Sotheby'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's a LOT lower than estimated market price of a Little Nemo original because the bottom panel is missing. You know, I am almost tempted to go ahead and get a bank loan to fund it, but unfortunately, logic - 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 - prevents me from doing so. The Logic here at work is - 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'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' Reebok shoes and iPod Picos ( Operated-By-Thought-models) and their education. But one must know one's place, and it is, simply put, a belief on my part - I will own Harold Foster Prince Valiant Sunday page, an Alex Raymond Flash Gordon Sunday, a Herriman Krazy Kat strip, a Burne Hogarth Tarzan and an Eisner Spirit page, but their time is not now. Not just yet.

Glad I could get that off my chest. Phew.