I have a lot of hobbies, which results in me making very slow progress in all of them. :P Among them:
*anime - huge backlog of DVDs to watch, some dating back to 2001, sadly
*Netflix - currently watching the entire Star Trek franchise; done with TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, and the first 9 movies; currently simultaneously watching VOY (midway through season 6) and ENT (midway through season 3); will likely find something else to watch once I'm done
*blog - currently reviewing the classic Nickelodeon series, "Hey Dude", on a weekly basis
*fanfics - got a few half-baked ideas in my head; might or might not write them
*original fiction - I've got a few series started, but they've all slowed to a crawl in favor of my novel
*video games - yeah, as if I have any free time left :P
*novels - got a few of them around the house, dating back years, that I have yet to get around to reading
*fan editing - I fan-edit movies (yes, there's a whole community for it on the Internet); currently trying to turn the first Terminator movie into a side-story to the 1980s anime cyberpunk classic, "Bubblegum Crisis"; also been working on a massive, extended edition of "Highlander: Endgame" for the past few years
Besides reading Archie comics & other comics. I like coloring in one of many stress coloring books. I wish they made a Archie one. I like watching dvds. I have so many. I also love to take naps. I like to excrise dvds . I have Richard Simmons. I have to do them when I'm in my wheelchair. I love going to the Library & going to the thrift store.
I've watched a lot of movies over the past decade. I've been working my way through all the movies ever nominated in one of the major categories for an Academy Award. I've seen all of the Best Picture nominees (except for three that aren't available) and am working on Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. I've also been watching movies that make a number of the Best of lists from AFI or other sources. I'll catch up on tv shows when I finish off the movie lists later this year or next year.
I read a lot of novels, mostly science fiction and fantasy. I've averaged around 115 novels per year over the last 15 years. A lot of them these days are audiobooks which I can listen to in the car, when I'm walking the dog, working around the house and so on.
I also play and watch a lot of sports.
Video games, mostly Nintendo...
I like to travel to places in New York City and New Jersey by public transit. I figured out how to get to the Westfield Garden State Plaza mall by public transportation and I figured out how to get to the Roosevelt Field Mall in Long Island. I know how to get to Queens Center Mall in Queens and Kingz Plaza Mall in Brooklyn.
Besides that, I take interest in other comics like Luann. I also watch a lot of 90's and 80s sitcoms and I like collecting them on DVD. I also listen to 90s R&B which is another interest of mine because I look up about the artist of the song
LET'S SEE:
1,200 MOVIES
5,700 TV EPISODES
65,000 COMICS
575,000 BOOKS
2,200 MAGAZINES
230 ANIME EPISODES
1.8 TB OF "OTHER"
2 TB OF YOUTUBE.
I'm pretty into...
instagram
making music
the jumble and the cryptoquip
wwe
pop music
tetris
ernie bushmiller's nancy
alf
action figures and dolls
a bunch more. I love stuff.
Books. Old movies.
listening to music, reading, watching movies, gardening
I play guitar, music, skateboarding, surfing, my girlfriend.
I play the drums, like listening to music, and I also like going to the park and swinging on the swings.
Other comic books, newspaper comic strips, some manga & anime (I'm picky), kaiju & tokusatsu, science fiction, cyberpunk & steampunk, 19th century scientific romances, pulp magazines, old paperbacks, music, old movies, cult movies, old tv shows, old time radio shows, cliffhanger serials, animated cartoons, toys, action figures, trading cards, cereal boxes, lunch boxes, tin toys, robots, monsters, dinosaurs/prehistoric animals, art and fiction in general. Astronomy, cosmology, philosophy, mythology, anthropology, palentology, psychology, history, quantum physics.
Quote from: 60sBettyandReggie on April 04, 2016, 08:24:05 PM
listening to music, reading, watching movies, gardening
can't believe I forgot to mention Journaling. I have always kept journals of different kinds but lately I had become lazy with them but I have been looking around the internet at pics of people's art journals and have been reading books about them and I am so inspired once again. I already have two new journals that I'm gonna start hopefully today. So excited!!
