Wishing ye all the best, as we sail into a new year!
Good health, good fortune, good adventures…and good mates to share it with – or as we so often say:
Fair winds, following seas & full tankards,
Capt. John Swallow & QM Seika Hellbound
Here’s a seasonal – and very Louisiana story – from Morgan City.
It seems an apt time to post the following in its entirety. Sometimes it’s how ye view things, and sometimes, it’s how others view ye. Stay safe out there, mates! An except from the writings of St. Augustuine (Aurelius Augustine, Bishop Of Hippo – now Annaba, Algeria), written between 416 & 426 AD. The City…
Avast mates, it’s been a year (some would say, “the longest ever”) and here we are, still battling the plague! There have been many changes in this time – good and bad. Mates lost, jobs set aside, struggles at all corners to survive in uncertain times…some who’ve excelled at helping their communities, stepping into the…
Congratulations to Maureen Magee – the winner of the Jamaican Pyrate Hideaway auction! Maureen can look for’ard to a full week at the private Stone Harbour Villa in Old Fort Bay, Jamaica – and her donation will go to assist some of the grass-roots organizations we support in New Orleans! Thanks to all who bid;…
Cast an eye over the treasures to be made available at the 4th annual Houma Pyrate Day (Sat. 2 Apr., 11am – 5pm). Merchants, Artisans, Musicians, Food…all in support o’ our mates at Keep Terrebonne Beautiful. More adventures to come… http://nolapyrateweek.com/merchants/houma-pyrate-day/
More fun to be had! Russ “The BIG Guy” Swanger is joining us for “Family Pyrate Day” in Old Algiers to create “CarTOONicatures” o’ ye and all yer mates! Check out his work at http://russthebigguy.com Here’s an offer ye can’t refuse…Artists, Artisans, Purveyors o’ fine goods; register NOW to join us Sat. 25 Mar., 11am…
As of this writing (Nov. 2010)…five years ago, a disaster struck New Orleans. The media said it was a natural disaster primarily affecting poor black people. On both counts, the media was wrong. In his feature–length documentary The Big Uneasy, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story of a disaster that…
