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So, this weekend we were at White Mischief‘s “The Great Exhibition” in La Scala near King’s Cross; a Steampunk cabaret event with a few market stands and some other bits and pieces.

There are many, many photos, some of which are here. Rachel has a few on her Flickr site, too.

It was a good show. We did keep thinking ‘If we were running it, we’d have done this,‘ but that’s just us in our usual event-organiser mode. A number of excellent costumes, some good music (particularly Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer and Tankus the Henge) and a collection of cabaret acts that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. Only a couple of duff notes (oddly, echoing the problems with the Serenity event of a few weeks back).

Also nice that a whole bunch of us collided there — some through preplanning, some through happenstance.

Steampunk is clearly the up-and-coming genre. It’s been simmering away for a few years, but now seems to be boiling over. Odd, really — there’s no single big media event (like an extremely popular film) that I can think of which has given it the push. We were wondering if it started with the resurgence of burlesque — maybe it’s just that the gents who go along want to be able to dress up, too…?

As you may have gathered, Bill was there. With a silly costume he’d built the day before.

And, to give you some idea of the high profile of Steampunk at the moment — Bill found his way on to the front page of BoingBoing. And my chin found its way on to a BBC report on the event.

Rather different from the normal coverage of us wearing silly outfits!

In other news, I heartily endorse the Daily Mail song.

In very brief other news:

• Work=busy.
• Cardiff=far away.
• Script draft 1 finished, draft 2 under way.
• New writing project codename D under way and gathering steam.
• Labour MP replied to my letter about the Digital Economy Bill by passing the buck to Mr Mandelson. Who hasn’t replied, needless to say.
• New tech project codename T under way and gathering steam.
• The omens look good. Shame we had to kill the goat to find that out, really…

Rachel and I are having major problems with email at the moment. Our normal email addresses have stopped working, and may be in that state for a few days for all I know. If you need to contact us, comment here and I’ll get in touch (we still have working email addys, just not the normal ones).

Damn you, technology!

Update: Fixed! Thank gawd…