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Posts published in November 2011

[OC] In the matter of John the Toad

Someone asked me why I kept calling Henri Metier “le Crapaud”. Blame the fact I was once a British reenactor.  Just as Americans of the…

Londons Burning

Even in the 21st century there are some blasts from the past …….. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056431/Londons-burning-gas-lamp-engineer-keeps-citys-historic-centre-illuminated-true-Victorian-style.html  

Swiss clockworks show in NYC

If you happen to be near NYC this month, don’t miss the Sandoz Collection of Mechanical Wonders, now at A La Vieille Russie Gallery on…

On Failures and Phantasms

  It crept up on me. For the first time feeling homesick. Here I am, on the eve of establishing myself proper in my new…

An homage (OOC)

May our tears return him safely home. 

(Dark Aether) – Overseas Airmail

Gadget lay on the roof breathing in the smog that felt like nectar to his lunges after the hours of sucking it through charcoal. At…