It was a dark and stormy night....

WARNING: Do not read if you can't accept silliness in its proper context.

I know it's not Talk Like a Pirate Day anymore, but I believe I have found a series o' 10 books (for now) t' include in me floatin' bookmobile.

Oops, sorry.

The Liturgical Mysteries by Mark Schweizer. Have you read them?

Li-tur-gi-cal mys-te-ry n.

1. A religious truth that is incomprehensible to reason and knowable only through divine revelation.
2. Any one of a series of absurd novels featuring choir-director/detective Hayden Konig.

I had never heard of them until a friend (He Who Shall Remain Nameless) shared with me The Pirate Eucharist - from the fourth book, The Soprano Wore Falsettos.

I mean, who can resist this:

Arr Father in heaven, hallow’d be yar Name, yar kingdom come, yar will be done, on arth as in heaven. Give us today arr daily ration. Fergive us arr sins as we fergive those scurvy dogs who sneak up behind us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Far thine be the kingdom, and the pow’r, and the glory, farever and ever. Aye, aye.

You can even hear an excerpt HERE.

Just the fact that Schweizer has had the distinction of receiving a Dishonorable Mention in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest makes me a fan!

Being proper I shall start with the first, The Alto Wore Tweed. I'll let you know how it goes.

Happy ITLAPD t' you!

T' Dred Pirate Scott

Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day t' you!

ITLAPD be a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), o' Albany, Ore., who proclaimed Sept. 19 each year as t' day when everyone in t' world should talk like a pirate. For example, an observer o' this holiday would greet buckos not with "Hello!" but with "Ahoy, matey!" T' holiday, and its observance, sprin's from a romanticized view o' t' Golden Age o' Piracy.

At first an inside joke between two buckos, t' holiday gained exposure when Baur and Summers sent a letter about their invented holiday t' t' American syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry in 2002. Barry (himself a writer o' pirate books) liked t' idea and promoted t' day. Growin' media coverage o' t' holiday after Barry's column has ensured that this event be now celebrated internationally, and Baur and Summers now sell books and T-shirts on their website related t' t' theme.

As t' association o' pirates with peg legs, parrots, and treasure maps was popularized in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island (1883), t' book has had a significant influence on parody pirate culture.

On t' Net: http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html