Tag: Pirates

I always loved Treasure Island as a child. Resembling a Victorian techno-thriller, readers were treated with songs, deception, pitched battles, lost treasure and heroism. The book’s primary villain, Long John Silver, also represented one of its most original and creative characters. Jim was the plucky cabin boy, Captain Smollet skippered the ship, and Doctor Livesay […]

To me, Pirate Parenting consisted of spying a pirate outfit in the Halloween section of Wal-Mart right after having read Dave Barry’s column on Talk Like a Pirate Day, picking it up on a whim, and making a pirate feast for dinner that night. To John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur and Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summers, the […]

As we conclude Pirate Week, it is only fitting that we present six random peglegs. Peter Stuyvesant – The man who put the Stuy in Bed-Stuy stomped around New Amsterdam until 1664 when it was ceded to England and renamed New York.  The football team at Stuyvesant High is called the Peglegs, but Stuy is […]

Getting tired of the whole steampunk scene?  Getting warmed up to the whole talking like a pirate thing?  Ready to try out a new genre?  Well, my friend, the fates have arranged upcoming reading material just for you.  Just as GeekDad was making preparations for Pirate Week, author Jeff VanderMeer brought news of Fast Ships, […]

Friday we’re hosting our Kids Classic Bookclub meeting, and we’ll be discussing Richard Hughes’ A High Wind in Jamaica , a wry tale of a group of children kidnapped by pirates in the early 1800s. Before you rush out to get a copy for your child, however, I should disclose that although I remember loving […]

It’s Pirate Week here at GeekDad, an extended observance of all things piratical in anticipation of Friday’s Talk Like a Pirate Day. Thus, as the blog’s quasi-official music guy, I felt the need to direct our wayward readers toward some particularly appropriate tunes. At this summer’s Nerdapalooza festival in Orlando, I saw a great many […]

It’s all Robert Louis Stevenson’s fault. Treasure Island‘s popularity spawned a genre of pirate novels, and those novels were made into pirates movies, which gave rise to comic books and Halloween costumes. Then Disney went and adapted one of their amusement park rides into a movie, and the result was actually good. So call it […]

My kids never got into Pokémon or other card sets, but a few years back I discovered the Pirate Constructible Strategy  Game cards from WizKids and picked up a few sets for them to try. The first thing I liked about it was that fans of the game would make their own playing surfaces — […]

This past weekend, it rained nearly non-stop in our area on both Saturday and Sunday.  To pass some time, a couple of the kids and I worked on making our own pirate treasure maps (but how we did it is a post for later this Pirate Week).  In the process, we each started building the […]