Tag: jack sparrow
Manifesto XV: Stand Up or Get In Line
by otaking on Sep.30, 2009, under Manifesto
Irony? What's that? This is so educational!
I’m part of the tail end of the generation labeled Gen X, which was really the first generation in recent memory to adopt irony as a stance. In my early twenties I would routinely be told by people that I was the most sarcastic person they’d ever met. Even now my humor sometimes lapses into well-timed, sardonic one-liners designed to deflate egos and elicit uncomfortable laughter from listeners.
LikeNews: International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Top 10 Pirate Pickup Lines! Top 10 Jack Sparrow Quotes!
by otaking on Sep.19, 2009, under News
Ahoy! Today be the day of days, International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Aye, today be the day we raise our tankards of ale, rum, grog, or whatever have ye to our mistress the Sea, and the scurvy dogs what sail her vast bounty, to the buccaneers what answer to no law but their own!
OtaGonzo: Cosplay Mania 2009 Part II
by otaking on Sep.16, 2009, under Otagonzo
This is a shot taken while I was holding the camera over the heads of the crowd. Because there were that many people.
(Read Part I of my Cosplay Mania 2009 report here!)
Omake: Why is the Rum Gone Remix!
by otaking on Jul.29, 2009, under Omake
Wow, it’s been a pretty exciting few days for Project Otaking, hasn’t it? So, for all my wonderful readers, trolls, and fellow pirates, I bring you: Why is the Rum Gone Remix!
Nice beat 
Soapbox: On Freedom, Pirates, the High Seas, and Outer Space
by otaking on Jul.07, 2009, under Soapbox
Most people who aren’t pirate fans themselves tend to be confused at the enthusiasm and gusto with which pirate otaku throw themselves into the part. (For the sake of clarity, I am referring to the “Yo ho hoist the colors” type of pirate, not the “Burn fake DVDs with torrents off the Internet and sell in bazaars” kind.)
For starters, pirates tend to have bad teeth and bad breath. Jack Sparrow could knock out a man by breathing on him. It’s true!
Interlude I: ToyCon 2009
by otaking on Jun.14, 2009, under Interlude
(This isn’t an in-depth comprehensive coverage of the event. This is just the stuff that happened to me when I dropped by.)
The ticket lady’s patience was on the end of its tether. “One hundred,” she barked at me, holding up the ticket in front of my face.
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, so I avoided dismissing her as a bitch. Instead, I tried to see it her way — for the past two days she’s been crammed in a tiny booth dispensing tickets over and over again to endless lines of the weirdest people she’s ever seen, some of whom smell like cottage cheese stored under sweaty armpits. I’d be pissed too.
If I was normal.
