; luck's knucklebones.

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)