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Showing posts with label Steampunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steampunk. Show all posts
Saturday, 24 March 2018
Saturday, 27 January 2018
No, not those. Those are my time travel trousers!
Jacob Rees-Mogg is to take over Britain at the head of a Steampunk army.Huzzah!
The rebel MP, who is now in charge of government via a Byzantine system of patronage, has ordered Theresa May to leave Downing Street or be blasted with an ornate bazooka.
Meanwhile, Rees-Mogg has outlined plans for a post-Brexit Britain of brass automatons, clockwork cars and steam-powered internet.
He said: “With myself at the helm, we will forge a brave new nation of valves and pumps, of smoked-glass goggles and Tesla coils, of transatlantic tunnels and invincible British airships darkening European skies.
“Somewhere around 1900, our birthright as a nation was snatched from us. I propose to reset the calendar and do the last hundred years or so properly, with parliament returned to its advisory role and the monarch in absolute power.
“Don’t you want your sons to be the first to wear top hats on Mars? Your daughters waited on by a house-robot named Stevens who contains a fully-functioning pipe organ capable of playing eight different hymns?”
Political commentator Eleanor Shaw said: “This is easily the most coherent vision of post-Brexit Britain we’ve heard so far.”
The Daily Mash
Of course.
And here, to cheer the revolution along, is house favourite Professor Elemental:
Fab.
Right, onward and upward with this bally house-move - where are those boxwallahs?!
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
When I say "Earl Grey," you say "Yes, please!"
A strange article in The Guardian today focuses on the rise of "... the world’s unlikely capital of steampunk... the humble farming town of Oamaru, three hours south of Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island."
Apparently, supported by the special effects team from Lord of the Rings and the availability of local farm equipment and junk shops, thousands of enthusiasts regularly descend on the town, and as a consequence Oamaru made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest gathering of steampunks in the world.
I am most intrigued by the sentence: "Steampunk games such as teapot racing [were] invented in Oamaru..."
What on earth is it? How does one set up a "teapot race"?
Maybe the "king of steampunk rappers" Professor Elemental may be able to explain; he knows a thing or two about tea:
That almost took my mind off going back to work for a moment...
Saturday, 2 January 2016
Entering the modern world...
...well, almost.
Just bought a new computer, pre-installed with Windows 10. Since everyone says that is a load of crap to use, I've spent ages on the interwebs today searching out hints and tips on how to customise it to look like older versions of Windows.
You can take a queen out of the Steampunk age, but you can't take the Retro out of the queen...
Indeed.
Saturday, 25 February 2012
Come into my Parlour
To follow on from the slightly seedy "Steampunk" subculture we worked so hard to recreate at last night's Ball, here is a little bizarre something we have discovered...
There's lot's more over at the Peculiana website...
Steampunk, Tango and big wigs
Our gang (Hils, Madam Arcati, Crog, Jim and I) all made a fabulous effort dressing up for the grand "Steampunk"-themed LGBT History Month Ball last night!
And we had a great time - with a cheesy disco and pop DJ, lesbian Tango exhibition, dance classes and a motley crue of similarly attired gayers from Camden and Islington, in the fab Art Deco surroundings of the Islington Assembly Hall (part of the Town Hall, resplendent with its first ever rainbow flag on the roof), how could we not?
In addition to the mayhem, our cabaret for the evening was the marvellous drag queen Miss Hope Springs, described on her website thus:
"Ex Vegas showgirl turned lounge act cocktail pianist Miss Hope Springs is on tour in Europe after the Starlight Lounge at the Pink Pelican Casino, where she had been entertaining since the sixt... I mean seventies... was dynamited and turned into a parking lot.She was unfortunate in the fact that much of her audience at the Ball were mainly busy chatting at the bar (and some chatting right at the front of the stage - how rude!). But she growled magnificently through three hilarious numbers, before leaving us. Here's the "lady" herself...
Having recently become single after her husband Irving ran off with his gym buddy Carlos, Hope is searching for that elusive trio - no... not her musicians, but love, happiness and success.
Currently living in her Winnebago, Miss Hope Springs is available for private parties, weddings and bar mitzvahs."
It was a superb evening, and a fitting way to round off the events of LGBT History Month, which finishes at the end of February!
We are off to Brighton today for a few days, so "normal service" here at Dolores Delargo Towers may well be subject to further disruption...
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Flags, Closets, Salons, Dukes, Gods - and Steampunk!
Tomorrow marks the start of LGBT History Month, which continues throughout February.
That's yours truly at the back of the above photo - as co-Chair of the LGBT Forum, celebrating the arrival of the very first Rainbow Flag in its history to grace the flagpole above Islington Town Hall!
As ever, London has a fair smattering of events to mark the month, not least the on-going Joe Orton exhibition Malicious Damage. I am particularly looking forward to:
- The Vinyl Closet this Friday (3rd Feb) - a third outing of the entertaining history evening that uncovers portrayals of LGBT lives in popular music, organised as a fundraiser by the Lesbian and Gay Humanists. Visit the website (and notice where the links to the reviews of their previous shows point!)
- Our regular monthly highlight, "London's peerless literary salon" Polari on Monday 6th, with readings from Tiffany Murray, Faarea Masud, Catherine Hall, Jack Scott, Vicky Ryder and Max Wallis. Islington should be hosting a local "mini-Polari" as well, if arrangements are ever finalised...
- On Tuesday, a special lecture on Philippe I, duc d'Orléans (the flamboyant bejewelled brother of Louis XIV, known as "Monsieur") at the Wallace Collection (a museum I have never been to, so double the excitement!)
- Antinous, Last God of the Ancient World (on Thursday 9th at the marvellous Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology), a "lavishly illustrated lecture" on the legendary youth whose death drove his lover the Emperor Hadrian to create a god-cult in his name.
The closing gala ball on 24th February at Islington's Art Deco Assembly Hall is taking enough planning/shopping as it is - its dressing-up theme being "Steampunk", a currently trendy style that fascinates me (admirably described by one wit as "What happens when Goths discover brown"). And we all know how much I like dressing-up...
All this, and the beloved other half Madam Arcati's birthday, too! How will we cope?
In the United Kingdom LGBT History Month is observed during February to coincide with the celebration of the 2005 abolition of Section 28. Visit the official website.
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