According to E!, Halle’s “pregnant, not a pirate.” Can’t you be both?
Halle Berry’s pirate (temporary) tattoo
Avast, Key West!
This past week, while I was in Key West studying the literature of the future, I couldn’t help but search out the Caribbean pirates of the past.
I think they sell other costumes here, but why bother?
I wanted to try this on so badly!
I think they really got my look down, don't you?
More to come, including my trip on the schooner Appledore and your Hot Pirate of the Month!
Real-Life Pirate Princess: Lucy Bellwood Draws Comics of the Sea
Oregon tall ship sailor Lucy Bellwood tells her tales with comic book artistry.
I was stunned by the talent shown in Baggywrinkles, a webcomic from real-life pirate princess Lucy Bellwood, who uses her comics to spin yarns about her time sailing on Portland’s Lady Washington.
Blackbeard Lives! (His cannon, at least)
Blackbeard’s Cannon Salvaged – The Daily Beast.
The Queen Anne’s Revenge just keeps giving us gifts from beyond the grave. Although it’s rusty now, this 2,000 pound cannon might have threatened the biggest British man o’ war–although from what I’ve read, Blackbeard much preferred intimidation tactics over out-and-out dogfights (thus the beard!)
In the crow’s nest
Sacramento’s News10 reporter Kate gets in on the Pirate Princess act aboard the ship Hawaiian Chieftan, now docked in the harbor. Look at the bodice-ripper hair!
Pirates of the Delaware
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1
Philly, yer not safe! Pirates of the Delaware staged an epic sea power battle today as part o’ the Seaport Fest and ITLAPD.
Check out super-cute pirate Chris Simmons of the tall ship Gazela (aka Captain Black Dread. I wonder if that’s his real hair?)
Yaaaarrrr!
Yaarrr, it be here at last! International Talk Like A Pirate Day be sailin’ in on the mornin’ tide, and like a good Pirate Princess, I’m swillin’ a jigger o’ rum to celebrate! And I’m dustin’ off the rip-roarinest pirate chanty o’ all time, “The Last Saskatchewan Pirate,” by those Canadian buccaneers, The Arrogant Worms. No landlubber boards me vessel without knowin’ it.
I’ve also plundered this sing-a-long o’ that pirate chestnut “Drunken Sailor” courtesy o’ me mateys at Talk Like A Pirate Official Headquarters. (Don’t ye be worryin’, it’ll be gettin’ catchier as it rolls on!)
Baking with the Captain
As promised, I tried out this recipe for Pirate Bread Pudding this past weekend (I could’ve waited until the 19th, but why?) I cut it in half, mostly because (gasp!) the rest of my household aren’t as rum-crazy as I am. Plus 2 cups of half-and-half is a lot if you only have one of those little half-pints lying around. I ended up doing a cup and a half of milk, and half a cup of half and half (that sentence is mind-boggling.) I used golden raisins; soaked in rum, of course, they’re delicious by themselves.
Coming out of the oven.
I also halved the sauce, which turned out super-thick and kind of grainy, even with only half a cup of butter, hmmm. All in all, whiskey plus rum plus raisins = pure pirate comfort food.
The ramekin was just for serving; I thought it looked cute.
All the best desserts are soaked in rum
I haven’t yet had a chance to try this recipe for Pirate Bread Pudding yet, but I will as soon as I get my hands on some pineapples, raisins, whiskey and of course, rum (whiskey and rum? It’s a pirate’s dream!)
More definitive proof it’s good to be a pirate
Ah, the pirate life: Tobacco, ale —
A new excavation of a hideout in Belize–a Pirate Fortress of Solitude called the Barcadares-proves pirates lived elegantly when not plundering. Except for their rum–that they drank straight from the bottle.
Princess of Pirates 