I also like to be silly and sing karaoke and dance goofy with my friends when we are over each others houses.
female driven comics
manga
90s pop culture
90s pop music
dogs especially Australian Shepherds
reading celebrity biographies
fandom and collector culture
Cantonese food
sushi
watching YouTubers
Quote from: irishmoxie on April 25, 2016, 09:46:25 PM
female driven comics
manga
90s pop culture
90s pop music
dogs especially Australian Shepherds
reading celebrity biographies
fandom and collector culture
Cantonese food
sushi
watching YouTubers
There have been a few books focusing on this topic (that tend to concentrate on the history, rather than the sociology), most of them written from the traditionally male perspective. One of the very earliest books to focus on fan activity was
The World of Fanzines: A Special Form of Communication by Dr. Fredric Wertham (yes -- the same one who wrote
Seduction of the Innocent).
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 05, 2016, 07:38:27 AM
Quote from: irishmoxie on April 25, 2016, 09:46:25 PM
female driven comics
manga
90s pop culture
90s pop music
dogs especially Australian Shepherds
reading celebrity biographies
fandom and collector culture
Cantonese food
sushi
watching YouTubers
There have been a few books focusing on this topic (that tend to concentrated on the history, rather than the sociology), most of them written from the traditionally male perspective. One of the very earliest books to focus on fan activity was The World of Fanzines: A Special Form of Communication by Dr. Fredric Wertham (yes -- the same one who wrote Seduction of the Innocent).
I'm probably more interested in the psychology or sociology of it. And at looking at pictures of people's collections. I remember making a fanzine when I was a kid even though I didn't know it was called that. I think it was based on a girl band B*Witched I think. Last year I went to an indie book store in Chicago that had a huge section dedicated to fanzines. Unfortunately none of them were on topics I was interested in but it was neat to see how much effort people had put into them. It's a bit of a dying art.
Another thing I remembered I'm interested in is unsolved mysteries and ghost stories. I was obsessed with the TV show of the same name along with the show Are You Afraid of the Dark? and the Goosebumps books. I remember Tales From the Crypt being too scary for me as a kid. But watching it now the acting is a bit lame. Funny how I didn't know or had more tolerance for that aspect as a kid. I was reading a cracked.com article today about unsolved cases.
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 05, 2016, 11:17:36 AM
Another thing I remembered I'm interested in is unsolved mysteries and ghost stories. I was obsessed with the TV show of the same name along with the show Are You Afraid of the Dark? and the Goosebumps books. I remember Tales From the Crypt being too scary for me as a kid. But watching it now the acting is a bit lame. Funny how I didn't know or had more tolerance for that aspect as a kid. I was reading a cracked.com article today about unsolved cases.
Unsolved mysteries can be fun... but ultimately there are no resolutions, and every theory is purely speculative (once a case goes cold, there's hardly ever a chance for a more conclusive investigation). There have been a number of them examined in excruciating detail to the point where it can consume many years of a single person's life (and usually result in one if not several whole books on the topic). We all know the more famous ones - Jack the Ripper, the Marie Celeste, etc. I can't think of any examples of famous unsolved mysteries that later got solved by the discovery of new evidence or connections previously unsuspected.
I never really got too into ghost stories, but the paranormal in general (and psychic phenomena, cryptozoology and ufology in particular) have always interested me. UFO lore especially - there are some key links to people in the science fiction field that fascinate me.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 05, 2016, 12:03:25 PM
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 05, 2016, 11:17:36 AM
Another thing I remembered I'm interested in is unsolved mysteries and ghost stories. I was obsessed with the TV show of the same name along with the show Are You Afraid of the Dark? and the Goosebumps books. I remember Tales From the Crypt being too scary for me as a kid. But watching it now the acting is a bit lame. Funny how I didn't know or had more tolerance for that aspect as a kid. I was reading a cracked.com article today about unsolved cases.
Unsolved mysteries can be fun... but ultimately there are no resolutions, and every theory is purely speculative (once a case goes cold, there's hardly ever a chance for a more conclusive investigation). There have been a number of them examined in excruciating detail to the point where it can consume many years of a single person's life (and usually result in one if not several whole books on the topic). We all know the more famous ones - Jack the Ripper, the Marie Celeste, etc. I can't think of any examples of famous unsolved mysteries that later got solved by the discovery of new evidence or connections previously unsuspected.
