'I ... am going ... to eat ... NACHOOOOOOOOS!!!!!!!!' by Kara
Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 8:24 AM

Ah, the beginning of a new issue. That sammich looks nummy (I'm very hungry right now).

Almost done reading B.R. Burg's Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition (published as Sodomy and the Perception of Evil in 1983, but clearly retitled and refocused for optimum marketing opportunities). It's pretty good, albeit a bit self-congratulatory. Burg really is overly proud whenever s/he makes a huge discovery, such as 'Pirate society and modern prison society are pretty well identical sexually' (I question that) and 'Yeah, all the cabin boy jokes are true, except for the love and affection these men had for these boys and all the nice things they did for them, which means, as in ancient Rome, it was okay.'

Informative nonetheless ... it really is a decent read. Surprisingly, I'm more interested in the records of women sent to plantations and whether people in England thought those Dignified White Men needed such amusements. It's fun to see what people back home with access to wives and prostitutes thought their overseas buddies got up to. I also find it interesting that Burg spent ten pages explaining why the title references sodomy and not homosexuality (i.e., the focus is on the act and not possible relationships), and yet then spends two and a half chapters on the true emotional love many buccaneers developed for each other. Hrm. At that point, it stops being objective and gets very soppy.

I'm all scholarly 'n' stuff. Weww.

If you have been, put it away.

34 to 68 to 27 by Mich
Sunday, March 11, 2007 at 3:16 AM

That would be the temperature of a single day. Freezing, kind of nice and warm and then frigid...though sometimes it doesn't always go back to frigid.

So who remembered daylight savings time? Apparently it's happening a week earlier than usual, but it looks like my computers caught on fast enough. My phone certainly did.

In work news, opening day creeps closer and closer, which of course means that my free time is nonexistent as my hours get extended at the last moment (though of course I know this, so I don't make plans). No the new coaster will not be open on opening day, come on folks, they said late spring. I do know the date, I just don't know if it's been announced yet.

Anyways, ice cream! I think that's a strawberry cone our bizarre friend is eating there in the background. Of course he is bizarre so who knows what flavour it really is.

The Mich hungers!

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