Prepare to be Boarded!

Avast, maties!

Here's be hopin' that yer buckets are full of chum and your rowlocks get the attention they deserve, for today be Talk Like A Pirate Day - the glorious 19th of September. Arrrrr!!!!

This be the fifth year I be celebratin' TLAPD and it's happy I am that I be no longer be chained to the oars in the Dastardly Slave Ship Steeles!  Death and Maroonin' to all lawyers! Arrr!

Once the sun is over the yardarm I'll be wallowing in grog, but before that me and my proud beauty canarieschick are invading Riverside and will be pillaging something called "Odeon" for a magic lantern show called "Tropic Thunder"  T'is a promisin' name for a swab like me - hopefully will be an instructional show about Tropic of Capricorn and the danger of thunderstorms in that area.  Matters not, as if it disappoints I'll be slicing the gizzards of the lubbers and carrying off as much booty (maize bread and cheese, the popped corn and Cocaine-Kola) as the hold will carry.

What you be doin' this piratey day?

Here be a few itemes I found while sailing around my lagoon.

1. Kate Pearce talks knowledgabely about m/m and m/m/f (and variants) subplots in mainstream - the perils and pitfalls of getting them in there.

2. I did a pure self-indulgent post yesterday over at the Macaronis about men in costume drama and why we love them so.

3. John McCain a) Needs a hearing aid b) a Geography lesson c) retirement d) all of the above

Blistering Barnacles! Film Night: Tropic Thunder

I've been keelhauled mateys!  Me and my cabin-boy canarieschick sat down to watch Tropic Thunder - some Shipping Forecast about the Tropic of Capricorn I thought - to find it was some war film!  I shot the usher in the aisles, overturned the popped corne stand and plundered the grog bar in disgust. 

However it was bloody funny and I loved it.( Read more... )

If you like war films, you'll spot the references, if you like Hollywood satire (they are harsh - but I think they could have been harsher!), if you like to laugh at "luvvies" - all good reasons to go and see this.  I think it's one of the best films this year to be honest, and I wonder if the satire will go over people's heads. They might see it like a watered down "superhero movie" or something - which in a way - it is- but it's far far FAR cleverer than that.


Hamlet in Facebook stylee - hilarious.

ETA:  I've just noticed that you can change Googles language to "Pirate" - BRILLIANT!

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