Comments | tesseract_5: pirate-mania...

tesseract_5

pirate-mania...

Jul 06, 2006 10:13

...is gearing up for tomorrow, obviously, with the release of PotC II, Dead Man's Chest. There were HUGE big building-side size posters of Johnny Depp's piratey visage up in LA when we went through there this past holiday weekend ( Read more... )

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Comments 7

_riz July 6 2006, 19:34:04 UTC

Pirateology!! Awesome! I love those books. I want to work for that publisher so bad but they won't have me. :\

tesseract_5 July 7 2006, 07:11:00 UTC

awe! They do great books. ;-) Their ability to lure kids in, and make them pester their parents for the books is unrivaled.

bawdy_letters July 6 2006, 21:55:45 UTC

Disraeli is awesome! :D

tesseract_5 July 7 2006, 07:12:13 UTC

I'd never studied about him before, so it was a surprise to read that he was not only a dandy, but a bawdy writer, and a Jew who called himself nominally a Christian. ;-)

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tesseract_5 July 7 2006, 07:12:31 UTC

have fun... I expect a report ;-)

whitealchemist July 7 2006, 11:02:09 UTC

Ah, see, and here I thought I was just imagining the pirate-mania when I went shopping for fomal wear jewellery in Birmingham and everything I saw that was remotely Victorian also had bloody shells and scrap metal and... and barnacles strung to it. Gee, thanks PotC.

*cheers Disraeli, who at least at the nerve to pull it off*

tesseract_5 July 10 2006, 04:03:29 UTC

hee hee, barnacles! crazy

Disraeli seems to have been quiet the individual