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Thursday, 10:14 am in Life

The thing about getting engaged and having an engagement party is that people have to buy you presents.  This can either be very, very good (the set of fancy saucepans mum gave us) or very, very bad (the candy floss machine we were going to buy for Ben and Erin).  Anyway, I have an aunty who has found her post-retirement calling making all these amazing pottery cerations that range from the mind-bogglingly tacky to the very impressive.

Anyway, this aunty has decided that for my engagement she wants to make me a teapot.  My first reaction, I have to admit, was a bit dubious until mum explained further; apparently my aunty wants to consult with me first so she can make me something I’d like.  I have to admit, that started to sound potentially really cool.  Initially I was planning on some kind of Alice in Wonderland theme (yeah yeah predictable blah blah) but after a bit of sketching I ended up with this squat little monster thing, with a mouth for a spout and a tail for a handle.  It’s pretty cute; now to see if my aunty can make it…

Apparently I want a bit nuts at Hot Topic about two weeks ago; a big box of t-shirts arrived yesterday to replace my old ThinkGeek ones which are starting to fall apart.  One of the tees is a nuveaux-retro Max Headroom shirt.  I remember watching one single episode of Max Headroom as a kid and thinking it was the greatest thing ever… and also being dreadfully crushed to find out Max wasn’t actually computer generated.  Anyway, some nice soul has uploaded a bunch of the episodes to YouTube, so I’ve been watching them (slowly; streaming a 45 minute show is still a bit much for my net connection).  It’s wonderfully retro, even outside of the deliberate, Brazil-style anachronisms.  Plus it’s funny to listen to people talk about only being able to render a head since the ‘point calibrations’ are too difficult for a full body.  Apparently twenty minutes into the future is actually fifteen years in the past.

That’s the thing about cyberpunk, though; it fell totally out of fashion (at least in the West) when far too much of it started coming true.

Note to Self:  Wearing a shirt with cut-out shoulders to work is a good way of getting, “we need to pay Dee more so she can afford clothes withou holes in them” comments all day.  I just say the cut-out bits make it more expensive; women’s clothing is mad like that.

• Tags » cyberpunk, engagement, family, fashion, max headroom, presents, teapot
• Comments By » ~Mat [h]