Prepare to go about!
book promotion, self promotionUpdate! If you live in Chicago, me shipmate Carolyn Crimi will be at Magic Tree Bookstore in Oak Park, 1:00 for a Talk Like A Pirate Day book signing! You can walk the plank and get a free tattoo!
Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates is…
League
UncategorizedThree miles—roughly the distance a person can walk in an hour.
As the sea-shanty Spanish Ladies tells it:
We'll rant and we'll roar, like true British sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas
Until we reach soundings in the…
Buccaneer
UncategorizedA pirate. The earliest pirates of the Caribbean were newly-arrived French woodsmen who preserved meat by curing it slowly over a smoky fire so it would last a long time (this was before refrigerators). In the native Carib dialect, boucan was…
Grog
self promotionRum diluted with water. On long voyages, sailors might contract scurvy, a disease caused by a lack of Vitamin C. Ship's doctors eventually realized there is lots of Vitamin C in lemons, so they'd make sure everybody drank their lemon juice by…
Jolly Roger
self promotionThe black pirate flag with skull & crossed bones. The earliest pirates—French filibustiers—simply hoisted a red flag to announce their piratical intentions. It's not hard to imagine one of the crew darkly describing the flag as "un…
The return of the dread Salty Carrot
book promotion, self promotionAlphabet Trail and Tales in Pittsburgh's Frick Park was a blast yesterday—the Salty Carrot was dragged out of drydock and assembled at the big Blue Slide pavilion. We had glorious weather, too. We read Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates…
Big doings
book promotion, self promotionThis evening is the grand opening of Graffiti Gallery—that's in the beautiful Transit Building, Oil City, where I have a studio—from 6:00 - 9:00. Come join us!
Tomorrow morning I'll be performing at Alphabet Trail & Tales in Frick…
Crazed Chicken Pirates in Pittsburgh
self promotionCome and join me aboard the dread Salty Carrot! I'll be at Alphabet Trail & Tales Saturday morning, September 11th in Frick Park—that's in Pittsburgh, Pa. I'll be reading Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates and painting and leading…