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Happy St David's Day ( Read more... ) -
Halp!
Hello all! I know I don't post here often :) but hoped LJ might allow a little more depth in answers than Facebook.
After 7 years of good service, the motor/fan of my Sony Vaio laptop (which I bought as a lightweight portable little thing for when I was at the Bar) has started making really awful noises. I'd been planning to get myself a bigger, ( Read more... ) -
Steampunk in Oxford
If you're in London or Oxfordshire or anywhere in the vicinity, and are reading this Friday night or the next morning, and have just realised you don't yet have anything planned for Saturday daytime...
Sally (424850) (as mentioned in her LJ a week ago), Lynsey & Peter, willseg, myself, viclet and others from Nottingham/Leicester (probably including Jema and Dave & ( Read more... ) -
"And this is for the Ashes!"
England have won the toss and chosen to bat.
Now they just need to emulate the heroic Pisswiddle Steel Batters when they unexpectedly beat West Germany in the 2007 Ashes Final...
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Miscellaneous Brilliance
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Cup of Brown Joy - shockingly some people still haven't seen this...
Watchmen, if it was a Saturday morning cartoon (click "WATCH THIS MOVIE") -
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it)
This Star Wars talk has reminded me to post this very funny (and work-safe) video which was on _tonylee_'s LJ a few weeks ago.
Basically...
"My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So I took out my voice recorder ( Read more... ) -
The News
More recentlyish news...
The Guardian looks at Steampunk and Steampunk music
The Academy of Urbanism's finalists for the Great British Street of the Year are Kensington High Street, London, Portobello Road, London and... The High Street, Skipton!!
Article comes with bonus quote from my cousin Seb at the end
Mushrooms still evil -
Steampunk goodness...
Some highlights from the 2008 California Steampunk Convention.
Favourite parts:
the Steampunk Ghostbusters! at 0:26-0:51
a rather wonderful Birdwoman at 2:04-3:06
and the excellent band Abney Park at 6:43-9:52
And finally; a steampunk/Christmas Wondermark for your viewing pleasure...
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