What are you a fan of?

In My Humble Opinion
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It’s really as simple as it sounds.

List the things you’re a fan of off the top of your head.

Here’s mine in no particular order:

  1. Nintendo. I have been since we got NES the year it came out, (I think). Since then… let’s just say that I’ve had their most of the consoles they’ve come out with. To put it another way, there wasn’t a game I couldn’t buy from Nintendo aside from Virtual Boy games. I haven’t had ALL iterations, but I’m assuming that they value me as a customer.

  2. Cherry artificial fruit flavor.

  3. Red and Florescent Yellow.

  4. Pizza and Buffalo Wings.

  5. I would say Jim Carrey, I’m not It sure where he stands on vaccines these days. I have a feeling he’s conflicted, if not regretful, but I don’t know. Dude’s complicated, but one he’ll of a performer. Yes, he was kind of an asshole and pretensious playing Andy Kauffman, but the dude was in The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

  6. XP-Pen drawing tablets. (I just got one and love it. So I’m kind of a fan of the company. For YEARS I’ve wished I’d be able to draw this way.

  7. Cats. I love Dogs too, but I’m just a fan of cats more. They suite me better.

  8. Weed. I don’t drink, but I love Marry Jane.

  9. Rick and Morty. It’s literally the only traditional TV I’m interested in now. I really feel hype before I see an episode.

  10. Late Spring/Early Summer.

Okay… that’s enough from me. Interested in what other people list, of they decide to respond. It can just be one or two things that come to mind.

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Dallas Cowboys, Texas Longhorns, Fukuhara Ai, Tom Clancy-genre thriller novels, Counter-Strike, San Antonio Spurs, writing in notebooks, cloudy-but-not-raining weather (I hate sunlight,) unusual pets like capybaras

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Physical media (I still buy CDs and BluRays), so much more than streaming. Early 70s rock and roll in the vein of Big Star and Mott the Hoople. Cajun blackened rainbow trout at Red Lobster. Hammer horror. Wales.

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What’s that?

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Hammer Film Productions was a British film studio that produced a number of highly regarded horror films from the mid-50s to the mid-70s. They had a distinct house style, sort of a technicolor gothic. They’re often regarded as the successors to the classic Universal monster movies of the 30s and 40s.

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In no particular order:

  • Working from home. I’m starting a fan club and everything!
  • PC gaming. I’m done with consoles.
  • Food delivery apps. Get onto DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, etc., find whatever it is you want to eat, and a few clicks and 40 minutes later, it just appears on the porch. Magic!
  • Trilby hats. I’m too old for baseball caps. This is my new style.
  • Drinkmate. Makin’ soda at home!
  • LEGO. I like everything about it. Building free, building sets, just looking at other people’s creations, it’s all great. I’m that middle-aged guy walking around LEGOLand with no kids and having more fun than anybody.
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@gdave summed it up before I saw your response. The great Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing Dracula movies, as well as the Quatermass theatrical films, came from the Hammer Studios.

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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things.

Darn it: I wanted to also post that song where the singer is flat, but lists all of the things he loves. And every stanza ends with “and I love you truly”? Now if I could only remember what it was.

And - Ealing Studios comedy films: The Maggie, Whiskey Galore, The Titfield Thunderbolt.
Come to think of it, ANY film where an actor starts “chewing the scenery.”

