Sometimes a Steam Knight must do What a Steam Knight must do

(Images taken from A Gentlemen’s Duel)

No, this is what going Mad must feel like

Cindy und Bert — Der Hund von Baskerville

or
the complete album version

No, your ears are not deceiving you. This is, I believe, a German song about the Hound of the Baskerville’s done to the tune of Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’. And sung and danced with typical Teutonic joyfulness.

(Courtesy of Robo at Action Typist)

“This is what going mad must feel like”

For Firefly Fans–

The Browncoats — The Hero of Canton (The Man They Call Jayne)

(HT to IO9)

Can’t Touch This

(image courtesy of Boing Boing)
Hammer Time!

Coming Attractions – Black Dynamite

Coming in 2009:

BLACK DYNAMITE

Black Dynamite is:

…the story of 1970’s action legend Black Dynamite. When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

Our Film Critic says: Badass!

An Introductory to NOT IN FRONT OF THE SERVANTS

Gentle Readers–

NOT IN FRONT OF THE SERVANTS is an Aetheric Journal suitable for Fellows of Good Breeding and Good Taste who appreciate the Frivolous & the Entertaining & the Eccentric including (but not confined to) Victoriana, Neo-Victoriana, Scientific Romances & Phantasies, Boys’ Own Adventures, Pulp Fiction, The Sensation Novel, Gothic Horror and other Whimsicalities.

This Journal is MOST UNSUITABLE for the Lower Orders; or for Women, or Chaps of a Nervous Disposition ; who are advised not to Read it, without the express permission of their respective Employer or Husband or Guardian (as Appropriate) for fear of Upsetting their Delicate Mental Balance.

Your Humble Servant,
Mild Colonial Boy, Esq.

P.S. Those Chaps who are interested in Common-sense Tory Opinions on Matters of Politics and Society may be interested in THE BOY’S OWN PAPER. This Journal is NOT for Radicals, Socialists, Suffragists, Foreigners and other Rabble who risk Apoplexy upon reading it’s contents.

P.P.S. While generally considered a Matter of Entertainment – the esoteric nature of Games of Imagination & Storytelling (otherwise vulgarly known as Tabletop RPGs) have caused such matters to be confined to yet another Journal, A WANDERING MONSTER, I.

Bartitsu: the gentlemanly art of self defence

From Tony Wolf of The Bartitsu Society a Most Excellent Tribute to the Neglected Art of Bartitsu and its Creator :

A Musical Interlude for Nicola Tesla

In celebration of the birthday of one of the Patron Saints of Steampunk, Nicola Tesla, Not in Front of the Servants would like to present two live presentations of The Handsome Family’s Tesla’s Hotel Room.

This rather minimalist version:

Or alternatively THIS.

Here are the lyrics from the Handsome Family’s Lyrics Page :

Tesla’s Hotel Room…

In the last days of wonder
When spirits still flew
where we sat holding hands
In half-darkened rooms

Nicola Tesla
In the hotel New Yorker
nursing sick pigeons
by the open window

dreamed of a death ray
To disintegrate matter
detected Morse code
From faraway planets

he couldn’t stand the touch
of hair or of skin
but stroked feathers gently
on trembling wings

and drew plans for a camera
To photograph thoughts
Vacuum tube lights
Wireless phones

In the last days of wonder
When spirits still flew
Round bubbling test tubes
In half-darkened rooms

Edison and Westinghouse
in silk brocade
ate oysters Rockerfeller
with French champagne

But Tesla grew thin
eating only saltines
going days in his lab
Without any sleep

dreaming of god
as an X-ray beam
he was hit by a cab
while crossing the street

lying on his bedspread
he struggled to breathe
the light bulbs exploded
the air filled with wings

In the last days of wonder
When spirits still flew
Tesla vacated
his half-darkened room

Musical Interlude – Lily the Pink

Lily the Pink — Scaffold

For Further Information regarding “Lily the Pink” and its origins go to Esceptic.

221B Baker Street

Gentle Readers,

This Wonderful picture of Sherlock Holmes’ abode was taken from Strange Maps and was drawn by Russell Stutler, an American Chap currently residing in Tokyo.

Your Humble Servant,
Mild Colonial Boy, Esq.