I know you all have 'em because you come to this site on a regular basis-nuff said.  :wink:

 

I like reading books on Sociology, especially urban sociology. I usually rent from the library since books cost so damn much. To me there's nothing better than chugging a bunch of coffee and reading something I like. If I talk about the stuff I read to most people, they usually have an attention span of about 5 seconds so I keep my ideas repressed.

 

So what's yours? Don't be afraid to talk about it. It could be anything - Cars, video games, Certain TV shows, magazines, Public Access Channel, playing Chess, Youtube, Magic: The Gathering, whatever.

Xena, Warrior Princess (seen every episode, twice)...and reading American history...

 

Xena, Warrior Princess (seen every episode, twice)...and reading American history...

 

 

I heard Thomas Jefferson believed states rights were more important than constitution's checks and balances. Is that correct?

Mine isn't a secret. 

 

 

I guess this doesn't really qualify as a hobby, but studying weekly supermarket fliers (or are they flyers?) for the lowest prices on stuff. Okay, that’s probably more pathetic than geeky. :oops:

 

 

This site. (No offense everyone, haha)

I listen to Elton John and Neil Diamond sometimes. Shhh don't tell nobody.

 

Edit: Actually, add Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and The Drifters to that. Say what you want about Michael Jackson but he's the most influential musician of all time.

Xactly

This site. (No offense everyone, haha)

My secret would be the fact that I like Boy Bands like Backstreet Boy, 98 degree's and so on. Its SOOOO Gay!!!! lol

Playing Civilization IV, and reading  Janet Evanovich books would probaly qualify.

I ride scooters and love 1970's Tokusatsu( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu )  I win! 

I have been watching General Hospital since 1977.  I even scheduled my classes around it in college because I didn't have a VCR.  It's the only soap I've ever watched.

 

I also read so much I must be considered a huge nerd.  I'd much rather read than watch TV. When I was a kid, me and my sister used to bring books to holiday gatherings and sit and read, people thought we were sick or anti-social but we weren't, we just liked reading.  I subscribe to about 10 magazines and read them all cover to cover as soon as I get them, and I am usually reading at least 3 regular books at a time.  I read almost zero fiction.  I have a couple of fiction writers I like who I will read if they put out a new book, but 99% of what I read is non-fiction.

I have been watching General Hospital since 1977.  I even scheduled my classes around it in college because I didn't have a VCR.  It's the only soap I've ever watched.

 

 

You and my father would get along well. My dad recorded GH everyday!

woo hoo!

woo hoo!

 

Oh and we couldn't interrupt him, while he was watching. 

 

I swear hes the biggest GH fan than any person I know.

 

If I asked him what happened to Luke, Laura, Angie and Jessie since 1984 he could tell me everything.

 

This is about all I know of GH.  This song was everywhere!  I bet you like my father have the album and single?

 

 

 

I walk around with a camera and capture the energy and excitement of the urban scene, and then share the photos with other geeks on a couple of weird web sites.

 

 

Closer to the mainstream:

 

Turning this:

 

 

into this:

 

I never bought any of the music made more popular on the show.  People are often surprised how many famous peeps either started there or have made an appearance. I remember when Liz Taylor was playing Helena Cassadine, and when Demi Moore got her first TV exposure as Jackie Templeton, same for John Stamos, he used to play a hood called Blackie Parrish and he hung out a bar called the Bucket of Blood.  I suppose it's the same with all soaps.

 

Closer to the mainstream:

 

Turning this:

 

 

into this:

 

 

You did that!? Nice.

 

Its like Queer Eye for the Straight Farmer

Xena, Warrior Princess (seen every episode, twice)...and reading American history...

 

 

I heard Thomas Jefferson believed states rights were more important than constitution's checks and balances. Is that correct?

 

Never heard that, but a) I would expect he'd have thought both to be vital, and b) I'm not a big Jefferson fan, to be honest.  The individual rights stuff, yes; the inspirational rhetoric, absolutely; but the practical day-to-day governing?  His abysmal understanding of economics?  His almost irrational foreign policy?  Thank you, no.

