Arrrr!

September 19 is "Talk like a pirate day" so it's time to practice some buccaneer banter:
BOB: Avast, me beauty.
MARY: Avast, Bob. Is that a yardarm in your doubloons, or are you just glad to see me?
BOB: You are giving me the desire to haul some keel.
MARY: Arrrrr.

Report from Burning Man

This in from my dear (70-something) friend Bill -- who took me on my first-ever sail (in 1987-ish?)-- after I asked what he thought about Burning Man this year ;-)

"One thing I have learned about naked bodies, they look best if you are young ... I did see a guy with three penises. Somehow he glued one onto each side of his own. It was pretty funny. Lots of topless girls and body painted people.The best was in the middle of a blinding sandstorm (we had two, one lasted 8 hours).There was a knock on our RV door, and standing outside was a stark naked 20-something black girl clad only in goggles and a facemask, holding a bottle of wine, and asking to borrow a corkscrew. That's something you just don't see every day ..."

'woop! woop! woop! woop!'

"Here, in the tradition popularized by George Plimpton, is participatory sportswriting at its finest and most far-out. Editor Zachary Michael Jack fields a dream team of today’s best sports journalists, hotshots, and rising stars in search of the game behind the game."

'Featuring guess who???!!! :-D

This book comes out Nov. 1. Order here or at your local bookstore.