There's a lot of previously unsolved cases (rarely notorious ones however) that are solved all the time — usually by DNA testing that was unavailable at the time, or finding a body or evidence somewhere unexpected by accident ...
It's actually easier to solve centuries old mysteries when new insights, forensics and information — and an objective view ...
QuoteI never really got too into ghost stories, but the paranormal in general (and psychic phenomena, cryptozoology and ufology in particular) have always interested me. UFO lore especially - there are some key links to people in the science fiction field that fascinate me.
Ghosts and UFOs are interesting but more easily proven false — still there's a ;ot that is up in the air (in many senses) ... ultimately there are almost certainly extraterrestrial intelligences, but there's really only one good case for a possible contact ... Hubbard's followers would be laughable if they weren't potentially dangerous.
As for cryptozoology — it's hard to hide a breeding population of a significantly large species of anything in the modern world without it being found pretty easily; that said the largest living organism in the world is living in the US and almost no one even knows it exists ...
I probably answer this already but I'm starting to color in my stress free coloring books. I love going to the Library. I love reading graphic novels.
i love writing and drawing my own comics,
I play runescape too much :P lol.
I spend too much time on youtube :P lol.
Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on May 05, 2016, 12:03:25 PM
Quote from: irishmoxie on May 05, 2016, 11:17:36 AM
Another thing I remembered I'm interested in is unsolved mysteries and ghost stories. I was obsessed with the TV show of the same name along with the show Are You Afraid of the Dark? and the Goosebumps books. I remember Tales From the Crypt being too scary for me as a kid. But watching it now the acting is a bit lame. Funny how I didn't know or had more tolerance for that aspect as a kid. I was reading a cracked.com article today about unsolved cases.
Unsolved mysteries can be fun... but ultimately there are no resolutions, and every theory is purely speculative (once a case goes cold, there's hardly ever a chance for a more conclusive investigation). There have been a number of them examined in excruciating detail to the point where it can consume many years of a single person's life (and usually result in one if not several whole books on the topic). We all know the more famous ones - Jack the Ripper, the Marie Celeste, etc. I can't think of any examples of famous unsolved mysteries that later got solved by the discovery of new evidence or connections previously unsuspected.
I never really got too into ghost stories, but the paranormal in general (and psychic phenomena, cryptozoology and ufology in particular) have always interested me. UFO lore especially - there are some key links to people in the science fiction field that fascinate me.
I really enjoy reading unsolved mysteries too. I have a thick book about them. And I am somewhat obsessed with Jack the Ripper, I have read so many books about him throughout the years.
Quote from: invisifan on May 05, 2016, 08:00:56 PM
As for cryptozoology — it's hard to hide a breeding population of a significantly large species of anything in the modern world without it being found pretty easily; that said the largest living organism in the world is living in the US and almost no one even knows it exists ...
There's a living organism larger than the blue whale living in the US and almost no one knows it exists?
Yes... (In Michigan)
Quote from: invisifan on May 06, 2016, 12:58:26 AM
Yes... (In Michigan)
Lake Michigan monster? Pressie of Lake Superior? Larger in mass than the blue whale? No idea, really.
I was thinking something like the Loch Ness monster or abominable snowman.
No, real and verifiable ... though I can't find the Michigan reference now, just the one in Oregon... Which is about 9 square kilometres.
Must be some coral reef or an amoeba like organism.
More common/mundane
Other comic books, movies and classic TV shows, mystery and suspense novels, theology, golden-oldies rock 'n' roll and classic rock, philosophy, the history of pop culture, writing (I regularly write columns for two publications, have had 4 books published and self-published several more), weight training, walking, eating (that's why I need the weight training and walking), dancing with my wife, classic theatrical cartoon shorts (especially Popeye and Warner Brothers), my Olive Oyl Yahoo Group.
Doing anything with my 9 year old daughter. I also like jogging, classic rock music from the 60's and 70's, and horror movies.
I like hiking, camping, and spending as much time with my girlfriend.
I love to knit, do counted cross-stitch (although I haven't done much of that in a while), read, watch old movies, write, and just go down to the water in the evening (after the crowds are gone) and just watch the waves.