We went to The Great Exhibition last night. This statement alone of course requires some clarification. By "We" I refer to myself of course, but also B-San and S-San. By "Exhibition" I mean a Steampunk themed evening of various entertainments and by "Great" I mean yeah, that was pretty cool.
If you want a working definition of Steampunk I shall offer only this insight from B-San: "It's goth, but without the dickheads".
So, what was happening? Well there were various acts and bands perfoming on stage, a variety of interesting and expensive goods were on sale or display, and all about were a variety of interestingly attired individuals. Obviously there were a lot of goggles wandering around, but the attire ranged from the expected pseudo victoriana through to 40's and 50's and beyond. So just looking at the crowd was interesting enough.
The acts on offer gave a fair variety of entertainments. Obviously some were better than others, depending on your tastes. For example we had an interesting chap called Bruce Airhead who climed inside a balloon in a suprisingly interesting way, and Voltini, who aside from being made of raw SCIENCE! actually shoved an electrode right up his arse. That might not sound particularly enticing, but then he did light a peanut butter sandwich on fire using an electric woman.
I guess I'm saying that you really had to be there.
Despite arriving somewhat later than intended, and leaving somewhat earlier a good time was had by all. But then we had V.I.P. tickets, and were thus inherently special. If no other reason than we didn't have to engage in the standard melee to reach the bar with the rest of the proles. Shockingly however there was a distinct lack of tea on offer, which was a little dissapointing.
Especially when you consider the whole thing was MC'd by this guy:
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