Via VideoSift, a mashup of one of my favorite classic rock songs (I prefer the super extended versions) and classic Hammer horror:

If this doesn’t get you in the mood for Halloween, I don’t know what will!

I’ve been lazy about posting, I know. But I’ve been keeping my twitter updated, for the most part, and I’ve also uploaded pictures from SalonCon, which Keegan and I got all gussied up for last weekend. I don’t have much to say about that except that we had a wonderful time, and that Abney Park are great live despite experiencing crippling technical difficulties. We are certainly going to try to go again next year.

Now, as a segue to the topic at hand, read this essay by Bruce Sterling on the nature of steampunk. Remember, “the past is a kind of future that has already happened.” If we don’t go extinct by some sort of deleterious planetwide happenstance (as went the dinosaurs, so they say), surely we’ll eventually knock ourselves back into a pre-industrialized age, if not the dark age. Or the machines will take over. Whatever.

As for the topic at hand, enjoy this cheerful apocalyptic vision, a mashup of a Chuck E. Cheese advert and this educational film (via VideoSift):