Welcome to The Gatehouse today! Unfortunately, we now have to sometimes skip a day in our posting schedule, but fear not, we will continue to provide you with the latest in steampunk and dieselpunk online!

A new steampunk blog, amply named The Steamblog, recently opened its doors. It looks promising so be sure to pay it a little visit.

The blog Stirred, Straight Up, with a Twist helps you remember that it is permanently 1962 (give or take a decade) and that the problems of the real world can be solved with a touch of glamour and a dash of style.

Troubled by a writers block? Try Wondermark’s Electro-Plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000: guaranteed to produce a spiffing ’punk tale for you! Thanks to Col. Adrianna Hazard for posting this at the Smoking Lounge.

We also thank the good Colonel for bringing to our attention the excellent 1920s Radio Network at WHRO—“a 24 hour per day Big Band and Old Time Radio service that is geared toward the preservation of nostalgic broadcasting.” Enjoy!

Of course, to discuss “Diesel Music” in general (if there is such a thing) head over to the Smoking Lounge and talk about it here. And we also have a thread for more regular musical tastes.

For a wonderful compendium of this age’s wonders, curiosities, and esoterica, visit the Atlas Obscura, “a collaborative project with the goal of cataloging all of the singular, eccentric, bizarre, fantastical, and strange out-of-the-way places that get left out of traditional travel guidebooks and are ignored by the average tourist.” Thanks to HildeKitten for posting this.