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and a promotional piece as well. Sorry about the slowness of posts lately, been busy.

I am a lobster. No, this isn’t some stupid thing where I tell you I’m really an animal blogging under the guise of a human. I’m saying I’m red. Burned. Lobster colored. My skin has been licked by the sun. And it hurts.

But it was a small price to pay for Saturday.

Saturday was a good day. It was a day I’ve been waiting for since I moved up here and heard about it. Saturday was the day that the Seafair Pirates landed at Alki beach. And the weather was fantastic.

Fuck. Yeah!

More after the cut

Just a little something to get my morning going.

I didn’t really do a Monday Catch-up last week. I was on-call for work all week and generally on-call makes me cranky, crabby, and solely interested in getting as much sleep in between calls. So apologies for the slowness of last week and apologies in advance for future weeks where I’m on-call.

In other news, yesterday was the Fourth of July. And it was boring. Now, I was already planning for boring because I was on-call and that means I really can’t make plans to go out and do anything. But I had hoped that I could stand outside and see some fireworks. Unfortunately we had typical Seattle cloud cover last night so no actual fireworks were seen. Just bursts of colorful haze in the night sky and the “boom boom BOOM crackle” of celebrations going on anyway.

Today I’m off work though, so I’m home drinking copious quantities of rum from a pineapple. Hu-fuckin-zzah!

My foul mood didn’t provide me with much interest in anything, but here are a few things that I didn’t mention last week.

Captain Jack Sparrow has been sighted. Johnny Depp has been caught by paparazzi  all decked out in his pirate attire for Pirates 4. Via PopSugar

BP is ruining our shipwrecks. In addition to fucking up the wildlife and the coastal wetlands, the BP Oil Spill is also threatening the historic shipwrecks that rest in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico. Via Huliq

Morocco was pirate central. I’ve always wanted to go to Morocco and this article on Morocco’s pirate history only fuels that fire. Via Financial Times

Image info: WhyIsTheRumGone.com’s tiki consultant sent me a picture of what he says is the Black Pearl. He’s on vacation in Hawaii and says it’s visible from his hotel room and that he was going to be taking better pictures. The one in this post is from his cell phone and is a bit… Loch Ness Monster-y

This is a good year for England – USA rivalry. There was that whole World Cup thing or whatever you call it (I’m kidding, I like soccer/football) and, even more importantly, there was the battle for the Guinness world record for Largest Pirate Gathering. The title is currently in US hands, but England looks like it’s going to be making a push for it very soon.

And, while the rest of the world may be more interested in the World Cup, allow me to point out that while both have heaving bosoms and rowdy, intoxicated men. I can pretty much assure you there will be lest hostility at a pirate gathering and NO FUCKING VUVUZELAS!!!

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