The Steampunk World

Being the continued explorations of a living steampunk.

The steampunk world is all around us, lying just out of sight, in a continuous thread of steampunk builders and culture that extends from the Victorian era to the present. You'll find no science fiction here: This is real life steampunk.

Sunday, June 27, 2004

0sei and I did a radio show. It was nice to get back in the booth after the many years since Aaron T. (of primate.net) and I hosted a show in college. The DJs were rastas, so they were devoid of the spastic self-love that makes shock jocks so annoying. The resultant fame was instantaneous- as we left the station some kids yelled "Johnny!" because they'd heard obruni on the radio and knew I had to be he.

I also attended another church service- well, not a service, a gospel concert. There was this hilarious moment where I'd left to get some fresh air and returned to find the music and the choir swelling and the whole crowd dancing and swinging their hankies and I stood at the back of the church and felt just like Jake Blues: "The rat patrol! THE RAT PATROL!!!!!!!"

For the first two hours I thought it was a standard gospel church but then they started smackin' foreheads and some fat old lady passed out into my lap and people were spasming on the floor and screaming and then they started speaking in tongues (fa ba la ra ba fa da) and when the psychic surgery started my eyes started rollin' around like a steer in a stampede and I swear to you now that if they woulda brought out the rattlesnakes I would have been GONE, I don't care who I had to step on to get out of that place.

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