ARRRRR
As you can see in this photo taken by our exclusive CrapCam,
many pirates showed up last night in Portland. I am standing next to the legendary John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur, co-founder of International Talk Like a Pirate Day. And, yes, there WERE little blue spots everywhere.
Wow, now THOSE are some pirates! Isn't that Johnny Depp down front?
Posted by: Shannon | September 25, 2004 at 05:06 AM
SQUEEEE!!
Sorry, never been "first" before. It got the best of me. ;)
Posted by: Shannon | September 25, 2004 at 05:08 AM
Second!
Posted by: Bugaboo | September 25, 2004 at 05:37 AM
I always wanted a CramCam.
Posted by: Polly | September 25, 2004 at 05:44 AM
blue man group.
Posted by: queensbee | September 25, 2004 at 05:57 AM
*sigh*
I just woke up from a dream where I met Dave (and Ridley)...
stupid low-population density Kansas
Posted by: Bismuth | September 25, 2004 at 06:33 AM
If you CramCam your CrapCam, you might get ClapCam.
Posted by: Polly | September 25, 2004 at 06:42 AM
I know how you feel, Dave. My phone takes such terrible pictures that I finally trained my service monkey to very quickly render representational sculptures from his own feces (tried it with other feces and that got me a restraining order, thanks). He's really quite good, but if you think it can be difficult to get strangers to pose for a crapcam picture with you (well, ok, you obviously don't think it's difficult, but only because it's not, for you) then you should try asking someone to pose for a representational monkey-poo sculpture.
Actually, regardless what you think, you should try asking people that. It's fun.
Posted by: Christobol | September 25, 2004 at 06:58 AM
"stupid low-population density Kansas"
I'm in California. You can have some of ours. Please, take all you want!
Posted by: Gregg | September 25, 2004 at 07:34 AM
Christobol, actually that was one of the mystery illnesses on Medical Investigation last night -- people in Miami were getting sick because an artist was mixing feces (her own and others) into the paints she used in her pictures!
ICK!
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | September 25, 2004 at 07:35 AM
((Ahem!))
Um...Do you still have that bellybutton lint shirt that I made for you the other day, Christobol?
And how have you been feeling lately?
Posted by: Polly | September 25, 2004 at 07:42 AM
Jeff - and they're blaming the artist? How can it be HER fault that they have poop-brown hair? Do they want the portrait right or do they want their health? You have to suffer for art, I hear.
Polly - of course I still have the bellybutton lint shirt you made me - haven't taken it off. I feel purple. Is that normal?
Posted by: Christobol | September 25, 2004 at 07:55 AM
Purple... Just a sec.
*looks up symptoms of E. Coli infection in PDR*
Posted by: Polly | September 25, 2004 at 08:08 AM
Purple...that's feeling blue with some red mixed in, right?
Posted by: Jessica R. | September 25, 2004 at 08:28 AM
Arrr there any actual bloglits in that pic? Inquiring weasels want to know!
Posted by: Mike Weasel | September 25, 2004 at 08:31 AM
Y'know, Kurt Cobain used to mix his own fecal matter in with paint to create his artistic pieces. This is the guy that blew his own brains out eventually and whom many teens (including my own 14 y/o goddaughter) regard as some kind of diety to be idolized. Smells like more than just teen spirit to me.
Sorry- a little off topic from pirates in Portland. Yeah Dave and Ridley!!! Way to GO!!! Whoo HOOOOO!!!!! :-)
Posted by: Dave (not Barry.. calm down) | September 25, 2004 at 08:58 AM
It looks like the time travelling hamsters are up to their old tricks again!
Posted by: tori | September 25, 2004 at 09:12 AM
Actually, I think it looks like my brohter and sister-in-law in the front row. Kinda hard to tell though. Usually, they are a little more sharply defined, but maybe they had some grog first and now they are blurry. (you never know, it might happen)
Posted by: Anne | September 25, 2004 at 09:53 AM
borrow 'yer camera?
Posted by: lilcrapper | September 25, 2004 at 10:14 AM
BG - We are moving on. Go to the M one last time & you'll see what I mean. See you there!
Posted by: Zoodle | September 25, 2004 at 10:47 AM
Of course, Little Blue Spots Everywhere wbagnfarb. Or a 60's-style psych song.
Posted by: Corn | September 25, 2004 at 10:56 AM
It's the Blue Meanies!!
Posted by: Lmd33 | September 25, 2004 at 10:56 AM
Bismuth-where in Kansas? I grew up in extremely high density populated Western Kansas, so I feel your pain.
And now I live in the densly populated central Illinois region. I think I musta done something wrong in a former life.
Posted by: Angie | September 25, 2004 at 11:21 AM
More pictures of elle!
Posted by: elle's fan club | September 25, 2004 at 11:44 AM
what's with the guy at the extreme right of the pic? looks like he had his face obliterated by a cannonball.
is this a book critic?
Posted by: sj | September 25, 2004 at 12:16 PM
ARRR:
I notice that the afore-mentioned formal eyepatches are conspicuously absent. 40 lashes, ye scurvies.
Posted by: triller | September 25, 2004 at 01:23 PM
The photo looks like it was taken circa 1724.
Posted by: punky brewster | September 25, 2004 at 02:45 PM
I'm confused, it must be the picture,
but it looks to me like...
A cross between: pirates, geeks, a history buff,
DAVE, and 4 ppl who don't know where they are.
But that's just me 8>
Posted by: Psycho_Joe | September 25, 2004 at 04:49 PM
Hey, what ever happened to the Blue Man Group? Or flash mobs?
Posted by: Chris Cypser | September 26, 2004 at 01:36 PM
People, people,people-- please, if you go to a signing, bring Pirate gear for dave and Ridley. It's terrible to see them looking so out of place in a photo!
Posted by: teachernb8 | September 26, 2004 at 02:26 PM
Angie - my apologies for the tardiness of this reply. At the time I wrote my previous comment, I lived in Lawrence, attending KU. I have since moved on to more eastern climes and a less basketball-oriented place.
Posted by: Bismuth | November 23, 2005 at 11:39 PM