I found an interesting news story today:
Highlights:
"If you'd have told me 10 years ago that one of the biggest new phenomena of the 21st century was people playing cards, I would have said you were absolutely crazy," says Robert Thompson, professor of pop culture at Syracuse University.
"There's a whole kind of hip element to it -- now I need this," says Thompson, who finds the entire phenomenon curious. "Right smack in the middle of the 21st century, sophistication is marrying itself to a very old-fashioned notion of a table where you play games, long before television, video games and home computers. The deck of cards now has become cool again."
I was a cool card player before card playing became cool.
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