The Vapors

I have been drawn to the Steampunk look for years but have never really explored it since - well - it's a bit of a commitment.  Like a tattoo,  if you are inked, well, you have ink.  You are tattooed.  Now - there are the wee little (ooooh just get my palm tree over with Jessie - I need to get back to Tony at the Tiki bar) and then there's INK.  I like to think I have Ink.  Committed and totally hooked but I can interview nicely.  Nothing up the ear -  nothing on the knuckles - I can still pass as normal.  But I love my look.  I don't have anything I apologize for.  I've covered a few things but well this isn't about ink it's about an idea.

Steampunk.

I'm a huge Jules Vern fan.  Much like some people get into Renaissance Faires (yes please) or Comic Con . . . I would do Steampunk or even Swing but that's another look and another post.  The Victorian Era is appealing on so many levels -  IN FREAKING RETROSPECT!  I like my modern plumbing and underwire bra thankyouverysecretmuch! It's a great look - but frankly googles and clockwork parts don't really fit my job nor life.  But I think what I like the most is it's a mismatched blend of what is cool from the past (yeah my version of cool) and what's cool from the future that never was - (again - my version).  I do mismatched SO WELL I should have coined the phrase.  I like taking my today and retooling it to a version that fits.  I have been the Harleychick - short skirt - boots to the knee - pony tail mama AND the Business Woman in the tailored skirt and Louis purse.  Still me.  Still inked and pierced.  I like the dichotomy.  I like Steampunk because it shouldn't work.  It shouldn't make sense - And yet it does.  Like a Magritte painting - it works because it's the unexpected but really not.  You expect me to say one thing because you view me as mommy Christian whatever and when I say the smart witty Python comment - it shocks you.  I'm okay with that now since I'm 43 (almost years) into it.  I still believe I'm in the meaning of life age - til October anyway.  I was an old soul - too smart for my paygrade - I'm ready to transcend.  More on my life choice - or at least schooling decision (thanks Roger!) later, but I'm going back to school.    


Oh and music choice to hear this is Rush's Vapor Trails.  


Really! - a word like "Vapors" gets stuck in my head and I need to follow it down the proverbial Rabbit Hole and it made me think of "getting the vapor's" like the Victorian's actually thought melancholy was a real condition.  Now, we have prozac for that.  LOL.  


Really, I personally think the vapor's were better.