Myth Happens

A lot of this post is catch-up. But with pictures!

1. I missed International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Have a picture of Robert Newton and some seafaring songs.

The Imagined Village, "Mermaid"

Neptune he has favored us with fair and lively breeze
Like a thing endowed with life she bounds across the seas
Then we're off to Tibert's Bay upon some drunken sprees
To drink some rum and raise some hell and lose our dignity

The Bills, "Bamfield's John Vanden" (historically attested)

When the listing wrecks needed us the most
We slipped past death on the graveyard coast
But the ocean remembers, so we never did boast

Peter Bellamy, "Anchor Song (Live on Folk 80)"

Oh, we're bound to Mother Carey where she feeds her chicks at sea!



2. shweta_narayan and elsmi were in town this past week! Below the cut please find photographic evidence in the form of Mippo. Also Shweta. Elsmi appears in none of these pictures because the first two were taken before we met up with him at dinner and the last two were taken by him because my phone is kind of terrible.

( The hippopotamus was no ignoramus. )

3. If you have not already seen Ursula Vernon's Harry Potter fic and its accompanying illustration, there you go.

In other news, worst insomnia since 2006 or 2007. Trying to remember what I did yesterday, I think the answer is mostly laundry, work, and I showed derspatchel The Cruel Sea (1953), from which he correctly recognized my young Denholm Elliott icon. We have surprise plans for dinner at Lobsta Land with audioboy and Beckie tonight, which should be fun. Anything gets me more sea, I approve of.