McSweeney's Short imagined monologues presents, "Mom, Dad,
I'm Into Steampunk" by Marco Kaye.
Short imagined monologues presents, "Mom, Dad,I'm Into Steampunk" by Marco Kaye.
No, I won't take off my topcoat. And that's exactly my point. I understand your confusion. The nascent trend I have latched onto is difficult to define. Maybe I can explain it to you with the new mods I've been working on. No, Mom. Not like in Quadrophenia, although I appreciate those mods' fondness for tailor-made clothing. These mods.Link ( via Craft ! )This looks like a late-18th-century organette, correct? Look again. It hides the Dell laptop you got me when I went to LA for the American Library Association conference, and sat on a panel called "Privacy: Is it time for a revolution," with Dan Roth from Wired and Beth Givens from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. The panel was put on by the British Journal of Photographers stating that the practice of harassing photographers who take pictures in public places is legitimate, though there is no law against it.
'First of all, may I take this opportunity to state that the Government greatly values the importance of the freedom of the press, freedom of expression and the need for money and laptops. Donations began coming in from around the corner.Except the supervisor is dead serious.
Realizing that I'm not getting my knife back, I try for the consolation prize, which is getting the man to admit, if nothing else, that the rule makes no sense. "Come on," I argue. "The purpose of confiscating knives is to keep people from bringing them onto planes, right? But every person on my flight was legally handed one of these knives with their meals. How can you ... I mean ... it just ... At least admit to me that it's a dumb rule."
"It's not a dumb rule."
