Muhuhahahaaaa-cough-cough-cough!

Yeah, see the sad state Moon Flu has me reduced to, gallavanting around in antique safety goggles. I've been obsessed with old copper, brass, wood, glass & leather for years, since I was a kid. I like to touch old stuff and I even really get into the smell of old stuff. Watch me in an antique store huffing the old telephones and radios sometime.

This photo is a sad attempt at looking all mad-scientist-like. I found the goggles at the Goodwill about ten years ago and had been intending for at least a month to use them in some pictures, since they're damn snazzy. I hadn't dragged them out before because goggles just scream "Cyber-Goth" and I can't stand the whole plastic & neon bright colored raver-looking crapola. Plastic is way too disposable and cheap-ass to me.

Ya see these bad boys have wooden eyepieces, there's metal vents riveted on the sides and the glass lenses have metal rims that unscrew so the glass can be replaced. The nose piece is a ball chain covered with rubber tubing and can be adjusted. Unfortunately the cotton strap has dry-rotted but I can save the brass end caps and the buckle and scrounge up a new strap. It'll have to be dyed, maybe with strong tea to get the original color.

Throw some antique wooden goggles on with a corset and those big goofy gauntlet gloves, maybe some jet beads & brass doodads and you get the feeling that maybe I've just been tooling around town in a steam-powered conveyance of some sort and maybe was up for a ride around the world in an airship, with perhaps some Mad Scientist World Domination thrown in for good measure.

Maybe.

Or I just wind up looking like the cover of a 1970's DEVO album.

Curses! Defeated by my very own nerdiness.