Much Ado About About

At last, I am only breaking nineteen of the twenty Keen Bloggers’ Commandments: I have an “About” page.

Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome.

If It Ain’t Baroque…

You loved/tolerated Steampunk Star Wars: now it’s Baroque Star Wars! (Plus a side order of Calamity Jon robots.)

Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome.

Gernsblack

They got all this machinery, but that ain’t everything. We the machines inside the machines.
—Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

It’s alternative history time, kids! This is something I wrote last year as part of an alternate history writing game. Some explanation follows at the end.

Granville Woods, W.C. Handy, Lewis Latimer

Gernsblack

Aka: Handy, John Henry, Gernsback-B

Tesla couldn’t do it. He was never going to do it. J.P. Morgan was standing on his neck for results and it didn’t matter. Tesla couldn’t make his wireless power caster work. Not until Tesla’s assistant, W.C. Handy, figured out the problem: Tesla’s coils were too tightly wound. Isn’t that always the way?

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[Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome here or there.]