Avast, me hearties! Caught a matinée of Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest with me mateys fosteronfilm and Patrick yesterday. Blimey, but Bill Nighy as CGI tentacle Cap’n Davy Jones was absolutely amazin’, shivered me timbers he did, aye. A little darker than t’original, ahrrr, and with a decided The Empire Strikes Back feel’t. Nevertheless, the look of t’were enough to boonswaggle me deadlights. Although now I got a powerful urge t’spout pirate-isms and swing me a cutlass. Ahrrr.
Me bucko, arkhamrefugee, has petitioned me t’display pirate colors for Dragon*Con, which appeals t’this landlubber. But I needs to pillage me t’proper garb fer the occasion. Ahrr, a pox on me empty coffers. I wonder if t’editors would consider paying me in doubloons.
Writing Stuff
Yo-ho-ho! “The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death” in Fantasy Magazine #1 received t’Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty-third Annual Collection!
Hey, congrats on the HM! Er, and arrgh and stuff.
Thankee, ahrr!
You’re a looney.
Aye, ye sea dog! what be yer point?
That ye be more daft than a barnical on a barn door and there be a painful shortage of rum and wenches in yer galley, yar!
Addled blaggard! Barnicals ne’er sprout on barns! Weigh anchor and break out the grog. T’idn’t I say I were mannin’ t’crow’s nest for saucy wenches? Ahrr.
Ahrrrr! I’m hopin’ ta see it tomorrow. I can’t wait! I was away camping when it came out. Ahrrrr!
Ahoy! Fair winds t’see it on t’morrow.
So, this pirate stuff definitely seems to be catching 🙂
Congrats on the Honorable Mention. That’s awesome.
Thank ye! Aye, t’was much skipping and t’squeeing at t’news. (Although neither behaviors are particularly piratical, then again . . .)
Make anyone who so much as suggests that kind of behaviour is not piratical walk the plank, and then you’ll have a clean field 😉
Congratulations on the mention! That’s so awesome!
More rum! Where’d all the rum go?
Thankee, matey! I be raisin’ me mug o’grog t’ye as well!
Whee for the honorable mention!!!!! 😀
Thankee!
Arrh, Matey! Here’s to t’Honorable Wenches – er, Mentions! Arrh, I t’ink I had too much rum. I go lie down now. (Burp!)
Thankee kindly, matey. Even if’n ye be a lubber t’can’t hold yer grog! (But then, neither can I. *hic*)