 

Mine would be playing xbox 360 and reading OXM (official xbox magazine). But one thing that I don't hide is my love of snowboarding.

I can blame my kids for this:

 

WWE

 

More mainstream:

Still collecting comics

I'm addicted to 90210 (watching it now) and MLB 06 The Show for PS2

I'm addicted to 90210 (watching it now) and MLB 06 The Show for PS2

 

Original or new 90210?

Definitely the original. Brandon is such a badass lol

Definitely the original. Brandon is such a badass lol

 

Brandon a "bad ass"?  LMAO  laaawd

Aside from my site and UrbanOhio? I don't have "geeky" hobbies as much as "really REALLY gay" interests - Top Model? Yeah - name the contestant and I can tell you how she could have won or whose runway walk was better that season. 90s dance pop? Yeah, sing the wrong lyrics to a Cathy Dennis song and you're getting called on it.  :oops:

 

Closer to the mainstream:

 

Turning this:

 

 

into this:

 

 

You did that!? Nice.

 

Its like Queer Eye for the Straight Farmer

 

:laugh: You'd be surprised how many closets there are down on the farm! :roll:

 

I just realized that I did that ten years ago. The project photos are here.

Tyra Banks seems like a b!tch. I saw a clip of Top Model where she went crazy on that one girl like "you don't know what I've been through, blah blah blah" and I've seen a few episodes of her Tyra show. She's always trying to act motherly to everyone and in her attempts to make people feel better about themselves she purposely tries to make herself look better than them at the same time. It's hilarious. She is hot though!

 

I read almost zero fiction.  I have a couple of fiction writers I like who I will read if they put out a new book, but 99% of what I read is non-fiction.

 

I hate fiction too. I'd rather learn something or read something useful. What kind of non-fiction do you read?

Yes, that would be cycle 4 - Tiffany was doing pretty well to that point but then went limp with the whole "I'm from the hood, I'll never be anything but hood, blah blah blah fear-of-improving-my-lot-in-life crap". So Tyra called Tiffany out on it, and with a lot of creative editing, one of the most infamous scenes in ANTM was created.

I watched GH in college.  Not only was it a good conversation topic with women, but the TV lounge in Thwing was a great place to meet them.  I continued to watch a few more years.

 

During the late 1980s I think the show made a deliberate effort to draw male viewers.  They had a lot of spy plots, plus it was ofteh dopwnright funny.  The Donnelly-Krumholtz wedding was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen on TV.

I grow mold.  I like to bring various liquids home in clear plastic cups and watch them separate for weeks.  Starbucks Frappucinos are the best.

Tyra Banks seems like a b!tch. I saw a clip of Top Model where she went crazy on that one girl like "you don't know what I've been through, blah blah blah" and I've seen a few episodes of her Tyra show. She's always trying to act motherly to everyone and in her attempts to make people feel better about themselves she purposely tries to make herself look better than them at the same time. It's hilarious. She is hot though!

 

First Beyond-Say now Tyra.  I think you do like Black women!

 

Lastly she isn't a bitch.

Tyra Banks seems like a b!tch. I saw a clip of Top Model where she went crazy on that one girl like "you don't know what I've been through, blah blah blah" and I've seen a few episodes of her Tyra show. She's always trying to act motherly to everyone and in her attempts to make people feel better about themselves she purposely tries to make herself look better than them at the same time. It's hilarious. She is hot though!

 

First Beyond-Say now Tyra.  I think you do like Black women!

 

 

I watched GH in college. Not only was it a good conversation topic with women, but the TV lounge in Thwing was a great place to meet them. I continued to watch a few more years.

 

During the late 1980s I think the show made a deliberate effort to draw male viewers. They had a lot of spy plots, plus it was ofteh dopwnright funny. The Donnelly-Krumholtz wedding was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen on TV.

