the shark, she is jumped.

I say! Totting good news, this!

*ZAP-BLEEP*

I prefer New Victorian.

I'm totally out of the loop - do I still have options other than doing this or accessorizing with garbage and dead animals?

Gosh I love Steam Punk. Would never dress like that, though. Just pretty to look at. :3

These are the guys John Fitzgerald Page used to whale on in high school.

@Bell County: I hear the kids love their bell bottoms.

I'll be over here in my usual Euro Mod luxe cubby

God. I just barfed and I honestly don't know if it's from the migraine or the pretentiousness overdose.

"...he over-thinks his outfit, but everyone just thinks he looks like a cunt."

Why do I hope this guy's T-Ford breaks down in the middle of Brownsville?

@Gayyker: We'll note that in your phyle.

This is all very 'Time Machine' to me. Also, I'd really like to see that guy in the picture shoveling coal. Yeah you may look the part, skinny kid with a watch fob, but whatchya gonna do when the train whistle's blowin'?

Neck down he lloks like one of the evil be-goggled minions from Van Helsing

Ooh. An Edwardian fop goes time travelling. How new. Douglas Adams, you died, did you not? But Tom Baker is still alive, we could bring him back to Dr. Who and go cyberpunking.

@Mike_Jahn: so long and thanks for all the fashion

"...he really likes the Matrix 2, and everyone just thinks he looks like a cunt."

I'll be under my desk praying for the Plague.

A Steampunk makes me a latte a couple of times each week, but he doesn't really look like this.

I hate that this is lumped together with scifi....bleh.

The Demon barber of Fleet street wants his jacket back... and his iphone case.

*cough*Diamond Age*cough*

Thank god for this article, not a moment too soon either. This dumbassed word keeps popping up on my radar and I was loathe to actually make the wiki-effort to find out what crazy trend I'm thankfully ignorant of.

Thanks, you just completely ruined "Torchwood" for me.

Still not as scary as Loligoth.

Yeah, well, Wild Wild West sucked ass too.

How do I post a photo in comments??? I must show you this now...
[steampunkworkshop.com]

@Priam: Yeah! It makes sci-fi look totally lame.

at last.. a new subculture significant enough to mock constantly

@EleanorRigby: and the ladies aren't nearly as hot I'm afraid: [graphics8.nytimes.com]
Did they have to find a way to amuse themselves between Ren Faire seasons?

HA! This is totally something Richard Morgan wanted to write about four months ago according to those leaked Denton IMs.

[www.nytimes.com]

Isn't this how Duran Duran got started?

Whenever I answer my self-customized, teak-and-brass covered cellphone, I like to shout at the top of my lungs: "Hello? Hello? Confound this infernal contraption!!"

But I think it's starting to irritate people.

Why would you want your iPhone to be heavier?

@Our Lady of the Massacre: The Tim Burton lover in me is tickled as well. But it has to be done right, and to do it right seems ridiculously labor-intensive. Like, if you're not making a Tim Burton movie, it's not worth it.

Also, for some reason it's calling up that Will Smith movie that was supposed to be a sci-fi western. It has just about that much artistic integrity, I'd say. So I'm sure this will be the next installation at the Brooklyn Museum, after Murakami moves out.

Sheila,

1950s Steelcase isn't quite SteamPunk.

Extras from the "Tonight, Tonight" video have timetraveled from 1996.

@lalalina: *whispers* I'm seeing them in 13 days and plan to hurl myself onstage and bad touch John Taylor.

This all came out of Bruce Sterling and William Gibson's 1991 novel "The Difference Engine." Basically a reaction to what they saw as a future advancing too quickly to make science fiction writing relevant. William Gibson now writes techno-thrillers and Bruce Sterling is design professor/blogger...

blah, blah... my point is that it's a weak, pointless, escapist excuse for a subculture

@EncyclopediaFrown: That's quite an unfortunate example Morgan cited for the predictability of pop culture.

@Nathaniel_Poor: And that you don't read the posts?

@Doolittle: That was priceless. The house was my favorite part. The picture of the happy couple at the end was disappointing, though. I wanted to see the engagement photos very badly, until I saw how they had phoned it in for the wedding clothes.

@TedSez: Watch the season finale; it practically ruins itself. :o(

@hamburgerhotdog: Ah, now it all makes sense. They can blame the lack of sex in their lives on strict Victorian mores.

"I say, when I marry and this oppressive society of ours finally allows me to copulate, I shall do so with a most satisfactory vigor! How about you, Penelope?"

@MostlyHarmless: That song is still in rotation on my ipod

@Conbon: You know what else is good? The Difference Engine by Gibson and Sterling.

Oh. I thought "Steampunk" was what happened if you sat on the radiator during sex.

@StonedAndDethroned:
You rang?

I am so happy I am now at an age where I no longer feel the need to announce my individuality by dressing like a fucking idiot.

@moff: This is all really just an offshoot of the cyberpunk movement, as articulated by William Gibson in his novel, Neuromancer. Did you know that he also wrote The Difference Engine? I find that interesting.

@Conbon: You slice like Ronco.

@KarenUhOh: and Ashton Kutcher jumps out

@Plague: Nice. Have you just been hiding in the dumbwaiter waiting for someone to say that?

@Conbon: Yes! He wrote it with Bruce Sterling, who also collaborated on The Difference Engine with William Gibson, who introduced the concept of cyberpunk in his novel Neuromancer!

Damn Sheila, that's an awesome Nick Douglas impersonation post.

Now tell us about Goatse! And unicorns!

@Conbon: Who reads posts? But seriously, I mentioned it to articulate my point about what a weak excuse for a movement this is, especially one calling itself 'punk'

@moff: It would be cool if someone developed an aesthetic or even a subculture in the real world inspired by some of the books you guys are talking about.

@moff: You mean the Bruce Sterling who wrote the classic steampunk alternate history novel The Difference Engine with Neuromancer author William Gibson? Tell me more!

@Bell County: Shoes and soda cans beware.

@Nathaniel_Poor: Well, the "punk" bit actually came from "cyberpunk," a term inspired by William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and co-writer with Bruce Sterling of The Difference Engine, which was sort of where steampunk started.

@Bell County: BUT WHAT WOULD WE CALL IT???

@Nathaniel_Poor: (Sorry.)

Dang. At first glance, I thought that fellow in the photo was wearing a codpiece. Now I wish he was.

@Conbon: We have to stop now, not because the joke has grown old, but because it's lunchtime.

@Nathaniel_Poor: I will apologize if you can point to a subculture that cannot be labeled "escapist".

@moff: William Gibson invented lunchtime.

@moff: But where did punk come from? Did that come out of a writing movement as well? (for reals, I wasn't even alive when 'The Difference Engine' came out')

@Conbon: Sure, but some are a bit more subversive than others. I think Phish-followers were a little less subversive and political than their hippy-forefathers

Like I'm the only one who modded my laptop to look like "A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer". Am I right? What's everyone staring at?

These "steampunk" fashions are a frilly shirt away from goth couture.

Boy, man.