Little questions

[smokingboot]

Anyone know of any steampunk events occuring in London throughout November and December?

Ooh, and another question, if I wanted to check out all the comments made by one given friend or contributor to my lj, does anyone know of a way that doesn't entail wading through my archives?

Cheers!

Comments

[sack-boy.livejournal.com]

There are a number of Steampunk and similar LJ communities - they might know.

anachrotech

uk_steampunk

There's more, I did a communities search - could be more useful sources of info in there.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant, cheers!

[thalinoviel.livejournal.com]

I don't know but I feel there ought to be a steampunk trip to the Science Museum, they have a lot of excellent stuff in one hall now and as long as we avoid the wellcome wing (moodily lit sodall) it should be good.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Well here's the thing you see; I now really need to start putting footage together for my showreel and I would love to interview steampunkettes and cybernauts in the appropriate setting - joining them immediately afterwards as one of their number. A group of us visiting the science museum would be class, though I am woefully sans costume...

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you can search comments - try looking at your home page; there may be a search facility.

I dun sed nowt, excpet lots of comments about Jim Dale!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Your Jim Dale comments have been noted and passed on to Matron.

I am doing some horror story research, and hybridartifacts sent me a fantastic story about heads in beer. I could contact him, but I feel guilty about asking him to type the whole thing again for me...

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

lol

The 'heads in beer' story is, according to an ancestor of mine of dubious reliability, quite real/true.
This was an event that was built up over a series of days/nights in a warehouse for the West India company (he was a messenger boy for the company, going between the docks/warehouses and offices, mostly around Whitechapel around the time of Jack the Ripper, which gives the story a bit of an ambience I guess).

It was the custom of the warehouse men to occasionally 'sample' the wares - in this case they had secretly 'tapped' a barrel of Rum. It took them a fair while to drink and they kept quietly coming back to it, taking a drink here or there and sometimes, when unobserved, holding a small party or two. This particular barrel was exceptional, and they all agreed it was by far the best rum they had ever tasted. Of course, its what is in the rum that gives it its taste, and they became curious as to what was giving this barrel its unique and distinctive flavour. Eventually they decided to open the barrel up and have a look, because usually it meant that some contaminant had got in. To their horror they discovered a severed human head.

My interest in the story was that the area around Whitechapel has a long history of severed heads - not the least that the nearby Tower of London was the scene of many a beheading. It is also the site where the miraculous severed head of Bran the Blessed (which still sang and told stories) was said to have been originally buried. This is actually the likely origin of the legend of the ravens at the tower (Brans' sacred bird) and their protecting England. Bran was supposed to have his head buried under Tower Hill to protect England from invasion-only King Arthur was rumoured to have dug it up, claiming that as king it was his job to protect the country not Bran's.

see-you didn't have to ask-Im mad enough to do it anyway ;)

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

You are lovely, thank you! What a brilliant story:-D

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

:D

Suzette says Hi btw.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

and Hi back to Suzette! I hope you are both well and happy. Are you going to be at the Inspired Arts Fair this year?

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

I know there's a Steampunk LARP...but it's in Brighton! Loads of London people go though; if you're interested, I can get a buddy who goes to email some info :)

As for the comments, LJ's own FAQ seems to suggest that you can't really do that kind of search.

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=215

However, it mentions a widget (right at the bottom of the page) that may or may not help..?

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thank you my dear! Brighton might be a bit far for what I have specifically in mind but I would love to read the info just in case I could join in!

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Will ask her this evening :)

[mrtonylee.livejournal.com]

Ghostfire are playing in Kentish Town in the middle of the month...

www.myspace.com/ghostfire

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thank you Mistah, very interesting indeed!

[jfs.livejournal.com]

If you search google as follows:

site:smokingboot.livejournal.com hybridartifacts

You get all mention on your journal (that's what the site:smokingboot.livejournal.com bit does) of the word hybridartifacts.

If you add beer to that search, the following appear:

http://smokingboot.livejournal.com/284265.html
http://smokingboot.livejournal.com/314359.html
http://smokingboot.livejournal.com/296394.html

I don't know if any of those are the post you meant?

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Forgot to add:

The above will help if you're searching for public posts. If you're searching for friendslocked posts, I don't think Google can see those.

For private / friendslocked posts, I think that the only way to search them is to have an off-line archive - LJ's own search is rubbish. I use LJ Archive (http://fawx.com/software/ljarchive/) which is the only software I found which downloads all my posts, and all the comments on them. Very useful, and free :-)

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thank you my dear, this is very useful indeed. It doesn't appear in any of the posts above, but thank you for trying for me, I shall try the google search as you suggest...

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

A very commendable attempt - but if I remember correctly I told her the story when I met her at one of my art shows in London, so it wouldn't be in her journal. It is now though, since I was happy to type it out!
It was rum, not beer btw. It is actually googleable if you search for 'hybridartifacts, 'rum' and 'livejournal' you get a very different thread in my own journal (the story is near the bottom of the thread):
http://hybridartifacts.livejournal.com/29328.html