Arr!

[Alicia Henn]

Yes, we're coming up to that time of year again, folks. Now that this
year's Nebulas are history and the Hugo voting is in our past, we're
rapidly approaching my favorite holiday and yours -
Talk Like a Pirate Day!

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

September's R-SPEC meeting will be devoted to a round-table discussion
of all things piratical from rummy parrots to Johnny Depp to
wikileaks. So come t' t' meetin' ya' scurfy dogs!

Alicia

[Eric Scoles]

Here's a start  to get into the SpecLit pirate mo[o]de, from the 2009-11-26 escape pod: "Pirate Solutions" 

http://escapepod.org/2009/11/26/ep226-pirate-solutions/

To para a phrase, I liked a lot of things about this story, but I didn't like the story very much. 

Doctorow's latest (I think), another YA novel called _For the Win_, sounds like it might also be appropriate mode music: A group of geographically distributed kids take over a virtual realm from its evil masters (Coca Cola, as it happens). 

And last but not least, Terry Gilliam's shot across the cinematic bows of the western world, "The Crimson Permanent Assurance".

Part 1: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecFBcpY9NHI&feature=related

Part 2: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNlYBNTCBG8&feature=related

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