Air Kraken migration has arrived

The air-kraken migration over New Babbage has arrived for the year. I don't think they're an endangered species any more.

Breakfast in Babbage:The Apocalypse!

Rapture, Armageddon, The Apocalypse, The End of the World, Dogs and Cats living together, Leonardo DiCaprio winning an Oscar.

Songs about the End of the World. Will we be gone in a flash or will be party like it's 1999?

Come along to The Clarendon and find out. Or tune in to http://steampunk.radioriel.org

Memorial for Nix Sands

Last weekend, the typist behind the avatar known as Nix Sands lost his fight with pancreatic cancer. We were never close friends but I loved his creative spirit and he always had a kind word. We'd initially made friends after discovering a mutual interest in historical re-enacting back when he ran his shop called Yestergear.

Part of Nix's Monstro hat

He had a flair for the whimsy and the outrageous that brought a smile to many faces. And I loved his Dieslepunk vehicles, though I'm sad I didn't get all of them. Now I don't have the option.

Some of the attendees at his Memeorial

This is only the third virtual Memorial Service I have attended. Some people just disappear and you never know what happened to them. In Nix's case he'd been quite public about his diagnosis, although he stayed away from things like Relay For Life as it hit too close to home.

Bon Voyage Mr. Sands where ever you fare. Your light going out makes the place seem a little darker for all.

Breakfast in Babbage: 4th Anniversay Special!

Breakfast in Babbage 4th Anniversary
4 years ago this month Edward Pearse began his monthly novelty music event.
Join us this month for a special 3 hour anniversary programme!

8:00am to 11:00am SLT Today!

Join us at The Clarendon

Or tune in http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel-steampunk

Riel Conversations Interview

4 years ago I started the first of a regular gig called Breakfast in Babbage In honor of this, Gabriel Riel went behind the scenes to talk with me about the history of the show and what has inspired this wonderful wackiness.

You can listen to the show here or download the .mp3 file by right-clicking this link, selecting Save Link As... and saving the .mp3 to your computer.

The New Babbage 2013 RFL Pub Crawl

At 2:00pm SLT a large group met inside the Rusty Cog, the oldest existing pub in New Babbage.

Doctors Watson and Kaligawa, and Mr. Holmes had prepared a handy route map for participants.

Starting off with about two dozen of us we immediately got a taste of things to come as Victor forgot which way to get to the next stop and we had a sudden AV jam on the edge of the tram lines. A brief stop at the Red Cat and we headed to Loki's Absinthe Cafe

The revellers reach Lokis.

 Once departing Loki's the group headed south to the Cafe de Paris, and then onward to Rub's Pub. From there west to The Merryman, a remnant of last year's RFL build.

The Merryman of New Babbage

West again into Wheatstone and up to the top of Piermont Landing.  As often happens the process of 20 odd avatars trying to cross the same sim border at once is bound to lead to some interesting side effects. One of the urchins reported finding a bustle left lying about. Scandal!

The Sneaky Vole - out in the open for a change.

 A rather long trek north from the Vole to Ahab's Bane, which had recently suffered a bout of flamingo. It seems to have fully recovered. A tricky manoeuvre up the circular stairs (difficult even when sober) and into the Rusty Pint, where many people discovered that a bar made for petites and tinies is difficult to get into for adult AVs. To cope I let my inner dropbear free. Then on to The Bucket.

Inside the Bucket of Blood.

 Difficult to spot but I'm the dropbear standing on the bar behind Jimmy, about to pull his hat down around his ears. A reviving coffee and Oddson's and a much needed food stop at the Codswollop Fish & Chippery and we were off again. A stop at the Rangoon Pandemonium Bar inside the Waxworks, and then onto the Brass Monkey.

Brass Monkey Pub

 Doing bar duties and correcting the proof reading in my giveaway bottles before heading off to the Mushy Gherkin Goodbye Muirsheen Durkin and then across the road was a brief sober stop.

The CocoaJava Cafe

 The Cafe is now on its third owner and has weathered the storms of SL ownership. Onwards into Clockhaven with a stop at Babbage's smallest pub, the Red Rum Cave (a remnant of Babbage's steampunk Mars build from a few years ago), and then down to the Old Brewery, followed by Vrai Vert and then finally to the Gangplank.

Ganplank Tavern

 By this stage a few of the revellers were having trouble walking straight and Doctor Watson had collected a traffic cone from somewhere and was wearing it as a hat...

The Porthead Tavern

 The crowd had thinned by the time we got to the Porthead Tavern and the conversation was getting green.

The Backroom at the Whitby Cat and Tea Yard

The final stop was the Lotus of the Sea, where all the participants where given their own copy of the map to keep for posterity's sake.
Apologies to those establishments who's picture I didn't take. I was distracted partway through with external business.
Congratulation to those who made the full crawl and well done those who came along for part of it anyway.
I think I'll just drink this bottle of water and some painkillers and stay in a dark room for a few days until the construction work stops.
What do you mean there's no construction work?

Breakfast in Babbage: Beach Party!

Summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere and surf's up! So dig out your beach umbrella and togs and remember that to a seagull, everything is MINE!

Join Edward Pearse at The Clarendon 8:00am - 10:00am June 8th for 2 hours of music that will get sand into places you'll only find out about after you get home.

Breakfast in Babbage: Cowboys!

 

Bring out yer six guns and mosey on over to The Clarendon for heap o' both kinds o' music! Yessir we got yer Western Special here ta go! Sit around the camp-fire toasting hot schmoes, wearing your 38 litre hat.

Duded-up egg-suckin' gutter trash welcome too.

 

Join Edward Pearse at The Clarendon 8:00am - 10:00am May 11th

Breakfast In Babbage: The 80s!

It's Breakfast time again and we're looking at the 80s!

No, not the 1880s, but the 1980s: the decade when disco and flairs were out and perms and shoulderpads were in. Back when Transformers were still cool, Deloreans were the choice of time vehicle and Michael Jackson was black.

Join Edward Pearse at The Clarendon for 2 hours of novelty and nostalgia.

Saturday MORNING 13th of April.

8:00am - 10:00am

Seraph City's Third Birthday!

Join us this evening to help celebrate the 3rd anniversary of Second Life's Dieselpunk sim, Seraph City.

Dress in your best and catch a cab to the Seraph Club for 3 hours of Revival and original Swing, Jazz, and an assortment of tunes as only Edward Pearse can.

Saturday 6th of April
6:00-9:00pm SLT

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seraph%20City/64/80/106/

Or if you can't make it along in person, tune in to http://dieselpunk.radioriel.org