Sometimes I think about my weird interest in dead famous people and their famous autographs. Like most things, this interest is about money and death, but is there more?

I'm unusually interested in the idea of selling the autographs of dead celebrities. Right now I'm waiting for Jim Unger to die so I sell a book of Herman strips that he signed. Sometimes I worry about the time found an autographed copy of Murder in Manhattan but didn't grab it because I couldn't remember if Steve Allen was alive (he wasn't) until it was too late.

I attribute my interest in selling dead celebrity autographs to my love of delicious money and my excessive not-delicious morbidity, but there's something missing here. Life insurance, for example, involves money and morbidity, but I don't even remember the difference between an annuity and term life insurance. What, then, is special about autographs? Is it the famous people? Is it about collecting stuff? I don't know.

Maybe I care because my brain thought I needed another hobby at the time.