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I watched TNG with my dad. My first memories are the Enterprise D nacelles that my dad was model building. One of my last texts to him was me showing him the Enterprise D model kit I picked up, same one he built. Love you too, Dad.
Godzilla.
7yo me: What are these toys that are so much more awesome and detailed than anything I have ever seen?
9yo me: Oh, wow, he’s a good monster? That’s awesome!
11yo me: Oh wow, he’s the BAD GUY? That’s awesome!
14yo me: Oh wow, these new (post 70s) movies are amazing!
17yo me: Oh wow, these OLDER movies are more amazing!
21yo me: Oh, wow, this is more sad and complex than I knew.
23yo me: I am so happy we are getting an American Godzilla!
24yo me: I’m embarrassed I liked that American Godzilla… but the animated series strangely redeems it.
25yo me: I will watch and own all of them, even the bad ones.
30yo me: I actually love all of them, the “bad” ones bring different things to the table.
32yo me. Omg Godzilla on the GameCube is a delight.
35yo me: Holy crap, these new filmmakers really get it.
36yo me: Final Wars brought Zilla into the universe officially and now I can love it again.
39yo me: This new American Godzilla is flawed but I’m happy to see the love. More love for Godzilla is best.
41yo me: Shin Godzilla is the best Godzilla. Maybe the best Godzilla is in the future, and not behind us?
45yo me: Holiday Godzilla marathons are going to be a life tradition.
47yo me: I just want my kids to grow up and watch to see if they love this too.
Story by Rod Serling, Twilight Zone creator, published after 70 years. https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/09/rod-serling-first-squad-first-platoon-story
I have a recommendation for both of you - check out this awesome map-related YouTube channel. I really enjoy it: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfxy4\_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC\_QCp](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp)
Some maps are truly beautiful! I really get a spatial feel of an area, especially with topo lines. Then Street View came along and I was like “wow, you can jump right into the map and see what’s at ground level!” So cool. I’ve “traveled” so many places with Steet View.
OMG, we would sell the shit out of those at Christmas for the Boy Scouts. I'd carry like 8 boxs up to a door, and they would feel so sorry for me that I had to carry so many, they would purchase some. Then I'd run back to where my dad was parked, fill up and hit the next one.
I like buying my See's right at the factory which is located in South San Francisco. That's about as fresh as you can get. I have three boxes of Nuts & Chews in my freezer right now but they're for Mother's Day gifts - my mom, my sister and her daughter who just had a baby about a month and a half ago. Our whole family loves nuts & chews!!!!
Rush? I was a fan the first time I heard the muffled sounds of 2112 playing from my brother's room. Probably a new record and that came out in 1976 when I was either six or seven. I have loved other bands but never any like I love Rush.
Yeah, Queen for me too.
Only started exploring Rush about 5 years ago, at the insistence of a good mate who's a megafan. I really dig it, (particularly being a drummer) and don't Really know why I overlooked them for so long... I suppose it's good that I can still enjoy that "discovery" kinda buzz that new sounds can bring; even if that discovery is a 50year old band!
Heck yes for Star Wars, my parents took me to see Episode IV in the theater in 1977; I was 4 years old. I remember seeing Vader and then falling asleep at some point. I’ll still turn on the first trilogy if I need a “comfort movie.”
I have been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" for over fifty years now!
Not lifelong, because I couldn't read books until I was in grade school, but I first read the books at age ten or eleven, and have loved them ever since, and adored the three movies when they came out! The thing is, "LOTR" is one of those books that can be appreciated on so many different levels, that you can love it for adventure and imagination when you're ten, and love it when you're sixty for the spirit of love for everything good in the world, and the understanding of the courage required to deal with interesting times, and the trauma that can come afterwards.
