What do you geek out on , besides toy collecting?

[Mr.Marion]

For me it's the wild west and Hamlet I usually read every article or notice every time it pops up somewhere while out in public.

[J.B.]

Watches.

[SeattleEd]

Vinyl records and CDs including gear.
Bass guitars.

[MRP]

hmmm, so many things...

Comics
Tolkien
Robert E. Howard
Frazetta art
sword & sorcery
D&D and other ttrpg
vintage paperbacks
archaeology
ancient & medieval history
mythology & folklore
Pre-Columbian American history
Ancient Egypt
Knights Templar history & myth
speculative history
Salvador Dali
Tarot
Red Sox
New England/Hartford Whalers
fantasy football




-M

[SeattleEd]

Watches.

My wife is great granddaughter of Dietrich Gruen. I found out late when all the model watches in the family were sold. I wanted a verithin pocket watch.

[Mr.Marion]

hmmm, so many things...

Comics
Tolkien
Robert E. Howard
Frazetta art
sword & sorcery
D&D and other ttrpg
vintage paperbacks
archaeology
ancient & medieval history
mythology & folklore
Pre-Columbian American history
Ancient Egypt
Knights Templar history & myth
speculative history

-M

Brother we drink the same vodka.
I'm a conspiracy guy myself, it's hard to bring it up sometimes. But to think there isn't a vanishing point on power and control of society would be extremely naive or stupid.

Anyway , I'd love to collect vintage paperbacks but it's hard to know where to start. I love the Frazetta covers and my grandpa had multiple copies of every ERB novel. Someone pointed out the first Masters of the Universe wave was a greatest hits of all the Sword and Sorcery and sci-fi tropes of 70's paperbacks. That's why I love them now.

[Falstaff13]

Big fan of fictional crossovers (primarily with television series)
Anything Jim Henson
Bergen & McCarthy
the original Captain Marvel
Doctor Who and lots of Brit TV
Cyrano de Bergerac adaptations
variations on A Christmas Carol
The Inklings
John Milton
Shakespeare (fave play The Tempest; fave character Falstaff)

[J.B.]

Knights Templar history & myth

I was a member of DeMolay.

[J.B.]

My wife is great granddaughter of Dietrich Gruen. I found out late when all the model watches in the family were sold. I wanted a verithin pocket watch.

[PNGwynne]

Capt. Marvel

Doc Savage & Pulp reprint series

Tea

Ascots/Day cravats

Historical eyewear

Oscar Wilde

Costuming/Men's tailoring

[MRP]

I was a member of DeMolay.

My masters' thesis in medieval history examined the origins of banking institutions in the late ancient/early medieval period through the early modern period to examine what the antecedents of banking families like the Medici were, so a lot of my research delved into the Templars themselves. Of course I was turned on to Templar myth by reading Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco as a senior at university and that piqued my interest in Templar history leading to the shaping of the topic of my thesis. There's a lot of crackpot theories out there about the Templars, which I take with a grain of salt, but they are more fun than a barrel of rolling monks (not monkeys, putting monkeys in a barrel and rolling it down a hill is cruel). But, yeah sometimes, you can encounter some real fringe stuff. The offshoot is, when you read/see something like Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, you can point to all the different books and sources he stole his ideas from and give people something better written on the topic if they are interested.

-M

[J.B.]

I was turned on to Templar myth by reading Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

That was a good read. Ironically enough, it was suggested by my future Brother-in-Law, another DeMolay member.

[Mr.Marion]

I was a member of DeMolay.

I'm a descendant of the Nicolays, a noble European family. Someone must of lost a war along the way because I've never received any special treatment

[rykerw1701]

Star Trek (which makes toy collecting even worse, of course)
American history, particularly Revolutionary War and WW2
Stop Motion animation
Pin-up art
Pro football, go Bills!

[Earth 2 Chris]

American comics up through the early 2000s, particularly comic history
Packaging and licensing art for franchises I love
Universal Monster Films
Hammer Horror Films
Lighted holiday Blow Molds
Vintage Christmas
Vintage Halloween
Star Trek TOS (TV and films)
A Christmas Carol (all adaptations)
Dracula (the orginal novel and how it's reinterpreted)