Mimsy Buttons has another of our incredibly fruitful chat sessions up on Polterheist. If you want to learn all about the glories of NASCAR romance novels skeedaddle on over. And comment on her blog, if you feel inclined. She's lonely over there.

Back from Austin, and I've hit the ground running.  Tonight is Festival de Piratas 8 at the Wonder Ballroom, and the residents of the Good Ship Vanity are all so fucking exhausted we're barely dressing up for the occassion (I wanted to shop for something a little bit more butch this year but the date crept up on me, so I'm debating between the " ( Read more... )

...has the official Captain Bonney stamp of approval.

The Depp-o-licious factor rates in at a full ten, due in part to several shirtless moments. Additionally getting rave reviews are: sea goddesses unbound, the presence of the Mysterious and Treacherous Orient in the person of Chow Yun-Fat, Bill Nighy and Geoffrey Rush in a balls-out competition ( Read more... )

Three important pirate videos for your enjoyment.

The top one is a French animation short brought to my attention by
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Be ye tired of pirates? Well ye be at the wrong blog then, matey.

I dug up this bit 'o treasure on the Talk Like a Pirate Day website. It be the courageous yarn of a plucky pirate wench tossed to the wild seas of corporate media culture. Read if ye dare, the tale of Mad Sally (wife of the notorious John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur of Talk Like a Pirate ( Read more... )

Yar, fer shits an' grins I loaded me user bio into th' Pirate Speak Translator (thanks,
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Everyone knows I like both pirates and porn.

These two interests have had a chance to fuse recently in a bit of pornography I wrote about an old Exalted character of mine who is essentially like my most beloved imaginary friend of all time. I won't go into the details (since trying to explain a really great role playing game to someone who wasn't ( Read more... )

We all know of the ancient Manichean polarity between ninja and pirates. Ninja and pirates have been mortal enemies since the dawn of the intarweb, and even today the Venn diagram of their crossing--that narrow slice of overlap between Japan and the Carribean--clatters loudly with the sounds of their weapons ( Read more... )

So the Festival de Piratas was more or less successful once again this year, but I've got to say: they either need to find some better pirate bands, or call it the Festival de Bogg and Salty. Because boy oh boy, did I drink a lot during the Ben Gunn Society. Because I had to.

Broadside Johnny was much more engaging than usual. hplovescats mentioned that 1) ( Read more... )

Coming this Saturday, June the 24, is Festival de Piratas VII. The crew is down by two these days, both
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