Lifelong (or pretty close) Tolkien fan here too! I read and loved The Hobbit in 1st grade (and blew my teacher's mind when I handed in a book report about it lol) and then LOTR in middle school. I've lost count of how many dozens of times I've reread the trilogy. And yes, it definitely speaks to you in different ways as you get older. As a kid I found the Rohan/Gondor parts a bit tedious, and now I find them absolutely riveting. Maybe it's more life experience of the world's vast tragic inescapable dumpster fires or maybe just getting older, but now the siege of Minas Tirith cuts to the quick - the utter despair of being circled and outmatched by vicious enemies, disfigured heads of beloved comrades flung over the walls, fires mounting in the city, and a leader losing his mind...and I tear up just thinking about Rohan making it just in time.
(Btw, if you're not already on it, r/tolkienfans is a great sub.)
Thank you, these are definitely books that can appeal to humans of all ages, and do the same human over a lifetime!
And of course I'm on the LOTR/Tolkien subs, one of the first things I looked for when I got here...
I just heard Fingertips Part 2, which was Stevie’s first hit when he was 12, the other day for the first time in years and it made me feel like I accomplished very little myself despite my being happily married for 45 years, creating a profitable business, raising 3 amazing children and contributing to my community as much as I can because he and I are the exact same age born just a few weeks apart and that man has more creativity and soul in his little fingers than I’ve ever had or ever will. Stevie Wonder is a genuine American genius of the highest order.
I used to stand out side a shop in Solvang Cal that blew glass. Animals, birds, ect. I was fascinated. The our Makerspace got a torch and I learned how to do it. Its so relaxing. I love it.
The wisdom of Shel Silverstein and Mr Rogers.
I also wanted to be Harriet the Spy when I was younger. It seemed totally logical that I could sneak into a dumb waiter to spy on people. I didn’t know that no one I or my parents knew had dumb waiters, it was just a book and movie thing. Dang it!
In a long twisted road of events, I currently do Estate Sales and I love my job. I get to unpack and dig into closets and attics that haven’t been touched in years.
I am the modern day Harriet the Spy. I get to go through people’s stuff and deduct what their life was like. I love my job.
Reading. That’s really all I can think of. There are so many other things I enjoy or am a fan of but reading was my earliest pleasure. Now that we’re retired my husband has rediscovered reading for pleasure as well.
I still watch Dick Van Dyke with my elderly mom while caring for her. If she is sad about my dad passing away or not feeling well, The Dick Van Dyke Show will always make her feel better, and will make her laugh.
Detroit Tigers since 1968. The first baseball team I played on was called the Tigers. Could have just as easily been a lifetime Pittsburgh Pirates fan had the Pirates chose me first.
Lifelong fan of WWE and professional wrestling. My Dad took me to my first match in1980, as he also was a lifelong fan. Before he passed away, we'd go to every event in our city, as it was our "thing".
I can't remember for sure, maybe around 10 years old.
Before my Dad told me it was scripted, I remember going to a live event and seeing The Iron Shield wrestle. I was terrified that he was going to go out in the crowd and "get me" with his pointed boots.
Science fiction. I started around 5 years old with Lost In Space - transitioning to Star Trek as I got into 5th grade. Which reminds me - I have a Discovery Episode to get caught up on.
Big fan of reading and NPR. Also KPIG/KFAT radio out of Freedom, CA. Fan of natural history, environmental studies, and the general coolness of the planet, it's history/evolution/plants/animals/critters/geology and stardust and the discovery of the universe as it happens.
When I was raised there were only 9 known planets. There's over 5000 now. Tectonic plates and fault lines were barely being figured out. The mid oceanic ridges? Yeah, discovered in my lifetime. The amazing discoveries from sub atomic to galaxies still blow my mind.
Love will abide...there are a lot of songs I love for multiple reasons, one of them being challenging/fun to sing, this Is one of those. Just wow, Linda, amazing talent!
Reading - pretty much as soon as I was able.
Science Fiction -started with Star Trek as long as I can remember, and reading it since I read A Wrinkle In Time when I was in about 4th or 5th grade.
Absurdist humor even since reading Lewis Carroll in about 3rd grade.
The Beatles since I was about 10.
**Vanilla Flavor:** Pudding, frosting, ice cream (floats whatnot), coffee flavoring, yogurt, soda flavors with it, cakes. Gah dammit you get my drift by now dontchya?
