Festive airship story!

So, I was on a break from slavishly working, Bob Cratchit style, on Christmas Eve, and I glanced through an issue of Smithsonian magazine that someone had left in the break room. They had an article about the Graf Zeppelin on Christmas. One of her regular missions was to transport Tannenbaums and Frohliche Weinachten to ze Germans who had settled in south America. It took the airship only four days to cross the Atlantic, and letters sent on her bore a special, and adorable, stamp.

It's a Christmas tree with a dirigible flying behind it! >D

If I had an airship, I would have a Christmas tree in the ballroom (yes it would have a ballroom).

New Abney Park Album!

After long weeks of waiting, I finally received "Aether Shanties" the new Anbey Park CD in the mail (It's the first album of theirs that I actually got the physical CD for). It's quite good. Not as industrial or tribal sounding as some of their other stuff, but all the tracks definitely sound like them.

There is a steampunky version of the traditional pirate song "The Derelict", with all the verses in their gruesome glory, and they wrote their own pirate song too, "Aether Shanties". It's definitely my favorite song on the album. They have another pirate song, "Ballad of Captain Robert", that is on Youtube from an acoustic set at a convention, and I think they should put it on a CD in the near future.

There is even a Steampunk anthem! That's right! It's called "Throw Them Overboard", and it pretty much sums it up. Any anthem that say "newfangled" is all right in my book, dang-nabbit!

One thing that came as a nice surprise were a couple of 1920's sort of jazzy numbers. When I heard them, the first thing I thought of was a sort of Bertie Woosterish character in a garish club full of aeronauts, but that is probably because I have just begun reading all the P.G. Wodehouse I can get my hands on. It makes me want to write a story I have had in my head for a while...