23 4 / 2012
This IS the week of the Steampunk Empire Symposium and quoting Aloysius Fox, “we are more stoked than a steam engine on full power to see you all this weekend”. Couldn’t agree more. Cheers!
Full Story:
http://www.steampunkempire.org/…Four_Days_Left.html
23 4 / 2012
Charlie has watched the film Into the Wild twice over the past week. He explains why, shares it with Ginny Tonic and offers up his thoughts on this real life story.
Story link:
http://www.charlietonic.com/2012/04/23/into-the-wild/
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23 3 / 2012
Drunk and Sailor
Pirates invade the Symposium! We are pleased to announce that bawdy songsters Drunk and Sailor will be joining the music line up.
Phillip is usually the drunk, and Capt. Amos is usually the sailor. Sometimes they’re both drunk, and sometimes they’re both sailors. Every once in a great while they are both drunk and both sailors.
Phillip McGuinness and Captain Amos met in 2005 as cast members of the Kentucky Renaissance Faire. After a couple years of doing improv acting together, they started appropriating unused stages with a guitar and a will to entertain. They have since been seen at renaissance festivals from the Gulf Coast to Lake Michigan, sci-fi/fan conventions including DragonCon, and more bars than they can remember (though that may have more to do with the alcohol than the number of bars).
Recently they started working with a group of musicians collectively known as the Loose Cannons doing punk rock versions of the same sea chanteys and drinking songs.
Whether they be acoustic or electric, Drunk & Sailor shows feature the same highly interactive format. (Un)lucky audience members often find themselves dragged onstage.
22 3 / 2012
Who will present the best airship at this year’s Steampunk Empire Symposium (April 27-29, 2012 in Cincinnati, OH)?
Details on the races:
http://steampunkempire.org/…/2011/11/10_Airship_Races.html
Imperial Chinese Airship
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12 3 / 2012
Please tell me you’ve been watching the Pandoracon website! If you haven’t then you’ve been missing the new mix of DAILY science fiction commentary taking place there as a host of writers have descended onto the site and began writing furiously. Great things are afoot.
12 3 / 2012
Would you like to know the story behind this photo? Check out episode #10 of the Charlie Tonic Hour podcast! (Photo provided by the ever amazing Emma Peelout)
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24 1 / 2012
We cordially invite you to check out the new Pandoracon website at www.pandoracon.com!
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20 1 / 2012
Roxx Electrocafe (214 Calhoun Street – on the edge of the University of Cincinnati campus) “… never will you find a more caffeinated hive of nerds and geekery.”
Join us this evening starting at 8:00 PM!
Every third Wednesday of the month, Cincinnati’s most chic fans of Sci-Fi, fantasy, and all that good stuff come together to drink far too much coffee (or tea, or whatever) and chat endlessly about films, comics, TV, fandom, life, games, and everything that else that occupies an over active imagination. Come as you are, leave even geekier yet more stylish? Find out!
(Source: shirtoid, via sogeekchic)
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19 1 / 2012
Things get a little sexy in this week’s installment of the Charlie Tonic Hour as comics, vodka and panties guide the show!
Check it out at http://www.charlietonic.com/2012/01/18/episode-3-comics-vodka-and-panties/
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18 1 / 2012
Photo by Corielle Riddell
The January salon of the League of Cincinnati Steampunks was one for the record books. Forty people filled three rooms at Arnold’s in Cincinnati Ohio on the evening of January 7th, the largest number we’d ever had. Get all the details in a recent blog post by the one and only Ginny Tonic!
http://www.charlietonic.com/2012/01/13/how-many-steampunks-can-you-fit-into-a-bathtub-the-weekend-in-review/
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