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A partial list (apparently, I’m wide-ranging in my nerdy interests):

  • Star Wars (yes, I know, this is a huge revelation)
  • Star Trek
  • Doctor Who
  • J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Comic books (particularly Marvel)
  • Astronomy
  • Space exploration
  • Meteorology
  • Trains (both model and real-world)
  • Model rocketry
  • Progressive rock and progressive pop music
  • Automobiles, particularly from the 1950s and 1960s
  • Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games
  • American football, especially the Packers
  • Canadian football
  • Baseball, especially the Brewers
  • Pizza
  • Beer
  • Scotch and Irish whiskey
  • Bombas socks
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  • Lists.
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A partial list:

  • Sci-fi and fantasy in general
  • Star Trek and Star Wars, among other franchises, in particular
  • Roleplaying games, including but far from limited to Dungeons & Dragons
  • Not just playing those games, but designing and writing them (I’m a very amateur designer, but I love reading and listening to my favorite designers discuss game design)
  • Board games, especially “big box” miniatures games with roleplaying elements
  • Super hero comics, especially Marvel
  • Super hero movies, especially Marvel
  • Super hero roleplaying games, especially Marvel
  • Myth and folklore
  • High Strangeness, Eliptony, and the Fringe
  • Including but not limited to secret histories, UFOs, cryptids, ghosts, psychic powers, conspiracies, lost civilizations, hidden civilizations, breakaway civilizations, and rains of fish
  • (all of that as a form of fantastical fiction)
  • Skepticism and debunking of the factual reality of the above
  • History and archaeology
  • Political Science and international relations
  • The Chicago Bears
  • The Chicago Cubs
  • The Chicago Bulls
  • The Chicago White Sox
  • The Chicago Blackhawks
  • (In pretty much that order, and yes, I know rooting for both the Cubs and the Sox is considered heresy by many)
  • Due South
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I’m a fan of retrievers, spaniels and full-contact gardening.

Carrey has been notably silent lately about vaccines, and apparently has had nothing much to say about Covid-19 apart from attacking Trump’s response to the pandemic. The most recent Carrey statement on vaccination I can find was when he blasted California’s governor as a “corporate fascist” who “must be stopped” for signing a bill into law ending the state’s exemption to mandatory childhood vaccination on the grounds of personal or religious beliefs.

I’m not a fan of hypocrites.

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Little baby ducks
Old pick-up trucks
Slow-moving trains,
and rain
Little country streams
Sleep without dreams
Sunday school in May
And hay.

(Didn’t we do this recently?)

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Non-comprehensive and in alphabetical order:

Bananas (he who controls the banana controls the Bananaverse and from there, reality is a cinch… or so an unusually sentient banana once told me)

Big cats (e.g., leopards and tigers), most reptiles and all cephalopods (including metaphysically-based ones)

Blues and Blues-based rock music; bitchen guitar solos in general

Certain other individual human beings, esp. a few completely unknown to the general public

Chocolate, usually in the form of pastries or desserts

Covid-19 vaccinations

The end of summer weather

Graphic art of many different times, places, styles and mediums

Layabout, especially in the dark and quiet

Movies, including (but not limited to) those with jungle settings, monsters/aliens, truck-based adventures, films noir or generally obscure productions (often foreign) of a superior and/or uncommon nature

Research on whims

Rooting against a particular sports team or player

“Snow” samples mailed from faraway places

Trying new ethnic food

Waterfalls, in particular the spray off them one feels standing in the right spot at the right time holding a loved one close

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Off the top of my head (first run-through):

Bob Dylan
Garden fresh tomatoes
Polite strangers
Melted cheese
Spotify
Penn’s Sunday School podcast
Counting the days until retirement
Haikus

mmm

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From Doonesbury, for the Canucks here:
“Tall whispering pines and hot maple syrup,
Red coast Mounties perched high in their stirrups,
Hard rubber hockey pucks shot from the wings,
These are a few of our favourite things!”

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That song everyone here is dancing around is by Tom T. Hall. Let us never mention it again.

I’m a big fan of Frank Darabont. Not a huge output but quite a few near masterpieces. Plus, he’s the only one who knows how to do Stephen King for film/TV.

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  • Chocolate chip cookies.
  • Chocolate chip cookies.
  • Did I mention chocolate chip cookies?
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Books.

I walk into Foyles book shop in London and just like looking at how many books there are.

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cottage style flower gardening
rural New England
trail riding
fountain pens
the sound of the absence of human beings