That worked out nicely, actually.

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Comment on this post, and I will choose five (maybe more) interests from your profile. You will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

boozing

Like that really requires clarification.

Cordwainer Smith

One of the best writer's the genre has seen. Specialized in short stories, which are where it's at (or was at the time) and built an incredible universe.

Lost Race literature

Those fantastical turn of the 19th century adventure novels of entire civilizations rediscovered (and usually lost again) are choc full of sense of wonder; Burrough's Pellucidar, Haggard's She, Skull Island and Shangri-La. Hollow Earths, secret valleys and unmapped islands. Good stuff.

old time radio

Dimension X, X Minus One, Lights Out, Suspense, Mercury Theater on the Air, The Shadow. And the detective shows; Philip Marlowe ("Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave.There's no other end, but they never learn"), Sam Spade-even the cop shows like Dragnet. It's incredible that a whole era of mass entertainment that shaped the pop culture landscape is practically forgotten and that current American radio broadcasts virtually no drama. But the shows hold up and they're easier than ever to find thanks to the web.

Whedonverse

Another one I don't really have to explain do I? The Buffy-verse and the world of Firefly. Such a well crafted and beloved world, lived-in and familiar but full of wonder. Like a second home sometimes, I'm so glad it's back, again.