Moustache Monday: The Revolution
Posted by Eliza Gauger
It’s maddening. Consensus in the Ectoffices is that steampunk jumped the shark sometime early this year, and yet I cannot stop my claws from involuntarily clutching, covetously, at shirts like these.
The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed [TopatoCo]
Categories: Moustache Monday
Posted at 8:20 am on September 1, 2008
14 Comments -
Wait–I thought steampunk jumped the shark back in 1999, and everything since has been merely ironic restructuring.
Comment by randal — September 1, 2008 @ 9:27 am
Egad! This “Tee shirt” explains why I have heard nothing of my holdings in Siam! How inconsiderate of those revolutionary scoundrels. Some of us need news such as this telegraphed.
Comment by Mordred — September 1, 2008 @ 9:32 am
I thought Steampunk was largely unknown by the masses. I had no idea it was anywhere near Fonsi level coolness. let along shark jumping
Comment by George — September 1, 2008 @ 10:06 am
is it wrong to claim to be “into” a literary genre you don’t care much about just for the cool t-shirts?
Comment by jason — September 1, 2008 @ 10:47 am
Awesome.
Comment by Jeb — September 1, 2008 @ 11:56 am
It’s not so much jumped the shark, perhaps. My theory is that it’s merely reached a certain level of ubiquity in which a lot more people start doing it wrong because they decline to research the topic and simply assume anything with a couple brass rivets is so totally steampunk.
Comment by Giania — September 1, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
It’s really rather embarrassing how many shirts I own with guns on them. But ok. That’s bloody COOL. I want one for me, and one for my shark friend over here.
Comment by Libby Bulloff — September 1, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
Didn’t the term “jump the shark” jump the shark many, many years ago?
And I don’t think Steampunk will jump the shark until it’s featured on VH1.
But thanks anyway for letting me know, O Fashion Police. Perhaps you’d let us all know what the next trend will be and are you already “into” it?
Comment by Bsti — September 1, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
It’s okay, Bsti, let the hipster have its fun. We can just keep having ours without it. Would anyone mind throwing some more coal into the engine of our locomotive Victorian airship?
Comment by Kingfisher — September 1, 2008 @ 5:26 pm
http://suite100gallery.com/artist/elizagauger
think gauger probably knows a thing or two about airships….
Years later, I found myself advising goth-rock band Abney Park to abandon their spooky trappings and pursue more lofty goals. The airship “HMS Ophelia” was born, and buoyed them upwards.
Comment by speaking of airships — September 1, 2008 @ 5:35 pm
Did somebody say “Shark?”
Comment by eltiburo — September 1, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
> let us all know what the next trend will be
Voltpunk: 1901 (Queen Victoria dies, first transatlantic radio transmission) through 1947 (Max Planck dies, transistor is born) + punk (do-it-yourself + anti-authority + black humor).
http://novel-a-month.com/category/voltpunk/
December, 1935. A thief in Kingston has been re-routing bank transfers coming over the wire from Panama. He overhears a Morse code broadcast from a woman in Addis Ababa pleading for help: the Italians are using airplanes to spray poison gas. The thief has been expecting something like this. He packs a case and heads for the airstrip.
Comment by Fritz Bogott — September 1, 2008 @ 10:02 pm
An AK? How gauche.
He really needs to be brandishing a fine old English nitro express double rifle, ala Alan Quartermain.
Comment by krazmo — September 2, 2008 @ 11:52 am
Why has credit not gone to the creator of this shirt?
It is none other than David Malki! Creator of Wondermark.
http://wondermark.com/wm_store.html
Comment by Aelix E. — September 9, 2008 @ 10:44 pm