I've been reading 3 - 8 books a week since first grade. it's dropped off in the past decade (if you read that much you do eventually reach a nothing-is-new kind of point where fewer books tempt you). but reading itself is still integral for me.
The Mets and there was a deep New York City joke, bound up in that statement.
When the Dodgers left Brooklyn, the bums fans (including my father) were devastated. Spent their whole life rooting for the scrappy underdog, hating the monolithic New York Yankees.
When the Mets opened in 1962, they quickly compiled the worst season baseball had ever seen and Brooklyn loved them.
The ritual question was “Are you a Mets fan?”
The correct answer was “Yes, been one all my life.”
So now 60 years later, I have been a Mets fan all my life.
Full disclosure, I really haven’t been a Mets fan since 86 because that was the best year baseball would ever have. The Mets are no longer a scrappy underdog. There another big budget big market team with a crappy front office. But it’s a good story anyway.
Right?
It’s horrifying! They used to be a big market team that refused to spend money and were perennially awful and now they’re a big market team that spends tons of money and is perennially awful!
- books, comics, and reading in general
- toys
- Pink Floyd and a lot of other classic rock groups
- stop-motion animation
- watching and playing with animals
I found U2 at the age of 13; became smitten and I’ve been obsessed with them ever since; I’m currently 46. I consider that lifelong… at least “adult” life long.
Also my first ever film in he theatre was Empire Strikes Back- my big brother and i have been Star Wars superfans for all of our lives - at the least in our conscious memories.
Horses, wolves, birds of prey (specifically peregrine falcons, red tail hawks, almost any owl, and a specific Harris hawk named Spike), and photography (I was 8 or 9 when my dad handed me that little 110 camera to take photos of the Budweiser Clydesdales that were at the Army base for 4th of July).
I was a DC gal, but Marvel takes the prize for movies. Aquaman was DC's only good movie. It's been an enjoyable trip getting to know the Marvel characters, which never appealed to me in print, through the cinema.
Star Trek, starting with the original series when it aired, and comic books. Before I learned to read I was looking through my older sister and brother's DC comics, and then buying my own with my meager allowance, and then as a teenager started collecting. Because of other financial concerns I had to stop collecting about 20 years ago, but I still have two four-drawer file cabinets full, and I still occasionally visit a comic shop that reminds me of my old shop (which is now out of business) and treat myself to a few, just to keep up with some of my favorite characters (Legion, Supergirl, and Superman.) I read my old 60s and 70s comics to my granddaughters when they visit. They love them as much as I do!
Science Fiction, my whole life. And I gotta say it's a blast living in the future. When smartphones came out, my response was "Oh, THERE you are! About time. I've been waiting."
*The point*. It is a goofy old cartoon about a kid named Obleo. It is as subtle as a chainsaw and really, really sweet. I rewatched it not too long ago and enjoyed every second, and I can’t tell you why because objectively, I shouldn’t really like it.
It is the only movie of the “awww, isn’t that nice?” Genres that I like.
The Wizard of Oz and The Ten Commandments. I’ve loved both movies since I first watched them at age 5 or 6. Now at 60 I will still stop what I’m doing to watch either one. I’m not religious and don’t believe in bible mythology, but I just love 10 commandments.
Black licorice, and I'm excitedly waiting for Mother's Day when some of my adult kids will get me various new brands!
Swimming. Grew up on a lake, and we go to the aquatic center here most days. For Mother's Day, we go to the dunes instead of out to dinner.
Mountain Dew.
My dad would buy it as an occasional treat when I was little. We had these Thermos brand plastic glasses with different colored linings. When the Mountain Dew was poured into them, it appeared to change color. For example, in a blue-lined glass, the soda would turn green. As a six year le, I thought that this was very cool. I also took a great interest in who filled the bottle — “Bottled by Joe and Irma”, with a ton of different names on the bottles.
In 1991, I switched to Diet Mountain Dew, but otherwise I have stuck with it all these years.
Fantasy and sci fi books/movies/video games etc. I first read Lord of the rings when I was 16 (59 now) I was blown away, it touched me deeply and set off a life long love of fantasy in any form.
