"Some people juggle baby geese"

[mizarchivist]

After finally seeing Spiderman II last night with Wex, we were discussing the various merits of the film. He loved it for its accurate comic book-style angsty-romance. I am not big with that sub-genre, but I appreciate why he was getting all happy over it.
It made me start to consider my quirks in preferred diversions:
1. well made, organized storage devices (archive boxes, purses with lots of dividers and pockets, art/tackle boxes, etc)
2. having exact change
3. Mutant Enemy in any and all of its forms. Including the comic, Fray
3a. well, most stories that portray kick-ass chicks (bonus if they have hotty demon lovers with bleached hair and a sarcastic wit)
4. Jane Austen adaptations and 17/18th century period pieces

What's your version of juggling baby geese?

Comments

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

Mutant Enemy in any and all of its forms. Including the comic, Fray.

-Well, Fray rocks on toast. This is a view held by all right-thinking beings.

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

Funny, I always considered myself a left-thinking being...

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Then you are allowed, but not obligated, to think that Fray rocks on toast.

[quiet-elegance.livejournal.com]

See I *Knew* you just weren't right!!!

J/K Love ya babe :)

[quiet-elegance.livejournal.com]

The smell of a woodshop :)-good thing that
Sharp tools
Beautiful building materials
The smell of fresh asphalt
Wierd covers of songs
and
...brown paper packages tied up with string...

Go on, distract me!

[lifecollage.livejournal.com]

The smell of freshly-cut wood
A room that I've just whipped into efficient and organized shape
Music with a powerful kinetic force and room to dance to it
Fiction with strong female/queer characters and magical elements (FarScape rox!)
Storage pr0n (catalogs, websites, The Container Store, Levenger)
Running a great party from the kitchen
Final dress rehearsal of a show I've tech directed
Craft supplies
Book stores

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Let's see, I'm sure that lots of these will have been mentioned by others but here are some of mine (in no particular order):

Reading (Fantasy and SF preferred but just about anything really)
Book stores
A crackling fire
Music I can loose myself in (varies depending on mood)
Computer games (which game depends on my mood)

and lots of other stuff depending on my mood.

[sebastian-tombs.livejournal.com]

I have no quirks - its the rest of the world that seems weird!

[fraterrisus]

i REALLY want to read that as "juggling the baby Jesus".

just sayin'.

quirk is such a great word

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

gosh, what are my "preferred" diversions? Things that I absolutely love?

- the smell of fabric softener coming out of someone's house while I'm walking past.
- sushi, in all its varied form and splendor (and now dim sum as well)
- feeding people who appreciate my cooking
- reading anything and everything I can get my hands on (especially when reccomended by my Dennis - he has yet to steer me wrong in a literary adventure)
- saying hello to the Pawtuxet River (or any body of water for that matter)
- cuddling with someone nice who's rubbing me
- art supplies and journals - even if I never use them, I always feel so special HAVING them . . .

Things that make me go Yay!

[samuraizergling.livejournal.com]

Hearing a song I like on the radio that normally doesn't get airplay. (This is usually down at the left end of the dial.)

Intelligent Science Fiction that doesn't ignore the ramifications of the stuff it makes up.. (Bad Ex: "Star Trek: Insurrection" - If they could beam all the bad guys off their ship all at once like that, why did they go to the bother of putting them in the HoloShip? Why not just suspend them in the Transport Buffer? All they needed to do was buy themselves a few seconds.)

People I think I know so well acting in ways I didn't anticipate.

Winning because I didn't give up when everyone else would have. (This applies most often to video games, but in RL too, like when I finally found an irreplaceable screw I dropped in the dirt.)

Getting paid to make Bad computers behave. (I enjoy this WAY too much. Shh - Don't tell!!!!111)

Almost everything to do with Theater.

Massive Bandwidth and Storage Capacity.

Naked Women - I included this one to offset the many geeky items on this list, then realized it wasn't offsetting a damn thing. :)

SZ