Hats off to our special pal Arthur (aka “Sexybeast”) just uploaded his video of PiratePalooza™ 2008 and OH ChowderMama is it a doozy!
Featuring samples of new music by Captain Dan and his Scurvy Crew (click here for more on Captain Dan’s music) and an eight minute runtime, you’re bound to see a few of your favorite pirate pals scrapin’ around the James Joyce Irish Pub. Try to name as many as you can!!
UPDATE!!
The files are beginning to flow in now. Keep an eye tuned to this site for even more photos and videos as they arrive. Check out the ultra-keen slideshow over on our Flickr pool or else browse the pool manually. Thanks go to all of you Photo Pirates for your wonderful shots from this year’s PiratePalooza™ – you’ve made us look far better than we actually do in real life!! Now we can relive the fun all over again and share the experience with those who were unable to attend.
Did you snap a photo or two at this year’s PiratePalooza™??
Perhaps a bit of video for YouTube?
If so, we’d love to see your shots… send us a link! Those photographers among you who are already members of our Flickr Group called “PiratePalooza” are encouraged to upload your photos and add them to the group as soon as the effects of Saturday night’s Palooza wear off.
We’ve already lowered our skiff to the chop below and the men are climbing aboard… in less than two hours the city of Decatarrrr shall fall beneath our boots and steel and unending thirst for blood and rum. Beware lubbers, the PiratePalooza is UPON YOU, even now.
Remember, the Palooza Pubcrawl goes through Decatarrr again this year, but it ends at the James Joyce in Avondale Estates this time. If you happen to drop in upon the Comers over at The Grange do buy a drink, give ‘em our best then beat it quick out to Avondale for the Palooza!!
Hello new person with a real (or nearly real) sword. Here’s a little game that we developed for your idiot-enriched world. It’s called “peace binding” or “peace bonding” or “peace bounding” or “tying your fracking sword to your fracking belt so that you won’t do something fracking Darwinian and spoil our fricking-fracking fun”.
This is the safety policy of PiratePalooza, modeled after the rules of Anime Los Angeles. By attending this event you are bound to this agreement.
PiratePalooza believes that most humans are idiots and have survived up to this point in their lives by some insane miracle of chemistry, upbringing, charm and/or luck, and that you could snap at any moment…. which is why Public Safety outweighs any other consideration and it is with this in mind that these policies have been formed.
All real and replica (ie, realistic in appearance) edged weapons including swords and knives must be peace-bound during PiratePalooza. This means that these items will be secured to your belt or to your clothing using locking plastic strips often referred to as “wire ties”. Afterward, in the privacy of your own cabin, you may remove these wire ties using a pair of scissors or snipping pliers.
No real or replica weapons may be drawn from a scabbard or sheath at any point during PiratePalooza unless part of an approved performance. No real or realistic weapons may be brandished or wielded in a public area. Keep your sword on your hip. Keep your flintlock in its bucket or tucked into your belt.
We ask you to exercise good judgement.
If your weapon is not peace-bound, we will gladly perform the service for you at no cost. Failure to submit to peace-tying is grounds for immediate expulsion from the bar and possible summons of local police. Don’t think that we won’t wave to you like cold-hearted pirates as officers of the law escort you to your rendezvous with fate.
Note:
Dealers who sell weapons must secure each item at the point of sale and provide each customer with a printed copy of these rules.
A Corporate Raider what attends the Palooza every year contacted us this afternoon via rPhone™ to advise the Captain that the DecaturMetro blog has announced that there will be a “Women for Obama” rally in Decatur Square at 12pm tomorrow afternoon, meaning that creativity and ingenuity will be required in locating berths for your autocarriage before the 2pm start of the PiratePalooza™ pubcrawl. However, if you cast your eye about you’ll spy that there be several parking decks around the square and two hours is an awful lot of time to scream and stamp and shout and cheer (what I’ll be doing when I get me some beer). We would apologize for this inconvenient collision of popular real-life memes, but if your stupid planet had acquiesced to Captain Drew’s offer of world domination you wouldn’t be forced to compete with these lassies for parking space. ;)
Our old pal Captain Dan and his scurvy crew have released 3 new tracks today to celebrate the pending debut of their new album “From the Seas to the Streets” under the Nonexistent Recordings label. Timed to coincide with your planet’s so-called “International Talk Like a Pirate Day“, this pre-release of album tracks marks the third and highly anticipated work from a pirate hip hop artist that has been described as “drunk”, “pirate”, “guy over there” and “behind the rum barrell doing something with the crew’s pig”. If you lubbers don’t be aware of Captain Dan, then you be missing out on perhaps the most important influence on modern piracy since Paris Hilton stopped wearing bloomers and started riding Continue Reading
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