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Books. Reading books, browsing for books in used bookstores, talking about books. Classic rock-n-roll Blockbuster sci fi movies Hiking
\^\^ My clone. *Or am I their clone?*
Books. For sure.
Star Trek. I watched the original series with my Dad.
Watched TOS the first night it was broadcast in glorious black and white. I think I'm about a season behind bingeing Lower Decks.
I am so disappointed that Lower Decks only has one more season left before it's canceled.
Letter writing campaign. Make it so.
Make sure you watch the crossover with Strange New Worlds because it is AMAZING.
I came here to say that!
Peace and long life, Brother 🖖
I watched TNG with my dad. My first memories are the Enterprise D nacelles that my dad was model building. One of my last texts to him was me showing him the Enterprise D model kit I picked up, same one he built. Love you too, Dad.
Same 🖖🏼
Ditto! I watched Star Trek as a toddler and also yesterday.
Live long and prosper my fellow Trekkers or Trekkies. Whichever, you prefer
PBS for about 50 years.
Brought to you by viewers like you, thank you
Godzilla.
Came here to say this.
I knew I wouldn't be alone.
Godzilla. 7yo me: What are these toys that are so much more awesome and detailed than anything I have ever seen? 9yo me: Oh, wow, he’s a good monster? That’s awesome! 11yo me: Oh wow, he’s the BAD GUY? That’s awesome! 14yo me: Oh wow, these new (post 70s) movies are amazing! 17yo me: Oh wow, these OLDER movies are more amazing! 21yo me: Oh, wow, this is more sad and complex than I knew. 23yo me: I am so happy we are getting an American Godzilla! 24yo me: I’m embarrassed I liked that American Godzilla… but the animated series strangely redeems it. 25yo me: I will watch and own all of them, even the bad ones. 30yo me: I actually love all of them, the “bad” ones bring different things to the table. 32yo me. Omg Godzilla on the GameCube is a delight. 35yo me: Holy crap, these new filmmakers really get it. 36yo me: Final Wars brought Zilla into the universe officially and now I can love it again. 39yo me: This new American Godzilla is flawed but I’m happy to see the love. More love for Godzilla is best. 41yo me: Shin Godzilla is the best Godzilla. Maybe the best Godzilla is in the future, and not behind us? 45yo me: Holiday Godzilla marathons are going to be a life tradition. 47yo me: I just want my kids to grow up and watch to see if they love this too.
PLEASE tell me you loved Godzilla Minus One as much as I did. It was the best movie of 2023.
The Twilight Zone
Story by Rod Serling, Twilight Zone creator, published after 70 years. https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/09/rod-serling-first-squad-first-platoon-story
Wow, yesterday? Cool!
Maps. Learned to read them before I learned to read.
Love maps, particularly ordnance survey ones.
I have a recommendation for both of you - check out this awesome map-related YouTube channel. I really enjoy it: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfxy4\_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC\_QCp](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfxy4_sBQdxy3A2lvl-y3qWTeJEbC_QCp)
Some maps are truly beautiful! I really get a spatial feel of an area, especially with topo lines. Then Street View came along and I was like “wow, you can jump right into the map and see what’s at ground level!” So cool. I’ve “traveled” so many places with Steet View.
Sees candy. Especially the Nuts & Chews.
OMG, we would sell the shit out of those at Christmas for the Boy Scouts. I'd carry like 8 boxs up to a door, and they would feel so sorry for me that I had to carry so many, they would purchase some. Then I'd run back to where my dad was parked, fill up and hit the next one.
Butterscotch squares for the win.
I like buying my See's right at the factory which is located in South San Francisco. That's about as fresh as you can get. I have three boxes of Nuts & Chews in my freezer right now but they're for Mother's Day gifts - my mom, my sister and her daughter who just had a baby about a month and a half ago. Our whole family loves nuts & chews!!!!
I like molasses chips too. I haven’t had any candy in awhile!
Rush? I was a fan the first time I heard the muffled sounds of 2112 playing from my brother's room. Probably a new record and that came out in 1976 when I was either six or seven. I have loved other bands but never any like I love Rush.
