Argh! Pirates!!

Today is Pirate Friday. You may not have known this if, perhaps, you were living under a rock for the last few weeks and/or months, coccooned in granite-y goodness from any entertainment news or advertisements (say it like the Brits do "adVERTisments," it's more fun). But it is! Argh! Avast, yee scurvy dogs! So, you're wondering how to celebrate such wonderment as Pirate Friday. It's actually quite simple, with many wise, wonderful and walrus-y options.

1. Go see "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." Admit it, you were going to see it anyway. You looove Johnny Depp (or Orlando Bloom. Or Keira Knightley, although not in her current "skin and bones" look, which I can only imagine is not anorexia but rather her hommage to pirate chic; she just got the whole "crossbones" thing confused.)
2. Write a pirate story!! And not just any pirate story, mind you, but the missing crab-eaten bits from the new The Pirates! book. For inspiration, perhaps you'd care to party with some pirates? You can!! (although not until July 11th.) The Pirate Captain himself is now featured on my blogroll.
3. Listen to pirates!! Go on, buy a CD! If you're in the neighborhood of Connecticut (traditional home of many a fine pirate), go to a CD release party TONIGHT! July 7th, at the Carriage House Arts Center in Norwalk. Mmmm... rickets.
4. Watch a clip from the Today Show. Chose "Pirate Chic You Can Wear", and marvel at InStyle magazine's ability to make pirate chic look cheap, while telling people to spend hundreds of dollars on skull-and-crossbones-decorated booty. Now that's plundering the high seas!
5. Set sail and shoot someone with a cannon.

You need more? What am I, your cabin boy? Go find them yourself!