Plus, after all the overabundance of Depp since then, it's nice to be reminded just how hilariouusly, wonderully surprising this whole insane movie was.
Dangit, summer always makes me want to write pirate stories. Good thing I've got a perpetual piratical work in progress around. I hope I never finish it.
More Like "Blarrrgh"
Sep. 19th, 2011 11:41 pmAt least I got to listen to my Pirate Playlist while I did all that driving. Nothing like singing along to the Real McKenzies’ “Cross the Ocean” to lift the spirits
Plus, my aunt sent me a jar of honey from her beehives—damn good news, since the Annual Hayfever Apocalypse is in full swing and Lemon Zinger with honey is the perfect way to fix that—and a small package of appropriate cupcake decorations to complement Mom's card:

Is anyone else confused by the fake beard on the parrot in that card? Everything else is fair enough by me, but why the beard?
Oh, and the pumpkins I was despairing over have started to, uh, pumpkinize. They’d better grow fast if they want to get ripe before the mid-October freak blizzard, but at least I don’t fail completely at pumpkin!
Probably with a bit more sleep and a round or two of Super Luigi Galaxy, things’ll be better. And if not, I’m sure another cupcake will do it.
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( Alphabet Of Artists With A Significant Presence On The Giant Bloated Favorites List )
( My Personal One-to-Three-Hit Wonders )
( Songs That Make People Say 'You Have THAT?' )
( Soundtracks )
And now, two playlists that were specifically asked after:
( The Pirate Playlist )
( NERRRRRD )
Well! That was fun! This isn’t all of it, of course, but if I keep going I’ll be here forever, and I’ll never get anything done.
Howbout y’all? What music do you like? See anything you’re a big old fan of?
Blarrrg, Matey!
Sep. 19th, 2009 12:37 pmIt’s makin’ it a might hard to swash and buckle, so I’ll just be here in me hammock down below, sneezin’ enough to make me own bilgewater.
Oh, and in true pirate fashion, I’m going to be bad and not even bother catching up with the days I missed on my f-list! If anything earth-shaking has happened—you dug up a giant chest of ill-gotten gold and jewels,* or you captured a merchant vessel, or you got eaten by a kraken—you’ll have to let me know.
Arr, Scurvily,
Bloody Rose McCoy
*Although frankly I’d trade it all for a chest of old-school Nyquil.
The World: It Is Weird
Apr. 13th, 2009 11:45 pmI suck at watching real news, because the reporters are always straightfaced about this totally bonkers stuff happening in the world. Some things are so loony it’s hard to believe them, and today was like a highlight reel. Three of the topics focused on were:
-Pirates. Unfortunately, these are neither the fun swaggering grog-swilling pirates of story nor the kind that don’t have to watch five minutes of unskippable FBI guilt trips at the beginnings of legit DVDs telling you that you’re a scummy thief, because the pirates have pirated copies.* These are the kind of pirates who steal actual money and have now vowed they will engage in more murder and mayhem because a few of them got killed. Turns out holding a gun to a hostage’s head is not the best way to keep snipers off of you.
- Redshirts. Apparently, law enforcement officers in Thailand are called “redshirts.” Thai officials keep sending in more redshirts to try to keep the peace during some riots. And, yes, they go the way of all redshirts. I may have cried out, “My god, it’s TRUE!” at some point.
-Footage of Obama during the White House Easter Egg Roll. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a POTUS frolic before. I didn’t even know that was a verb you could actually do, but dude was all, “WHEE! Easter eggs!”
*This always seemed a little strange to me. I know they can’t very well stick these warnings on the bootlegs, but as far as I’m concerned five minutes of shame-on-you PSAs are a deterrent to buying legit items, since you get punished for it. You can get right to the movie with a bootleg.
Advent Calendar ~ Day 5!
Dec. 5th, 2008 06:37 pm5. Do you like eggnog?
Yes, but as so many people say, I can’t have much of it at once. I know of only one person who will polish off glass after glass, and that is my brother.
He could do this from the time he was three. Hell, he’d go around and finish off other people’s eggnog. Lots of other people’s! Other people who were grown-ups, and who had the grown-up eggnog. Which we realized when he couldn’t stop giggling into his yams at dinner.
My brother’s past: not actually suitable for minors.
“Eggnog” was also, for reasons that escape me at the moment, one of our budgie’s nicknames. Sometimes this got changed to “Nogz” or “Noggors.” We are a weird family.
Incidentally, what the hell is “nog,” anyway? That we have to modify it with “egg” suggests that nog does not necessarily have to contain eggs, but I have never heard of any other kind of nog. Can other things be nogged? Can you have, say, rhubarb nog, or chicken broth nog, or cottage cheese nog? God, I hope not.
ETA: Avast and holy toledo, you guys, Wikipedia sez the word eggnog may be a shortening of "eggs-and-grog"! Do you know what this means? PIRATE CHRISTMAS DRINK!
Arr! 'Tis A Cruel Sea
Sep. 19th, 2008 09:34 pmNational POW/MIA Recognition Day
Saint Gennaro Feast Day
Bloody Rose McCoy
Hit Parade
Sep. 16th, 2008 03:18 pmMayflower Day
Women's Friendship Day
UN International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
Anniversary - General Motors (100 years)
Anniversary - Old Ironsides Saved by Poem
Cherokee Strip Day (Ok)
Independence Day (Mexico)
Independence Day (Papua New Guinea)
Some of y’all know this already, but my birthday is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. The day reserved for celebrating my inclusion in this life is now also a cheap silly holiday in which people dress in silly costume and talk like a cultural icon that has been highly bastardized from its original, brutish source into a bright cheery symbol of fun.
