I did some electronic hobbyist stuff back in the late eighties and early nineties, and have been wanting to get back into it. My first suggestion is to get a electric circuits text-the kind that is used in trade schools, not an EE text. Even if you don't really care that much about the fundamentals, at minimum you are eventually going to have to look up stuff when troubleshooting. This is one example of the kind of book I meant, http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Circuits-Principles-Applicati...

Next, get a couple of books of simple projects. I'm not up on the current ones, but even a lot of older ones, like Traister's 39 One-Evening Electronic Projects (http://www.amazon.com/One-Evening-Electronic-Projects-Robert...) or some of Delton Horn's books, will give you a few simple things to start with.

Next is the classic The Art of Electronics, which has a new edition coming out, finally. [EDIT: Sorry, looks like a rumor. The second edition from 1989 is still current and couldn't find any actual details for a third.]

After that, you should have a better idea which way you want to go and what you want to do. Anything you want to do will be easier with a decent grounding in simple projects though. A lot of electronics, unless you are just plugging together pre-built modules, requires practice.