Roasting and Toasting

Here is tonight's big graphic for the Burner Happy Hour at Pinks in the E Village.

Do you dare to take the challenge?

Roasted and Toasted

Tonight will be the world premiere of The Dead Pirate Society's Roastin-N-Toastin.
This Wednesdays Happy Hour, honor and roast yer burner mates with The Dead
Pirate Society's 'Roastin and Toastin'.

Dust off yer wild tales from the ancient playa seas
Bring to light memories of friends sailin amidst the burnin man
And be prepared to share them with the evening's krewe
*Wearing yer best pirate finery is suggested*

11/19/14
Pinks
242 E 10th St (at First Ave)
Burner drink specials until 9:
$6 well drinks; $5 craft beer option;
and introducing cheap beer and wine options

Note from Nicole:
***Pirate Fiesta from fellow burners Albert and Vanessa is a small-group
interactive participation series celebrating being all Pirate-like! Your
Happy Hour committee welcomes themed ideas like this from the
community...all the better if they encourage interaction and participation.
Keep bringing 'em on...ARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roast

Charlie Hunnam Wild Hair

Check out Charlie's Wild Hair

I wonder what Vanessence would do with it?

FDA, Bronners, and Coconut Oil

The FDA tells Dr Bronners to stop writing the health benefits of coconut oil on the side of their product?!

I quote from the Dead Pirate Society Anthem.

We do it for the ones standing up in the face of adversity

For those breaking the rules paid for by corporate conspiracy

and

Beware of corporate interests selling things rotten

Act NOW, so human goodwill is not so soon forgotten!

Sources
http://www.naturalnews.com/047589_coconut_oil_Dr_Bronners_FDA_regulations.html

and

http://topinfopost.com/2014/11/11/fda-attacks-dr-bronners-prohibits-sharing-information

Derrotero and Rutters

I couldn't find a picture of this Derrotero anywhere other than "The Illustrated Pirate Diaries" by Alexander Exquemelin.  "A remarkable eyewitness account of Captain Morgan and the Buccaneers."

The Derrotero was an earlier Spanish version of what became the English Rutter, a mariner's handbook of sailing directions.  Captain and Krewe were under orders to toss weighted Rutters overboard should they come under attack.  These priceless records of coastlines were passed down from generation to generation.

Ports and landmarks were written on the wheel in the order a sailing ship would come across them.  More than one coast line could be recorded on a single Derrotero.

It looks like a wheel of chance from the boardwalk to me.

http://www.wheeloffortune.com/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/147070744056273938/

Rutter Stew - Dead Reckoning

We are working out a game for the Dead Pirate Society and the Pirate Fiesta.

 

We like the looks of the Dread Pirate game, but have yet to play it.

Source

http://www.amazon.com/Front-Porch-Classics-CL01014-Signature/dp/B000089RUP

The Shipyard Float - Guy Fawkes Bridgewater Carnival

A phenomenal float.  Ingenious.

Iris Apfel is a Pirate Queen!

Source - http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/iris-apfel-albert-maysles-documentary-new-york-film-festival/?_r=1

Image Source - http://doloresdelargotowers.blogspot.com/2012/09/hairspray-confessions.html

Breathing Life into the Dead Pirates Society

The treasure chest had been closed for a very long time.  Notice the Dead Pirate Society skull set atop the chest for pledging to the Dead Pirate Society.  Our most famous member, Robin Williams honored picture sits temporarily in the window frame in the background.

I quote from the Dead Pirate Society anthem:

The Dead Pirates Society honors unique heroes in person and absentia

We do it over drinks, dinner, and adventure

We do it for men, women, the youthful and old

In memoriam, we do it for those gone cold

https://www.google.com/search?q=robin+williams+death&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - A Psalm of Life

What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist

TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!—
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Source
http://www.bartleby.com/102/55.html

Dice Cuff Links

As the Dead Pirate Society awakens from it's deadly slumber, the body parts come to life.  

Notice the 20 sided die set upon the canvas sleeve.

These dice were sold back in 2012.

 Harvey Makin dice cufflinks are still available.

 http://www.thegiftexperience.co.uk/catalogue/dice_cufflinks/index.html

Scary Pirate Fiesta

For Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos the Pirate Fiesta rolled through Union Square.

Dead Pirates and Antique Phonographs

At the recent Shanghai Mermaid event, The Dead Pirate Society loves DJ Mac and his antique phonographs. In this pic Dead Pirate Vanessa of Vanessence Hair Salon stands on the left.  DJ Mac's postcard says "Antique Phonograph DJ Mac brings Sophisticated and Culturally Stimulating Musical Entertainment to your next event.  Featuring two period disc gramophones spinning 78's circa 1900-1929."

Notice the delicacy of the pavillon, that is the horn that amplifies the sound.  I think of them as delicate shells too.