 

Sean and Tiffany recently made a brief re-appearance in connection with a storyline about Robert Scorpio almost kicking the bucket from colon cancer.  Sean still looks great but Tiffany, hoo boy.

I can blame my kids for this:

 

WWE

 

More mainstream:

Still collecting comics

 

I watched WWE until I was an upperclassmen in HS (6 or 7 years ago). I know it is suppose to be somewhat racy, over the top, and outlandish...but at some point for me they jumped the shark. Although I did order Wrestlemania a year or two ago for old times sake and actually somewhat enjoyed it.

 

My 21 year old brother still likes to buy comic books. I don't buy them but if there is one laying around I'll read it.

 

 

 

I watched a lot of wrestling when I was a kid in the '80s and early '90s. I've determined why I don't like it any more: The wrestlers just don't have the outlandish personalities and outfits that they did from the '50s to the '90s. They're all too "cool" and "tough", and they mostly just wear street clothes. And they used to have all these classy, sexy female valets. Now all the women on wrestling (both managers/valets and wrestlers) look like porn stars.

My brush with wrestling greatness was serving Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage at the nightclub I worked at in the early 90's. They both drank Coors light (ewe) and the Hulk was a great tipper. the Hulk was a regular on the Tampa Bay area beach bar scene.

 

Other than that I have picked up news over the years from my clients. For some reason a lot of people with cognitive disabilities love wrestling and have encyclopedic knowledge of their stats.

Other than that I have picked up news over the years from my clients. For some reason a lot of people with cognitive disabilities love wrestling and have encyclopedic knowledge of their stats.

 

I have come to realize the same thing. There are 50+ year old dudes that come to work and talk about who won, who can beat who, etc. I personally quit watching wrestling after WCW went under. I never had any interest in Vince McMahon.

 

My geeky hobby? Reading and contributing to Urban Ohio.

My brush with wrestling greatness was serving Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage at the nightclub I worked at in the early 90's. They both drank Coors light (ewe) and the Hulk was a great tipper. the Hulk was a regular on the Tampa Bay area beach bar scene.

 

Other than that I have picked up news over the years from my clients. For some reason a lot of people with cognitive disabilities love wrestling and have encyclopedic knowledge of their stats.

 

HEY! I'm not disabled.

My geeky hobby? Reading and contributing to Urban Ohio.

 

Same...

Roadgeeking, railfanning and exploring abandonments.

My brush with wrestling greatness was serving Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage at the nightclub I worked at in the early 90's. They both drank Coors light (ewe) and the Hulk was a great tipper. the Hulk was a regular on the Tampa Bay area beach bar scene.

 

Other than that I have picked up news over the years from my clients. For some reason a lot of people with cognitive disabilities love wrestling and have encyclopedic knowledge of their stats.

 

HEY! I'm not disabled.

 

nothing wrong with the hobby. It just appeals to the less complicated side of the spectrum of interests.

>Now all the women on wrestling (both managers/valets and wrestlers) look like porn stars.

 

I would get so wound up watching wrestling that my mom banned it.  I would laugh uncontrollably when George "The Animal" Steele would dig his teeth into the turnbuckles...I'm doing it now just thinking about it!  That and when The Million Dollar Man hid under the ring for 20 minutes during the first or second Royal Rumble.  Just the sound of Mean Gene announcing upcoming pay-per-view events in that fake British accent was too much.           

In the fifties when we first got televison in our area, my grandmother, then in her seventies, really got into watching wrestling.

 

She was a small, stout woman, always impeccably groomed and dressed and of gentle, quiet, reserved demeanor. I was in my early teens then, and until she started watching wrestling on TV I had never, ever, heard her raise her voice at anyone or anything. It was kind of a shock at first, and then funny, to hear her in her room yelling, "Kill 'im! Kill 'im! Stomp on him!"

That's awsome

In the fifties when we first got televison in our area, my grandmother, then in her seventies, really got into watching wrestling.

