[Groop] What do I collect?

[No Way]

Hmm... collections.  Where to start?
   
  I'm something of an inveterate (but woefully undisciplined) collector.  I have a run of Canadian Pennies (hey, they're cheap, and when you're a kid you don't have a lot to spend on collecting much of anything) from 1937-2001, with a few scattered ones from earlier... a collection of 'interesting rocks' (ones with iron pyrite crystals, thunder eggs, lava rocks, and suchlike), a scattering of McDonald's toys (although I suspect those probably all got lost several moves ago)...
   
  Then there are comics... I have about a longbox' worth of completely random ones (Justice League, Captain Carrot and his Zoo Crew... wish I had more of those... New Warriors, New Teen Titans, Avengers, She Hulk, Blue Devil, etc.... weird and eclectic, anyways); the ones that I have actually gone out of my way to collect are, of course, Groo (and just recently Magnor), anything by Aaron Williams (if you're a fantasy fan, check his stuff out- www.nodwick.com), Jeff Smith's "Bone" (although I cheated on that one and bought the whole thing in one very, very large book, heh), and a Manga or two- Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter X Hunter, and one called "Zatch Bell", which is a rather strange little take on the 'monster of the week' genre of manga.  If I have the opportunity and the money, Carl "the Duck Man" Barks' work will probably be next (I live in a small town with no comic shop).
   
  And, as if that weren't enough... I also collect books.  A collection of random ones (the result of 'hey, this looks like it could be interesting' in a seemingly endless variety of secondhand bookstores), and... hmm, lesse; Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels (I've got about half of them... would have more, but keep making the mistake of lending them out), Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy (although again, I think I've made the mistake of lending at least one of them to someone and not gotten it back), and Donald Jack's "The Bandy Papers" series (a uniquely Canadian set of novels, but if you can track them down, they are truly funny, and, at the same time, an extremely well researched look at World War One).  As may have been guessed, I have long since run out of shelf space and have books and comics in drawers, on my bedstead, and scattered randomly about the room in stacks.
   
  Oh... and I have a rather impressive collection of virtual items thanks to spending far too much time in that horrible, horrible time-sink known as World of Warcraft.  *sigh*
   
  Cheers,
  David

 
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