We can't wait for the next event.  Check out http://michaelcumella.com/

The Traverse Board

The traverse board looks a lot to me like a pachinko game, or maybe even Chinese checkers.  I can also imagine Lilly Tomlin sitting at the telephone switchboard doling out little ditties.

The traverse board is used to keep track of changes in a vessel's speed or course over the period of a four-hour watch. At the end of each watch, the courses and speeds are added together, with the help of traverse tables, or by estimation, and marked in the logbook or on a chalkboard. A peg is put into a hole every half hour for the course steered, and another is inserted to reflect the approximate speed sailed. The traverse board, though used some in the sixteenth century, was more common in the seventeenth century.

Source

http://www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org/pbho-1/collection/traverse-board

Lilly Tomlin image source

http://www.biography.com/people/lily-tomlin-9508630

The Pirates Den

 

The illegal bar was run out of number 12 Gay St, a Federal-style house built in 1827—back when Gay Street was just a slender stable alley in up-and-coming Greenwich Village.

Source - https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/greenwich-village-bars/

Dead Reckoning

The problem with navigating around Burning Man is that most people use landmark navigation and dead reckoning to know their way around their own neighborhood.  Most neighborhoods or cities are laid out on a kind of angular matrix grid system.  The streets of Burning Man are laid out like a clock, all streets radiating from the center point which just so happens to be 'The Man'.  Add to this that what we may think is a fixed landmark can turn out to be a lit up art car, which can really throw off orientation.  For a person determined to get it right, to do it all on their own, they can literally end up spending the night trying to get home.


dead reckoning

the process of calculating one's position, especially at sea, by estimating the direction and distance traveled rather than by using landmarks, astronomical observations, or electronic navigation methods.

Image source

http://games.games.forum.nasha-versiya.com/quests/1740-dead-reckoning-silvermoon-isle-beta.html

Our Most Esteemed Pirate - Robin Williams

 

Additional source

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/emmy-awards-2014-billy-crystal-727167 

Robin Williams - Mercury Poisoned

The Dead Pirates Society believes that our esteemed member Robin Willams was a victim of mercury poisoning.  Signs of parkinsons, alzheimers, lewy body disease, dementia, all point to mercury poisoning.  His wife says that he complained of his meds making him crazy.  The end result is the corporate consipirators caught up with him.

I quote from the Anthem of the Dead Pirate Society:

Knowing mercury gives us diseases
Still, the FDA approves it for sneezes
Big Pharma cleans up on resulting cancers
Claiming, “We don’t have the answers.”

Beware of corporate interests selling things rotten
Act NOW, so human goodwill is not so soon forgotten!

Here lies the buried 60 Minutes Amalgam Video:

Source

http://www.mercurypoisoned.com/60.html

Sources
http://www.thenaturalrecoveryplan.com/articles/Robin-Williams-Health-Woes-Joining-the-Dots.html 

marksdailyapple.com 
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread14060.html 

http://www.mercurypoisoned.com/60.html 

Midnight Ride

Patch for a Pirate Fiesta Midnight Ride in Black Rock City.

All Aboard The Merry Pirate Fiesta

On this night some pirate friends tried out our "In The Merry Pirate Fiesta' routine. Notice the dark stained teeth in some of the pics, and a friend holding up our written lines. FUN!

Long Island Pirate Fiesta

On a recent summer day the Pirate Fiesta Krewe met with their Long Island cohorts.

Caravansary Bedouins

Figment 2014 Benefit Judson Memorial

Thanks you Randolfe Wicker for posting photos and video of
Piratina at the the Figment Benefit.

See Figment Photos for more.

Trenton Treasures

Join us Sept 19th for a city wide Treasure Hunt.

Persian Pirates Take Fire Island

 Pirate escape!!

City of Water Day Treasure Hunt

For the July 12thCity of Water Day event on Governor's Island,we created a Sacred Oath and Treasure Hunt. Over 160 participants took the challenge.  

This young pirate completed the Treasure Hunt challenge with her father. 
They smartly cover up their notes.

Time for a ride aboard the Pirate Fiesta with Piratina as Captain.

Pirate Chef Alchemy leads some little pirates in a game of Hook-N-Treasure.

 

Piratina and Vanessa pause for a photo.

Sources:

http://www.cityofwaterday.org/children-and-families/

http://www.watsonadventures.com

 

Unlocking Piratina's Treasure Chest

 Did the Treasure Chest come from the bottom of the sea?

 Or is this some kind of imaginative adventure dreamed up by Piratina?

Ronny Wasserstrom wears this hat well, don't you think?

Chaos Cooking July 1, 2014

Looks like rain?

I'm just a little black rain cloud

We had a great Hudson River Sunset.

The movie Chef takes it on the road.

Who is that masked woman, Anne Hathaway?

Pirates love rum soaked melon balls.