Last year at CONvergence I was contemplating cosplay. Specifically, I was contemplating what I personally might or might not get out of cosplay. Now, I don’t know how you, Gentle Reader, do your cosplay. But to me it seems that cosplay provides two types of experiences. You can cosplay in a way that reveals something [...]
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It’s time to mention, again, my favorite solstice poem. I blogged about it last year, here.. And you can find the full text here. Go, read it. Go on, I’ll wait. This year I’m thinking that this poem is likely the first steampunk story I ever read. There is a whole world there, a whole [...]
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When I look at the steampunk stories that are out there, I think that we are nowhere near through mining this genre for what it can tell us about ourselves. There is so much more to it than airships and railroads. History is always weirder and more complicated than you think. 1. Everyone knows that [...]
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Someone else already wrote up excellent notes from the Politics of Steampunk panel at Wiscon. So here are some of my further thoughts. I was fascinated by the panelist introductions, as they each mentioned what they thought Steampunk is. “Negotiating a more beautiful past,” A E-M. “Magical technology,” JG. “Turning a computer into a question,” [...]
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I’ve been wearing these gloves at work, the last week or so. Awesome hand-knit fingerless gloves, made for my by a friend who understands that sometimes you just need black fingerless gloves. I’m wearing them at work because a chilly draft blows out from the computer consoles at all times. Part of the environmental controls, [...]
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J and I watched the movie Apollo 13 with the kids yesterday. You know, the one with Tom Hanks in it, the one with “we’ve never lost an American in space and we’re not going to start on my watch.” At the point where Jim Lovell is staring out the window at the moon, knowing [...]
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