!!!NOTHING'S SAFE RANT BLOG!!!: Who's in the driving seat of this boingboing shit car?

I read BoingBoing.net. Sometimes they have interesting posts. 50% of the time they post about ukuleles and steampunk.

Its probably just the editor/contributor's obsession with both intensely stupid topics, but its so frequent its almost like there is money involved, payola from Jo Honolulu Ukuleles Inc. and Col. Waxy Mustache's Brass Gears and Clockworks.

Above: Jo Honolulu

Above: Col. Waxy Mustache

The ukulele girls, well that's just annoying because its a really shallow topic of interest. Wow another wispy folk girl strumming out some clanky tune on a tinny instrument. Do people really care? Maybe this an attempt at creating some obscure genre of music the editor can list in his Facebook interests. Either way one, maybe two posts would have sufficed. But 5 a week? You've well worn out the novelty.

Above: Some run of the mill Ukulele girl.

Steampunk though, I find that way more offensive. I think I would have less issue with this 'lifestyle' if some genius hadn't piggy backed 'steam' on the word 'punk'. (I notice they've done the same thing with this 'gorepunk' crap, but let me keep to the topic at hand)

So you like..

anime based in some imaginary history path set in the Victorian era with advanced steam based technology.

typing on your engraved brass encased Linux box by candle light.

a horrible band that sounds like the musical offspring of Savage Garden and Evanescense.

and wearing a top hat & welding goggles with your pizza stained jogging pant ensemble.

You're a fucking nerd.

It's a style derived from an imaginary fairytale world and you're trying to create a lifestyle from it. You're like that Peter Pan creep with better craft skills!

Above: Steam-brother pan.

So please tell me, what does that have to do with the style of stripped down rock & roll music created from distaste for 70s A-O-R plop?

Nothing.

Wait, a minute ... hmmm, maybe it concerns the classic definition of the word 'Punk'.

From Merriam-Webster: Punk

Main Entry:
punk
Function:
noun
Etymology:
origin unknown
Date:
1596

1 archaic : prostitute
2 [probably partly from 3punk] : nonsense , foolishness
3 a: a young inexperienced person : beginner , novice ; especially : a young man b: a usually petty gangster, hoodlum, or ruffian : a young man used as a homosexual partner especially in a prison
4 a: punk rock b: a punk rock musician c: one who affects punk styles

Let me revise the definition of Steampunk to suit!

Steampunk:
A term given to the culture of boy prostitutes who catered to the patrons of Victorian steam baths.

Above:Losers

The work put into the costumes & the objects must really take some skill and hard work... but I don't want to hear about it you dorks. It probably takes a lot of work to make that shitty 'Shaker' style faux-antique scuffed up white furniture too, but I don't want to see that crap in my daily news feed either.