What other obsessions do you have?

Personally, I see nothing wrong with fast boats, fast cars and fast women, if they have more meaning to you than their exchange value. If you use them as a means to something of user value, that is something more than as a commodity or as a posit of your domination of nature, then more power to you! Of course, T. Adorno would be laughing out loud at all
of us for being buffoons to the symbolization and reification of our mass cultural artifacts we acquire in a postmonopoly capitialist society.

My wife and I ride our road bikes on the weekends to the local coffee house or deli. About 20 miles each trip. She rides a custom Mondonico and I have a custom Serotta CSi. We ride steel bikes because we are not as svelt as we were in our younger days.

I also play blues and classic rock guitar for my own amusement. I have a couple of Les Pauls, a G&L Tele, and a PRS Custom 22 guitars. I use a Mesa Boogie DC-2 and a Fender Blues Junior for amplification. I also have a Sigma acoustic guitar.

We still have one surviving 15 year old Jack Russell Terrier.

Definitely wine! Oh, and traveling... this self-absorbed snob is off to Australia next week to indulge in both obsessions.

I've had a number over the years at various times each were all consuming of my free time and include woodworking, gardening, bicycling, swimming. All I still enjoy but have not nearly the time for but often revisit.

The latest in spot #1 is learning the piano. It didn't start as an obsession but now has totally consumed much of my free time including listening to music...something I always wanted to learn beyond the exploratory stage and banging out melodies but never committed to. Thanks Zila, my wife for making it happen by signing me up and not taking no for an answer, I love you for it.

Two wheels, a big motor and an open road. I just can't schedule a critical listening session right after a few hours of riding...the ears won't cooperate after all that high compression combustion concussion!