Though I’m not one of the guys who idealizes the days of childhood, I nonetheless have some fond memories of lying about reading comics (or, later, some heavy-duty science fiction novels stolen from my stepbrother’s bookshelves) to while away the occasional weekend afternoon. I clearly remember a fall day when I sat down to read Fleischer and Aparo’s ‘Wrath Of The Spectre’ for the first time (totally blown away, I might add), as well as an afternoon spent sitting, for some reason, in freezing temperatures inside my unheated truck enjoying Stephen King’s ‘The Bachman Books.’ Why I was sitting in a parked truck, I don’t recall, but since young teenage me was kind of a jackwagon, I’m sure it had something to do with trying to either look cool or impress a girl. Either way, with three jobs, those sort of aimless, quiet moments are pretty much a thing of the past, something that is sad and not-so-much at the same time. The idea of just sitting down to absorb some new book or VHS tape seems like a long-lost luxury these days, which begs a (somewhat nostalgic, but hopefully not bitter about it) query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is usually @$$-deep in vintage comics these days, having worked Sundays for the last eight years, asking: What’s your preferred brand of pop culture for a hypothetical lazy afternoon?
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Back when I lived in a town with a comic book store, it was spending the afternoon with a pile of unread comics. These days it’s spending the afternoon with a good book and a cat in my lap.
Almost always a book… But the occasional marathon session of WoW will creep in there… And right now I’m watching Battlestar Galactica for the first time… So I could see myself getting lost in a season of that! But mostly when you say “lazy” I think of books…. Comic, print or of the “e” variety. ((Today is a lazy day with Redshirts… And later a viewing of Monsters University))
Watching a marathon of subtitled Super Sentai (or occasionally Kamen Rider), be it watching a specific series or watching just the “movies”.
Alternately, reading. Earlier today I went through half of a new Star Wars novel, and I’ve got a non-fiction book about the parallels between various cultures mythology to read after that.
Using my dog as a footrest and reading. Pretty much a one-way ticket to spending three hours sleeping on the couch.
I like to curl up and read Neil Gaiman or Douglas Adams, I don’t care too much which book. Sometimes I’ll even go to a coffee shop and get some caffeine and a pastry to enjoy while I read.
I also am the one prone to binge playing favourite video-games and impromptu marathons of Doctor Who, Star Trek, or Arrested Development.