ARRG,ME MATEY!!

Arrg, Me Hearty! Avast ye Scurvy Dogs! Ye be warned, or ye'll walk the plank! Be nice to me parrot, Polly, or ye'll swab the poop deck! Arrgh, oooh me peg leg! Let's all get loaded to the gunwales!
September 19th (Tuesday) is International Talk like a Pirate day! Check out http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html my favorite is the Pirate Pick up lines!!
and read below a quick vocabulary list in which ye'll find words submitted by many pirates o'er the years, an' which comprise a loose piratical dictionary.
Ahoy: Hey!
Avast: Stop!
Aye: Yes
Black spot: to be 'placin' the black spot' be markin' someone for death.
Booty: treasure
Buccanneer: a pirate who be answerin' to no man or blasted government.
By the Powers!: an exclamation, uttered by Long John Silver in Treasure Island!
Cat o' nine tails: whip for floggin' mutineers
Corsair: a pirate who be makin' his berth in the Med-...Medi-...that sea 'tween Spain and Africa, aye!
Davy Jones' Locker: the bottom o' the sea, where the souls of dead men lie
Doubloons: pieces of gold...
Fiddlers Green: the private heaven where pirates be goin' when they die.
Furner: a ship which be yer own, not one ye steal an' plunder.
Gentlemen o' fortune: a slightly more positive term fer pirates!
Go on the account: to embark on a piratical cruise
Grog: A pirate's favorite drink.
Jack: a flag or a sailor
Jolly Roger: the skull and crossbones, the pirate flag!
Keelhaul: a truly vicious punishment where a scurvy dog be tied to a rope and dragged along the barnacle-encrusted bottom of a ship. They not be survivin' this.
Landlubber: "Land-lover," someone not used to life onboard a ship.
Lass: A woman.
Lily-livered: faint o' heart
Loaded to the Gunwales (pron. gunnels): drunk
Matey: A shipmate or a friend.
Me hearty: a friend or shipmate.
Me: My.
Pieces o' eight: pieces o' silver which can be cut into eights to be givin' small change.
Privateer: a pirate officially sanctioned by a national power
Scallywag: A bad person. A scoundrel.
Scurvy dog!: a fine insult!
Shiver me timbers!: an exclamation of surprise, to be shouted most loud.
Son of a Biscuit Eater: a derogatory term indicating a bastard son of a sailor
Sprogs: raw, untrained recruits
Squadron: a group of ten or less warships
Squiffy: a buffoon
Swaggy: a scurvy cur's ship what ye be intendin' to loot!
Swashbucklin': fightin' and carousin' on the high seas!
Sweet trade: the career of piracy
Thar: The opposite of "here."
Walk the plank: this one be bloody obvious.
Wench: a lady, although ye gents not be wantin' to use this around a lady who be stronger than ye.
Wi' a wannion: wi' a curse, or wi' a vengeance. Boldly, loudly!
Yo-ho-ho: Pirate laughter

Shiver me timbers ye Scallywags, ! I'll be seeing ye in the Fiddlers Green!

With Hurricane Season well underway.....

I overheard some lame ass at the cafeteria today state that they wanted to go Acapulco next week for vacation. It took every fiber in my being NOT to say,
" ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED, WOMAN???
In case you haven't been watching the news lately, we are starting Hurricane season and just last week Mexico was plum smack in the middle of one..... "
I bet they're the type of asshole that stares right into a solar eclipse......

And then I remembered a bit Carlos Mencia did a few years ago... Check out
Carlos Mencia-how much of a warning do you need??

This ranks a 9.0 on my Weird Shit-o-Meter

This image provided by the Direction of Penal Centers of El Salvador shows an x-ray taken of one of four prisoners at a maximum security Salvadoran prison in Zacatecoluca, 35 miles southeast of the capital of El Salvador. Four cellular telephones were found in the intestines of as many prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security prison, authorities said Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006. The discovery happened Tuesday at the prison in Zacatecoluca after suspicious prison officials took x-rays of each of the prisoners, prison spokesman Jaime Villanova said. (AP Photo/Centros Penales)

Buffalo men DO go all the way!

My apologies to my readers, this week has been insane. As I mentioned before I am the Assistant Director of The Full Monty that opened last night. Tech week (also known as Hell Week in theatre lingo) started Sunday, August 27th and continued until we opened. That meant a LOT of loooooong nights for the crew and actors. Most nights the rehearsals went until the wee hours of the morning. So I had to put my blog aside in order to remain functional at work.

Last night was sooooo stressful to me. In addition to the stress of opening- you're never sure if your audience is going to see the same show you've been seeing these past two months.- we had some major technical hurdles.Our poor Master Carpenter had a tough time. He is 17 and started out wanting to assist with our sets. But no one else volunteered to assist him so he was promoted. We were kind of disappointed that some of our former guys didn't help him. But we had to carry on with what we had.... well this poor kid started school this week and only had about 4 hours a day to get these set's built. Needless to say last night we made do without some of the things we wanted but what WAS built looked awesome!

To add to the stress, our Lighting Designer was also the Stage manager and he was pushed to get the lights done...so the light board operator and follow spot crew didn't get a rehearsal before opening. So last night we did have some technical issues- but the crew was AMAZING and really worked their asses off!!! AND the audience fell in love with our actors who didn't let the technical issues stop them from giving their all.. .

In fact.. the audience GAVE OUR GUYS A STANDING OVATION at the end of the night!!! It was sooo heartwarming it gave me tears in my eyes. I am sooo proud of my actors!!! Not only are they doing material that hasn't been seen in Sacramento before (unless you count the Broadway Tour)..but the 6 leads are average looking guys (although they are cute as hell) STRIPPING in front of a live audience!!! That alone takes (pardon the pun) balls!!
Congrats to my cast.... they deserved every laugh, applause, and heartfelt moment their audience gave them. They especially deserved the standing ovation!!
I am off to go pass out into a COMA....