I am totally all for this. I love me some pirates. Before this happened my birthday was a boring one, with the only historical connections being that at some point on a September 19 a pair of hicks got probed by space aliens. So this is an improvement.
Not that nothing has ever happened to me on my birthday! Sure, I quit having birthday parties early on because I realized they weren’t actually very fun, and sure my Super Sweet Sixteen was spent passed out on the couch with a heavy cold, but sometimes stuff just happens. Like the time my friend gave me a pair of little froggies in a bowl for my ninth birthday—we had those little dudes for years. Or my fifteenth birthday, which featured the lecture Girls! Don’t Have Sex Or You Will Give Birth To Horrible Cyclops Babies.* And there was the Indian Ocean hike on my twenty-second.**
This year, I am planning to be either at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, or, if not there specifically, then at least somewhere awesome in Southern California, since tomorrow we leave to take my little sister to school. So if I’m not around Friday, I suggest you hoist a cup of grog and say a yo-ho for me anyway, because it’s always nice to be remembered.
*Replete with visual aid: a jar of formaldehyde hosting an illustrative cycloptic lamb head. For the record, I believe the lecture was ostensibly on poisonous plants.
Other weird lectures I have heard: Vegetables Are Delicious And Ganesh Invented The Internet; I Am A Magic Face-Reader And So Can You!; Rainbows And Worms Are Interconnected Because Of Quantum; and Squatting: The Only Proper Way To Poop.
**This was also the day on which I observed the most enthusiasm I have ever seen for birthday cake, which was exhibited by two grown men. The academic directors would buy each student a birthday cake—those guys were so sweet—and in this case they were very, very excited to give it to me because it happened to be Ramadan, and the moment evening prayer was over they were in my room going, “We have a surprise for you down in the kitchen! YOU SHOULD GO TAKE A LOOK AT IT RIGHT NOW!”
Scented Skulls?
Feb. 17th, 2008 07:00 pmNational PTA Founders' Day
World Human Spirit Day
I need to get me a Radio Flyer wagon or something.
The College Experience ~ Spring '07
Jun. 13th, 2007 03:07 pmCreating With Your Heart Day
Saint Anthony of Padua Feast Day
Birthday - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (actresses)
- The average life span of a house rabbit is 10-12 years. (I knew this, but now I have learned it.)
- In comic art a good way to keep effect lines focused is to stick a tack at the focal point and rotate the straight edge around it.
- Superman originally couldn’t fly; he would jump around like a flea. I had wondered about that because of the “able to leap tall buildings” bit, which seemed a little redundant if you could go sailing off through the ionosphere whenever you wanted to.
- Subway sandwiches actually aren’t bad.
- Budgies glow in the dark.
- In linguistic subgrouping, shared innovation shows a closer relationship between languages than shared retention.
- Wraparound pants are the coolest pants in the world. And they can help you with your worldbuilding projects!
- There are two styles for wedging clay: the Western, also called “ramshead,” and the Eastern, or “chrysanthemum.” The second terms refer to the shapes the clay takes on.
- I use “Fucking” as both an honorific and as a sign of derision. For examples, I give you: Sigourney Fucking Weaver versus Paris Fucking Hilton.
- Patrick Fucking Stewart does the voice of Adventure in The Pagemaster, one of my favorite animated movies. This reinforces my theory that classically trained actors are filthy filthy whores. They’ll take any paycheck you offer them. And that’s awesome.
- People interpret the word “diet” to mean “please offer me a disapproving opinion without noticing any of the other words in the sentence.”
- Cobalt can undergo reversible oxygenation, meaning that it can work as a metalloprotein. Dweijidŕ, Ghiltrol, say hello to your blue blood.
- There is one thing I can do better left-handed: I can pull clay into long, thin strips. I always wind up with little knobs and thin bits when I do it right-handed. Presumably this means I can also milk a cow better, since the motion’s almost identical, but we will have to study that further before we know for sure.
- Originally, the word for apron was napron, but people saying a napron eventually started hearing it as an apron.
- Linguists have actually discussed whether languages have “masculine” or “feminine” characteristics (I’m looking at you, Otto Jesperson).
- The answer to the question “If I decide to make a career out of standing on rubber balls balancing tea trays and vases on my nose while swinging a hula hoop on my hips, what is my first step?” is: Wuqiao Acrobatics School.
- You know you’re not cut out to watch porn when your first thought after the movie ends is, “Hey, that subplot with the dirty maid and the guy in the cravat and enormous platforms didn’t go anywhere.”
- You should definitely make sure to hug your rabbit before you leave after spring break, because you’ll feel slightly better about it when she dies before you get back for summer vacation.
- Either I really do have Jubilee’s mutant power of blowing up electronics, or every iPod in the Universe is a piece of shit.
- It is actually possible to upstage Johnny Depp as a pirate.
- It takes a month to get some psychiatrists to do paperwork.
- Fraggle Rock stands the test of time. Rugrats doesn’t.
It WAS The Best Wedding Ever
May. 27th, 2007 03:05 pmPentecost (Orthodox)
Whitsunday (Christian)
Anniversary - Cellophane Tape
Birthday - Vincent Price (actor)
Birthday - Wild Bill Hickock (frontiersman)
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Though for the record, over on my side of the theater we didn't expect Tommy McOrphanboy to get rescued. Seemed like a better way to open the movie.
Had I Only Known
May. 25th, 2007 03:47 amNational Tap Dance Day
Poetry Day (Fla)
African Freedom Day (Parts of Africa)
Independence Day (Jordan)
Last Piratical Hurrah, Two Days Late
Sep. 21st, 2006 01:58 amBrazen I stole from one of my own characters. He won't mind. I'll sink his ship if he objects.
I can DO it, too. I control his universe! HAHAHAHAHA!
More Nautical Nonsense
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