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Steampunk podcast on happenings in Texas. News and reviews of novels, comics, movies and anything steampunk.
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Friday Aug 25, 2023
Friday Aug 25, 2023
recorded August 22, 2023
Tonight's conversation goes from stores stocking the Halloween stuff, to a sin against beer, to breaking into the the online library and how to get lost works of fogotten knowledge. Is there a Pirate Bay of educational material?
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
recorded August 22, 2023
Steampunk is the August of genres. Thax, Bluestocking and Jack on an other ride through the Steampunk universe on a runaway train.
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
recorded August 1, 2023
Tonight's theme is the Desert, and not the Sweet Kind! Jack, Thax and Blue Stocking talk about this summer heat and films based on the classic pulp genre, from Indiana Jones to the Jungle Cruise, to the original H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel hero, Allan Quatermain!
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
recorded July 11, 2023
Middle of summer and it's time again to check in with the Texas crew.
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
recorded June 27, 2023
We're elbows deep into 100+ summertime heat. So we dive into the sea of the current event de jure. The Oceangate sub has been crushed under the weight of nearly 13,000 feet of water. We discuss the event, as compared to the Titanic sinking in 1912. What are your opinions of the wealthy and "Adventure Tourism"?
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Friday Jun 16, 2023
recorded June 13, 2023
Never mind the 100+ weather. Stay indoors with Laura Meyer's new fashion-forward card deck. We'll also share drinks and chew the fat on new steampunk minutiae. Jack is put off by steampunk worlds where the tech doesn't make sense. Are you tired of writing pandering to Steampunk without really developing a believable story?
Friday Jun 02, 2023
Friday Jun 02, 2023
recorded May 30, 2023
Summer is hitting and we're trying to carry on. Two weeks ago Madam Misfit was robbed after a gig and our own generous patron pushed her go-fund-me over her goal. Abney Park played a private stream that became less private, and Scott Helland kicked off a kickstarter for his latest album. Bluestocking explores the steampunk options in Animal Crossing. Jack points us to Victorian medical quackery with Kaz Rowe.
the Deadly World of Victorian Patent Medicine
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
recorded May 16, 2023
The month of May is flyin by, but Jack and Thax are here to gab. Thax explains the cheapest way to get into home brewing with the finer points of making ciders and bath tub hooch. Jack tells us about the Victorian arms dealer, the mysterious Basil Zaharoff. And the Time Travelers
Convention in Quincy, IL is cancelling their entertainment showrunners for lack of ticket sales. Digging their own hole, as we see it.
Friday May 05, 2023
Friday May 05, 2023
recorded May 2, 2023
Yesterday was May Day, being International Workers Day and/or Beltane! Summer is coming up on us fast! We discuss Peter Pan & Wendy and our favorite Peter Pan films. Guillermo Del Toro is putting together a new Frankenstein project so we hit on our fave Mary Shelly adaptions. Jack tells us about Lackadaisy, a web comic about 1920's cat bootleggers that has been made into an animated short.
Friday Apr 21, 2023
Friday Apr 21, 2023
recorded April 18, 2023
Today is tax day in the US, and we are quickly running out of springtime weather. Still have RenFests to visit, but its getting hot. Kitty joins us to talk this and that. Thax just returned from adventure in the Yucatán, dipping into Cenote Santa Rosa and having a ball. He then toured the Surreal Garden event in Austin's Zilker Botanical Gardens.
The Witches' Ball: Conclave of the Kraken
The Rabbit Hole bar in Leander, Tx