PBR comes up on TV occasionally at the bar. I end up entranced, ignoring people who are talking to me. That’s some crazy action. I got thrown the one time I road a mechanical bull back during the week they were popular and I was hurting for a while.
Neat video and nice choice of music. Thanks for pointing out the bears.
I have collected some old-time photos of the town where I currently live, and I am trying to locate some of the subjects to recreate the photo as of today. I would not call it a hobby as much as just an interest to see how things have changed.
I’ve started doing this, mostly trying to find filming locations around Los Angeles, but I did find the location of this photo (intersection of Broadway and 6th St., downtown L.A., camera facing south). I’ve located several 3 Stooges filming locations, and it’s amazing what’s still around after 70-80 years. I’ve also started using Google Earth to look at the locations of old baseball parks, and then try to find old photos of them to see if I can determine where home plate was.
And this may be more of an obsession than a hobby, but I spend way more time than I care to admit finding the perfect album art for the iPod/iPhone. 1000x1000 pixels is my standard. I’ve gotten pretty good with Photoshop just from cleaning up poor scans of old record sleeves, and lately I’ve started reconstructing obscure single sleeves, especially if they’re variations of an album cover that I already have a good copy of. I know it sounds like a lot of work for a two inch iPhone display, but I use an old computer and bluetooth speakers as my home stereo, and I like to have the artwork displayed full screen. I guess the weird part is that I’ve never been any kind of collector of vinyl or anything, and I don’t own, and have never even seen a lot of the sleeves I photoshop except for crappy scans I find on the web.
I collect antique military instructional handkerchiefs, mainly Victorian and pre-Victorian. Some examples of French ones here:
Actually, and I feel bad saying this, that’s pretty mainstream. What I think you could do for quirky is something like only collect Baptist cookbooks.
My quirky hobby is that I’m a boot whisperer. I collect boot manipulation techniques for figure skaters. It sometimes saves money over buying customs, or getting a boot to last for another couple of months.
Aren’t all round things pointless? 
I save my change, not for rare coins or simply amassing it, but in order to have some money around the house other than what’s in my wallet in case the ATMs go down etc. But I don’t want to have too much, so I have a complicated system to balance having some rolled money around versus in the bank versus having to drag more than 30 rolls to the bank at a time.
Yes, I still roll them because otherwise how will you know how much you have? Plus, rolling change is fun.
My quirky pastime is dropping in on vintage MPSIMS discussions and marveling at the odd little corners of the interesting lives here.
I would never reply to one of them and resurrect a quirky thread, of course…
I like quirky old threads, as well.
I also collect. I collect lots of things. One of my weirder collections is tiny notebooks. I have about 300.