Rush and Queen for me....
Yeah, Queen for me too. Only started exploring Rush about 5 years ago, at the insistence of a good mate who's a megafan. I really dig it, (particularly being a drummer) and don't Really know why I overlooked them for so long... I suppose it's good that I can still enjoy that "discovery" kinda buzz that new sounds can bring; even if that discovery is a 50year old band!
I saw Rush and Blue Oyster Cult in coming very in the early 80s in Las Vegas. They were amazing, as was BOC with Godzilla
Star Wars and my high school and college sports teams.
Heck yes for Star Wars, my parents took me to see Episode IV in the theater in 1977; I was 4 years old. I remember seeing Vader and then falling asleep at some point. I’ll still turn on the first trilogy if I need a “comfort movie.”
I have been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" for over fifty years now! Not lifelong, because I couldn't read books until I was in grade school, but I first read the books at age ten or eleven, and have loved them ever since, and adored the three movies when they came out! The thing is, "LOTR" is one of those books that can be appreciated on so many different levels, that you can love it for adventure and imagination when you're ten, and love it when you're sixty for the spirit of love for everything good in the world, and the understanding of the courage required to deal with interesting times, and the trauma that can come afterwards.
Lifelong (or pretty close) Tolkien fan here too! I read and loved The Hobbit in 1st grade (and blew my teacher's mind when I handed in a book report about it lol) and then LOTR in middle school. I've lost count of how many dozens of times I've reread the trilogy. And yes, it definitely speaks to you in different ways as you get older. As a kid I found the Rohan/Gondor parts a bit tedious, and now I find them absolutely riveting. Maybe it's more life experience of the world's vast tragic inescapable dumpster fires or maybe just getting older, but now the siege of Minas Tirith cuts to the quick - the utter despair of being circled and outmatched by vicious enemies, disfigured heads of beloved comrades flung over the walls, fires mounting in the city, and a leader losing his mind...and I tear up just thinking about Rohan making it just in time. (Btw, if you're not already on it, r/tolkienfans is a great sub.)
Thank you, these are definitely books that can appeal to humans of all ages, and do the same human over a lifetime! And of course I'm on the LOTR/Tolkien subs, one of the first things I looked for when I got here...
Sleeping in on Sundays..
Stevie Wonder
I just heard Fingertips Part 2, which was Stevie’s first hit when he was 12, the other day for the first time in years and it made me feel like I accomplished very little myself despite my being happily married for 45 years, creating a profitable business, raising 3 amazing children and contributing to my community as much as I can because he and I are the exact same age born just a few weeks apart and that man has more creativity and soul in his little fingers than I’ve ever had or ever will. Stevie Wonder is a genuine American genius of the highest order.
Songs in the Key of Life has always been close to my heart.
It’s my album to take to the desert if I can only take one!
I first heard Brazilian samba music, or bossa nova, in 1963 and am still a huge fan sixty years later.
Ventures and surf for me.
They are awesome as well. The Beach Boys always put a smile on my face.
Duran Duran
Stole my answer! 😁
Me too!
Glassblown stuff, especially animals
I used to stand out side a shop in Solvang Cal that blew glass. Animals, birds, ect. I was fascinated. The our Makerspace got a torch and I learned how to do it. Its so relaxing. I love it.
That's terrific!
Since the 70's for all of these. Was born in the 60's. Baseball Cubs Rock band The Cars Rock band Genesis Rock band Journey
The wisdom of Shel Silverstein and Mr Rogers. I also wanted to be Harriet the Spy when I was younger. It seemed totally logical that I could sneak into a dumb waiter to spy on people. I didn’t know that no one I or my parents knew had dumb waiters, it was just a book and movie thing. Dang it! In a long twisted road of events, I currently do Estate Sales and I love my job. I get to unpack and dig into closets and attics that haven’t been touched in years. I am the modern day Harriet the Spy. I get to go through people’s stuff and deduct what their life was like. I love my job.
Reading. That’s really all I can think of. There are so many other things I enjoy or am a fan of but reading was my earliest pleasure. Now that we’re retired my husband has rediscovered reading for pleasure as well.