 

She was a small, stout woman, always impeccably groomed and dressed and of gentle, quiet, reserved demeanor. I was in my early teens then, and until she started watching wrestling on TV I had never, ever, heard her raise her voice at anyone or anything. It was kind of a shock at first, and then funny, to hear her in her room yelling, "Kill 'im! Kill 'im! Stomp on him!"

 

Now we see where you get "sweet and innocent" from..........  8)

I can blame my kids for this:

 

WWE

 

More mainstream:

Still collecting comics

 

I watched WWE until I was an upperclassmen in HS (6 or 7 years ago). I know it is suppose to be somewhat racy, over the top, and outlandish...but at some point for me they jumped the shark. Although I did order Wrestlemania a year or two ago for old times sake and actually somewhat enjoyed it.

 

My 21 year old brother still likes to buy comic books. I don't buy them but if there is one laying around I'll read it.

 

 

 

I watched a lot of wrestling when I was a kid in the '80s and early '90s. I've determined why I don't like it any more: The wrestlers just don't have the outlandish personalities and outfits that they did from the '50s to the '90s. They're all too "cool" and "tough", and they mostly just wear street clothes. And they used to have all these classy, sexy female valets. Now all the women on wrestling (both managers/valets and wrestlers) look like porn stars.

 

 

I lived with my dad for 9 months when I was 15. His girlfriend would watch wrestling all the time. She admitted she watched it because of all the buffed out men in spandex hehehe.

 

When I go to the Arnold Classic I usually get to meet a lot of wrestlers and UFC fighters or at least shake their hand. It's funny how most of those guys are a lot smaller in person. I think when they coordinate matches, they must have guys about the same size fighting because John Cena is only 6'0. Jay Cutler and Ronnie Coleman were avg height too. Vanderlei Silva is like 5'8. I got to talk to him - he's really cool and down to earth. You're so used to seeing 'em on tv talking smack to everybody but they're really reserved and down to earth in person.

 

That reminds me - The Arnold is coming up, in good ol' Columbus :) If you guys have never been to it - you should go. It's not just a bodybuilding competition to watch buffed out dudes flexing. They have a bunch of sporting events and you can meet a lot of celebrities. Arnold is the star of the show but you'll also see guys like Triple H, various football players, Ronnie Coleman and Jay Cutler, Lou Ferrigno, Chuck Liddell etc. Actually, I don't even think people recognized Lou Ferrigno, he was all by himself waiting for someone to ask for an autograph lol Poor Lou, he's all washed up.

I'm a map geek, I thought I got over it, but it got mixed up with my urbanism and a blog so now I've got to cover just about every Columbus neighborhood including ones off the radar including Eastmoor, Westgate and North Central. The maps are all nice and done, I just need to do some photo shoots, though I'll have to wait for the weather . Not exactly a secret, but I have plenty of custom google maps.

 

Aside from that reading a book every now and then. Currently reading El Mundo by Spanish author Juan José Millás and finished العدامة (Al 3adamah) by Turki Al-Hamad (in both the original Arabic and in English, the translation was much too British for me) a liberal, Saudi writer. I like the former better, but other one kept my attention.

I'm a map geek, I thought I got over it, but it got mixed up with my urbanism and a blog so now I've got to cover just about every Columbus neighborhood including ones off the radar including Eastmoor, Westgate and North Central. The maps are all nice and done, I just need to do some photo shoots, though I'll have to wait for the weather . Not exactly a secret, but I have plenty of custom google maps.

 

Where are Westgate and North Central? I've been looking for apts./houses in Columbus and have seen a few places listed as Eastgate too. Eastgate?????? No, that's in Cincinnati! I mean, I know where San Margharita, Pleasant Corners, and Beals are! I lived around Columbus until I was 20 and again in 2005-2006. Where are these mysterious locales?

Westgate is like a subneighborhood in the Hilltop, on the west side. It would be almost exactly like living in Covedale. Think Covedale.