Friday, September 26, 2008

Captain Hornigold at leisure in Key West

The air's warm, the water's warm, the women are warm, the beer's cold, and there are boats; it doesn't get much better than this...

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Pirate movie for the day

There are good pirates and bad pirates, and then there's Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow in The Curse of the Black Pearl... If you haven't seen it (or the following two sequels, Dead Man's Chest and At World's End), arrghh.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Talk like a pirate day

This day, every year, it's International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
The two wackos who started it, Ol' Chumbucket (aka John Baur) and Cap'n Slappy (aka Mark Summers), have released a book, The Pirate Life. Arrgghh...

Friday, September 12, 2008

Pirate City for the day

Searle's Raid reenactment in St. Augustine, Florida in 2004.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Pirate City for the day

Captain Hornigold participating in Searle's Raid on St. Augustine.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Pirate City for the day

Brothers in piracy, Captains Okopnik and Hornigold, in the pub in St. Augustine, drinking heavily and singing ribald chanteys at the top of their lungs.