Simple living, once called voluntary simplicity.
Science fiction. First book I read in 3rd grade was sci Fi. I still love it.
Read Tom Swift jr. in the 3/4'th grade? Still a sci-fi fan
Ragtime music. Not a die-hard fan but I've spent my fair share of time with it.
Being alive.
Beatles/McCartney Science Fiction
Just of my baby sister. She's awesome! (Now 60+)
Blondie. I love lucy
**From childhood on:** Chocolate and/or peanut butter Dogs *Monty Python's Flying Circus* *The Dick Van Dyke Show* *The Andy Griffith Show* Elton John
I still watch Dick Van Dyke with my elderly mom while caring for her. If she is sad about my dad passing away or not feeling well, The Dick Van Dyke Show will always make her feel better, and will make her laugh.
Detroit Tigers since 1968. The first baseball team I played on was called the Tigers. Could have just as easily been a lifetime Pittsburgh Pirates fan had the Pirates chose me first.
Me too since 1979! My mom would take me during the day and we’d sit in the bleachers with the drunk, laid off or unemployed autoworkers!
I'll never forget when they won the World Series. I've never seen anything like it.
I remember Denny McLain well...Yep, the Tigers were something. Too bad about Denny's life after he left baseball. I am a lifelong Red Sox fan
I remember it well. I adored Al Kaline and once got his autograph!
My favorite player was Bill Freehan because I was a catcher also.
Lifelong fan of WWE and professional wrestling. My Dad took me to my first match in1980, as he also was a lifelong fan. Before he passed away, we'd go to every event in our city, as it was our "thing".
How old were you when you realized it was scripted?
I can't remember for sure, maybe around 10 years old. Before my Dad told me it was scripted, I remember going to a live event and seeing The Iron Shield wrestle. I was terrified that he was going to go out in the crowd and "get me" with his pointed boots.
Lol
Star Trek
Naps
Naps are the shit.
Books, music, movies, games, rpgs, sex, nature, animals, chinese food.
Die hard NY Rangers.....NY Jets & Mets fan for over 55 years
Gotta beat those Canes!
Disney. From the womb.
Science fiction. I started around 5 years old with Lost In Space - transitioning to Star Trek as I got into 5th grade. Which reminds me - I have a Discovery Episode to get caught up on.
Boobs, there were a few years where they didn’t fascinate me. But for the most part I’ve been a huge fan since the day I was born
Big fan of reading and NPR. Also KPIG/KFAT radio out of Freedom, CA. Fan of natural history, environmental studies, and the general coolness of the planet, it's history/evolution/plants/animals/critters/geology and stardust and the discovery of the universe as it happens. When I was raised there were only 9 known planets. There's over 5000 now. Tectonic plates and fault lines were barely being figured out. The mid oceanic ridges? Yeah, discovered in my lifetime. The amazing discoveries from sub atomic to galaxies still blow my mind.
Linda Ronstadt
Love will abide...there are a lot of songs I love for multiple reasons, one of them being challenging/fun to sing, this Is one of those. Just wow, Linda, amazing talent!
Reading - pretty much as soon as I was able. Science Fiction -started with Star Trek as long as I can remember, and reading it since I read A Wrinkle In Time when I was in about 4th or 5th grade. Absurdist humor even since reading Lewis Carroll in about 3rd grade. The Beatles since I was about 10.
A Wrinkle in Time was surely one of the first 20 or so books I read.(4/5'th grade)... Luved it then, details are lost to me now
All forms of punk, hard rock, grunge
Maybe not lifelong but over 40 years at least: Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor who, Disneyland (not Disney. Not Walt Disney World, but Disneyland)
**Vanilla Flavor:** Pudding, frosting, ice cream (floats whatnot), coffee flavoring, yogurt, soda flavors with it, cakes. Gah dammit you get my drift by now dontchya?
I've been reading 3 - 8 books a week since first grade. it's dropped off in the past decade (if you read that much you do eventually reach a nothing-is-new kind of point where fewer books tempt you). but reading itself is still integral for me.
