Comments on: #136: Take Off That Store-Boughten Underwear: A Shocking Report from the Land of the Young

By: David

David — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:25:30 +0000

yea i think steampunk was around in novels and such since the 1970s, but it really has only just caught on over the last decade….
man, being old must stink, not knowing about important subcultures of american society…. note the sarcasm

By: Baron von rassilon

Baron von rassilon — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:35:49 +0000

Umm, I have always like old things. I collect vintage stuff. Anything late 1800 to prior 1940. I’m 52 though, does that make me a steam punk or just an old guy??
But I’m am really happy to see something new. Goth has gotten so old and worn out and tiresome.

By: Motionnn

Motionnn — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:49:10 +0000

I love the panties pictured. They’re adorable. I went to a club for a party recently that had two huge floors of ‘steampunk’ decor. This was last month. However, I didn’t know it was called steampunk. I thought of it as 1920’s gothic. Beautiful and hideous. Loved it.

Oh, and I’m 36. I guess I’m not cool.

By: Asta

Asta — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:06:30 +0000

Never heard of “steampunk”, either (I m 49).
Love this, especially those morbid looking “squirrels”. Not sure about the checked flannel panties, though. Guess my bum looks big in these, lol.

By: Drinne

Drinne — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:06:23 +0000

Umm, Steampunks been around for farkingever and I hate to tell you but many of the practitioners are over the age of 30 and are part of the maker community . . .

It’s a counterculture thing, not a youth thing – except for the whole “Steampunk is the new black” many old school goths who were into the Victorian of it all moved into Steampunk as a reaction to cyberpunk and aging – apparently the New York times did an article so some people think it’s as mainstream as YM punk, (that’s “Young Miss Punk” if you don’t know– because they make it about the fashion and eyeliner instead of what it really was) but steampunk still really more of an arts movement and a reaction to mass production.

Oh yeah – I’m over 40 so that’s why I can be amused that it’s perceived as “youthful” when it was more about a maturing group of arts minded people who would have been considered “goths” from the outside.

Now – get off my hydraulically watered brass and glass lawn. : )

By: Jakelin

Jakelin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:13:44 +0000

I’ve never heard it before either, and I’m not over 40, my paretns are but i’m 14

By: Mookie

Mookie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:16:20 +0000

I don’t think not knowing steampunk makes you ‘officially old’ — I’m 17 and never heard the word before in my life!

By: Pamela Redmond

Pamela Redmond — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:33:12 +0000

Yeah, we’d all rather have the laptop or even the squirrel sculptures than the underwear. Sigh.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:26:50 +0000

I want that laptop.