Yarr, ye scurvy dogs sailin' on the Flying Dutchman thread — it's the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, On Stranger Tides.
Hang on there, though : On Stranger Tides is a fantastic novel by Tim Powers, my favoritest pirate/zombie story of all time. What abominations will Disney be performing to warp a mad, wild standalone novel that doesn't have any of the characters of the franchise into a continuation? Powers approves, at least, although that may mean he's just overjoyed to be about to be rolling in money.
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Last Saturday was International Talk Like a Pirate Day and Minnow and I got into the spirit of the day by reading the only toddler-appropriate pirate book I know:
Normally, I can't be motivated to read economics—no offense, economists, but I think the economics part of my brain got left behind on one of my many moves around the country, and it was locked in to one particular latitude and longitude anyway—but maybe adding a little swashbuckling
At first you would not think that pirates would try to
establish a base
in Utah. There are not a lot of coves or bays there.
Even so, it is the first State to have an official pirate
base. They have a logo. They are even circulating a