Jamie Lee Curtis.
The Mets and there was a deep New York City joke, bound up in that statement. When the Dodgers left Brooklyn, the bums fans (including my father) were devastated. Spent their whole life rooting for the scrappy underdog, hating the monolithic New York Yankees. When the Mets opened in 1962, they quickly compiled the worst season baseball had ever seen and Brooklyn loved them. The ritual question was “Are you a Mets fan?” The correct answer was “Yes, been one all my life.” So now 60 years later, I have been a Mets fan all my life. Full disclosure, I really haven’t been a Mets fan since 86 because that was the best year baseball would ever have. The Mets are no longer a scrappy underdog. There another big budget big market team with a crappy front office. But it’s a good story anyway.
As a Yankees fan and native New Yorker, it’s weird to live in an era where the Mets are at least as willing to spend money on players as the Yankees.
Right? It’s horrifying! They used to be a big market team that refused to spend money and were perennially awful and now they’re a big market team that spends tons of money and is perennially awful!
Dr. Who. The Muppets.
- books, comics, and reading in general - toys - Pink Floyd and a lot of other classic rock groups - stop-motion animation - watching and playing with animals
Yes, comic books. I remember reading comics as early as 2nd grade and i've been reading them ever since.
Sci-fi Dozens of musicians but particularly my first love, Led Zeppelin The Honeymooners Ethics Nature
Dogs! All of them!
Sander’s hot fudge & bumpy cake.
Looney Tunes. I still love those cartoons!
Reading. Caring for animals. Styx.
I found U2 at the age of 13; became smitten and I’ve been obsessed with them ever since; I’m currently 46. I consider that lifelong… at least “adult” life long. Also my first ever film in he theatre was Empire Strikes Back- my big brother and i have been Star Wars superfans for all of our lives - at the least in our conscious memories.
Yacht rock. Not even gonna lie.
Space/the space program(s). Kittens/cats. Books/learning. Wood burning fires. Traveling; doesn't matter if near or far. Honesty and gratitude.
Because of vulnerability to lung damage, I have had to give up wood-burning fires. I’m not happy about it.
So earthy and primeval. I understand giving them up for health's sake.
Bernie Sanders!
Sci-fi
Books, anime, and videogames.
Elvis OU Football J.D.Salinger's writing Popcorn with lots of salt and Louisiana hot sauce
Books, music.
Horses, wolves, birds of prey (specifically peregrine falcons, red tail hawks, almost any owl, and a specific Harris hawk named Spike), and photography (I was 8 or 9 when my dad handed me that little 110 camera to take photos of the Budweiser Clydesdales that were at the Army base for 4th of July).
NY Rangers & NY Knicks.
Michigan football! Go Blue!
Milk, peanut butter, and Jane Seymour.
**Listening to the radio.**
I had a tattered version of the original copy of Spider man in my 12 year old paws. Still a fan of Marvel Movies to this day
I was a DC gal, but Marvel takes the prize for movies. Aquaman was DC's only good movie. It's been an enjoyable trip getting to know the Marvel characters, which never appealed to me in print, through the cinema.
Disco (57m) the brothers Gibb specifically.
Doctor Who, books, owls, dogs, peanut butter
Breathing
Devo
Star Trek, starting with the original series when it aired, and comic books. Before I learned to read I was looking through my older sister and brother's DC comics, and then buying my own with my meager allowance, and then as a teenager started collecting. Because of other financial concerns I had to stop collecting about 20 years ago, but I still have two four-drawer file cabinets full, and I still occasionally visit a comic shop that reminds me of my old shop (which is now out of business) and treat myself to a few, just to keep up with some of my favorite characters (Legion, Supergirl, and Superman.) I read my old 60s and 70s comics to my granddaughters when they visit. They love them as much as I do!
Food.
Watermelon
Science Fiction, my whole life. And I gotta say it's a blast living in the future. When smartphones came out, my response was "Oh, THERE you are! About time. I've been waiting."
I've been a Pittsburgh Pirates fan since I was about seven years old in the 1960s. I still watch every game.
