What's your Pastime?

[Miss Neecerie]

I know that this has been touched on in a bunch of threads, but none specifically for this.

So, whats your hobby? Vintage or not, enquiring minds want to know your hobbies, besides reading the Lounge.

 

[Dr. Shocker]

Hobbys (anything not making you money) hmmmmm

Drinking & Smoking
Cult of the Eye
Rocky Horror
Lobbying for Smokers and Personal Rights
Cat'in
Tikiphile

not neccesarly in this order

 

[Rosie]

I bake, sew, garden, paint, draw, read and shop. Since my shopping as I guess most here, requires a bit more than just dropping in at the local mall, I guess I consider it to be a hobby.

 

[Lauren]

*Travel
*General bargain hunting including Thrift Stores, Estate Sales, and flea markets.
*Making over said finds to something useable.
*Studying and making historical costumes
*Writing
*Painting
*Collecting antiquitarian books and magazines
*Surfing and skateboarding on occasion.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Read alot.
Listen to music alot.
Alter all those beautiful vintage clothes that don't quite fit me.
Thrift store hunting.
Play squash and soccer.

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[Benny Holiday]

Ten pin bowling . . . looove bowling!
Cruising in my '60 Chevy
Reading (anything and everything!)
Song writing
Bushwalking
Listening/dancing to big band Swing
Day trips to fun places

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

Surfing the 'net, watching old movies and reading.

If I find a house with a garage, I may get back into playing with old cars.

 

[Zach R.]

My most time consuming hobby is traveling down the information super highway, leaves little time for anything else.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Pass time...

I spend way too much time surfing the World Wide Web ...searching...searching....searching....

Besides all this Golden Era, WWII, USAAF, Howard Hughes stuff, I'm a self-certified Beatleologist! (Yes, I still suffer from BM -Beatlemania!).

I also, when time permits, build plastic models; airplanes mostly.

When money permits, I fly privately. But, since time AND money don't permit, I surf the World Wide Web... searching... searching...searching...

-dixon cannon

 

[scotrace]

Different

I collect regional accents and try to duplicate them, adding them to my collection.
Same thing with regional english terms or localisms. Fascinating stuff. Did you know that probably the closest surviving thing to Elizabethan English is to be heard in parts of West Virginia? I used to work with a fellow from very rural Indiana. He had a high-pitched voice and I always listened to him intently because he was close to what Lincoln probably sounded like.

I read a lot.
I love to cook.
I do all my own carpentry, cabinet making and home repairs.
I love to travel and never get to.
I like to shop for the rare and unique.

 

[Andykev]

Everything I do costs a lot of money...

I fly light aircraft (Cessna, Piper, Beechcraft, Citabria, and Twin Engine)
I garden and grow veggies
I trap and skeet shoot, and sometimes the pistol/rifle range
I read a lot
I watch baseball (Go Giants and A's)
I love movies, esp. classic 40's
I spend lots of time with my doggie, the Golden, "Riley"
I spend most of my time with my family

Phew.....

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Web surfing and chatting.
Ebaying for WW2 and other vintage goodies.
Reading.
Helping an arts group I belong to, to restore an old turn-of-the-century city building for use as an art gallery/cafe.
Photography.
And of course haunting my local favorite antique shops.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

I collect regional accents and try to duplicate them, adding them to my collection.
Same thing with regional english terms or localisms. Fascinating stuff. Did you know that probably the closest surviving thing to Elizabethan English is to be heard in parts of West Virginia? I used to work with a fellow from very rural Indiana. He had a high-pitched voice and I always listened to him intently because he was close to what Lincoln probably sounded like.

Interesting!
West Virginian mountain music is also very similar to the music that was brought here by the earliest settlers. I couldn't tell them apart, actually!

 

[Jack Scorpion]

-Reading detective novels (James Ellroy, Walter Mosley).
-Playing catch (baseball).
-Renting movies (Netflix).
-TV (Rescue Me, Star Trek, Monk, Dead Zone, Numb3rs, House).
-Writing detective stories.
-The Beach (Venice).
-Dining (cheapeats).
-LA Times Crossword puzzle.

 

[LizzieMaine]

*Sewing

*Collecting vintage radio programs on tape (over 5000 hours worth at last count)

*Collecting vintage magazines, newspapers, catalogs, and other such printed matter.

*Watching and talking about movies.

*Reading

*Walking

*Riding my bike (when my sciatica allows it, which ain't much lately...)

*Living and dying with the Boston Red Sox

*Eating ice cream

 

[Woanzenagi]

Fixing up a 60+ year old house

Teaching my new dog some old tricks

Golf

Online poker

Wagering on greyhound races

 

[Samsa]

1. Reading (especially 20th century American poetry).
2. Playing (or attempting to play) classical guitar.
3. Listening to music (anything from Segovia to Metallica to Hank Williams Sr.).
4. Making a fool out of myself on the golf course.
5. Drinking unto merriment.
6. Exercising.

 

[decodoll]

~Sewing and collecting vintage patterns
~Millinery (up until recently a hobby, now a business )
~Reading (right now a series with a crime solving milliner...go figure )
~Collecting hair curling implements and instructions
~eBay shopping
~Fashion drawing

 

[raiderrescuer]

Pastime...

Outdoorsy type stuff and especially going to the Cabin...it was built in the early Thirties and there is some pretty neat history there. (The windows are from an old store that burnt down, you can actually see where the glass got so hot it started to melt.)

Too bad some "Tweakers" broke in and stole the original Logs...lost a lot of history, everytime someone visited they had to write something in the log.

 

[Citizen Ed]

Reading- mostly mystery and historical fiction
NFL- specificaly my Beloved Bengals
Movies- thank God for TCM and the Sundance Channel
Videogames- weekends with Son of Ed Part 2

And I'm a conspiracy buff so I troll libraries, bookstores, newspapers, the Web and peoples heads for conspiracy theories.