Here’s a video tour of the Edison Club in LA, to the music of Abney Park. If I lived in LA, or happened to ever visit LA, I would most certainly make it a point to stop by. The Edison Club is probably the only “steampunk” club in America, at...
While I have been writing for approximately 20 years, accumulating thousands of pages of written work, I am quite ashamed to say that I have never been published. And it has not been for the lack of trying. I have failed to have a single book published by any of...
I just found this wonderful, picture-filled article at DarkRoastedBlend.com on assorted airship designs from the early 20th century to the modern day. Some of the airships are recently proposed designs for re-invigorating an interest in airship technology. Others are images of “airships that never were”, and while some could be...
Abney Park is probably one of my favorite bands, and that’s saying a lot since I’ve never been big on music for anything other than background noise. Of course, I’m a bit biased since I’m a sucker for anything “steampunk-ish”. But Abney Park has style, and they are pretty unique...
Generally speaking, steampunk is a sub-genre of speculative fiction that is set in the Victorian period of the late 19th century or a “Victorian-like period” where steam power is the dominant driving force of the world (instead of gasoline or other 20th century developments). The civilization may even be highly...
With over 100 million blogs in the world (at least, according to Technorati who track blogs), I have no illusions that my little blog will, for the time being, suffer in the black abyssal void of obscurity from whence few blogs have every returned. But anything is possible in the...