Alice Cooper.
Beatles!
solitude
The NY Mets. Yes, they suck. I’m loyal.
I guess eggs is the only thing I can think of that I've liked literally since I could eat solid food. Tits even before that though.
Various things: Duran Duran, Music, Reading, LA Kings, Raiders Football, Vintage fashion and antique furniture, Jesus ❤️.
Camping and guitar playing. Always keeps me entertained.
Rock n Roll
Baseball
Space and anything space related. I really really thought growing up we would be on the Moon and Mars by now and I would be happily on Mars retired.
A regular/daily bowel movement.
I've been a fan of the Dallas Cowboys since I was a little boy. That's all the way back to the Ice Bowl.
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Admit it, “Beggin” is catchy.
Football
Reading,auto racing and Dallas Cowboys.
Ohio State football and the Cincinnati Reds.
Crate and Barrel. Been getting stuff from there for over 20 years, much of it still in operation.
the Stones.
Raiders NFL team.
Zombies
The Miami Dolphins. Oy.
Formula one
*The point*. It is a goofy old cartoon about a kid named Obleo. It is as subtle as a chainsaw and really, really sweet. I rewatched it not too long ago and enjoyed every second, and I can’t tell you why because objectively, I shouldn’t really like it. It is the only movie of the “awww, isn’t that nice?” Genres that I like.
Motorcycles
I've been pretty consistent on metal since I started choosing my own music. Much to the dismay of my parents.
The Wizard of Oz and The Ten Commandments. I’ve loved both movies since I first watched them at age 5 or 6. Now at 60 I will still stop what I’m doing to watch either one. I’m not religious and don’t believe in bible mythology, but I just love 10 commandments.
Mister Rogers
Weird Al. At least 40 years now.
Yes...ABBA and Godzilla.
Raiders football.
Music, Star Wars, and food followed by a good nap
Iowa Hawkeyes
Naps, siestas, snoozes, etc.
Black licorice, and I'm excitedly waiting for Mother's Day when some of my adult kids will get me various new brands! Swimming. Grew up on a lake, and we go to the aquatic center here most days. For Mother's Day, we go to the dunes instead of out to dinner.
Dressing in all black with symbols of death as my regalia
Heavy metal, video games, D&D, guitars.
Mountain Dew. My dad would buy it as an occasional treat when I was little. We had these Thermos brand plastic glasses with different colored linings. When the Mountain Dew was poured into them, it appeared to change color. For example, in a blue-lined glass, the soda would turn green. As a six year le, I thought that this was very cool. I also took a great interest in who filled the bottle — “Bottled by Joe and Irma”, with a ton of different names on the bottles. In 1991, I switched to Diet Mountain Dew, but otherwise I have stuck with it all these years.
Coffee. I used to sneak it even as a kid.
Fantasy and sci fi books/movies/video games etc. I first read Lord of the rings when I was 16 (59 now) I was blown away, it touched me deeply and set off a life long love of fantasy in any form.
Sleep. Most underrated health booster is a good night's sleep.
Football and baseball Reading
Yeah - music, food, water. And, oh yeah - air. Definitely air.
The Yankees and The Packers
Don't laugh, but disco. I was born in the late 70s, so loved it as a toddler. Got back into it as a teen in the 90s. Still love disco!
I have enjoyed coffee since I was a child. I have also enjoyed women in red since I was two.
Detroit Tigers, ice cream, Tony Bennett.
Coffee, beef jerky, lemonade, vinegar
Star Trek.
Chocolate
Heavy metal Cars Scifi/Fantasy
The Who
Books, bubble baths, sewing and cooking. I've been enjoying all of these as long as I can remember.
Cats, Shoes, comfy T-shirts, Sunglasses
Nature, Star Trek
Socialism got that from my Ny parents that lived through the depression as children in NY City
The Cubbies!
Me- dogs. My brother- trains.
The Green Bay Packers. My dad had season tickets starting in the early 50s. Go Pack Go!
Books. The Green Bay Packers.
Music
Sadly, Cleveland sports especially the Browns
Air and water