Tag Archives: pirates

Curiouser and Curiouser

Posted on June 22, 2026 by Nathan

Pandora, by Susan Stokes-Chapman – This was an online recommendation for me some time ago, probably because I was reading a lot of stuff based on Greek mythology. I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the book. It uses … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Games, Greek Mythology, infocom, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Star Trek, Technology, Video Games, zork | Tagged archaeology, caramon majere, classic dragonlance chronicles, dragonlance, dragons, dragons of autumn twilight, dragons of spring dawning, dragons of winter night, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, elves, emma hamilton, fizban, flint fireforge, ganelon silvermane, gondwane, kender, kitiara uth matar, krynn, lin carter, mages, margaret weis, pandora, pirates, raistlin majere, robots, susan stokes-chapman, tanis half-elven, tasselhoff burrfoot, the pirate of world's end, tracy hickman, william hamilton, zork aargh | Leave a comment

The Final Insult

Posted on March 18, 2026 by Nathan

Escape from Monkey Island – While I can’t speak to other ports of this game, the version that comes with Steam doesn’t have mouse support at all, so I used the keyboard for everything. Guybrush moves with what I’ve seen … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Humor, infocom, lucasarts, Magic, Maps, Religion, Video Games, Voodoo, zork | Tagged assault on egreth castle, conroy bumpus, day of the tentacle, dirinthrax, duncanthrax, egreth castle, escape from monkey island, frobwit the fair, governor elaine marley, gurthark the stout, guybrush threepwood, herman toothrot, infocomics, lechuck, lord dimwit flathead, maniac mansion, melee island, monkey island, monkey kombat, monkeys, ozzie mandrill, pirates, sam and max hit the road, sorcerer, spellbreaker, the crystal of doom, thorman the red-beard, time travel, triax, zorkquest, zorkquest i, zorkquest ii | 3 Comments

A Pirate I Was Meant to Be

Posted on January 8, 2026 by Nathan

The Curse of Monkey Island – The third game in the series was also the first not to be designed by Ron Gilbert, who had left the previous installment with a weird ending in which LeChuck was Guybrush’s brother, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Authors, Humor, lucasarts, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Plays, Relationships, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged alan young, amusement parks, barbery coast, captain lechimp, death, demons, ghosts, governor elaine marley, grim fandango, guybrush threepwood, haggis mcmutton, lechuck, loom, manuel calavera, marriage, monkey island, monkey island 2, monkeys, pirates, plunder island, roller coasters, ron gilbert, skeletons, skulls, the curse of monkey island, the secret of monkey island, undead | 1 Comment

Simon Says Something Snarky

Posted on January 1, 2026 by Nathan

Simon the Sorcerer II: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe – The first game ended with Simon being pulled against his will into the sequel, but that’s not exactly how this one starts, even if the part of his … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, lucasarts, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Video Games | Tagged cats, goblins, goldilocks and the three bears, graeae, guybrush threepwood, jinn, lady of the lake, lions, monkey island, mucswampling's, mucusade, pirates, roger wilco, simon the sorcerer, simon the sorcerer ii, simon woodroffe, sordid, swampling, swords, the lion the wizard and the wardrobe, witches, wizards | 1 Comment

You Can’t Take it with You

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Nathan

Years ago, although it doesn’t feel like it, I wrote about the inconsistent rules for magic outside fairyland in the Oz books. There are a few elements here that I thought I’d expand upon. I’ll start with an exchange towards … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged button-bright, camels, circlets of halidom, david perry, dorothy gale, elixir of life, fairyland, glinda, hugh pendexter, humpty bumpty, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jewelry, jewels, jinrikisha, john dough and the cherub, kapurta, love magnet, magic belt, merry go round in oz, michael patrick hearn, nome king, oz and the three witches, ozma, ozma of oz, peter brown, pirates, pirates in oz, polacky the plunderer, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, red jinn, robin brown, shell city, silver shoes, speedy, speedy in oz, the annotated wizard of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the gnome king of oz, the road to oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok, tik-tok of oz, tompy terry, umbrella island, uncle henry, w.w. denslow, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, yankee, yankee in oz | 2 Comments

Big Whoop

Posted on August 28, 2025 by Nathan

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge – I noticed what appeared to be Monkey Island references in both of the last two games I finished, The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate and Simon the Sorcerer. The developers of these games … Continue reading →

Posted in Dreams, Humor, Libraries, lucasarts, Magic, Relationships, Religion, Star Wars, Video Games, Voodoo | Tagged governor elaine marley, guybrush threepwood, largo legrande, lechuck, lechuck's revenge, monkey island, monkey island 2, pirates, purple tentacle, scabb island, skeletons | 2 Comments

You Fight Like a Dairy Farmer

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Nathan

The Secret of Monkey Island – This seems to be one of the better remembered LucasArts adventure games. I’ve seen its jokes referenced online, as well as in later games. But I hadn’t played it until this week, and it … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Food, Humor, lucasarts, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Names, Relationships, Sierra, Star Trek, Technology, Video Games | Tagged 2001 a space odyssey, alien, aliens, cannibalism, captain jean-luc picard, captain kielbasa, captain syrup, day of the tentacle, deepship 86, elmo pug, ghosts, governor elaine marley, guybrush threepwood, herman toothrot, lechuck, melee island, monkey island, monkeys, pirates, quest for glory, rob paulsen, roger jackson, roger wilco, roger wilco in the spinal frontier, space quest, space quest 6, space quest collection, space quest iii, space quest v, stellar santiago, stooge fighter 3, the secret of monkey island, the spinal frontier, the three stooges, wriggley | 3 Comments

Sumer Is Icumen In

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Nathan

The Broken Sword, by Poul Anderson – As with some other Anderson books that I’ve read, this mixes different mythologies in a single story, and in a way that doesn’t seem forced. It’s mostly based on Norse myth, using a … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Celtic, Christianity, Egyptian, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Mesopotamia, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Oz, Poul Anderson, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Sumerian, Wayward Children | Tagged adrift in currents clean and clear, agriculture, another day, atlas, belyyreka, bible, changelings, civilization, delos, elves, enki, enlil, fairies, firmament, geb, geese, genesis, inanna, jinn, league of princes, lord of the rings, marduk, nanna, ninlil, ninurta, nut, odin, out of oz, pirates, samuel noah kramer, shu, skafloc, sleeping beauty, sumerian mythology, swords, the brides of maracoor, the broken sword, the fellowship of the ring, the hero's guide to being an outlaw, thor, tiamat, trolls, tuatha de danann, turtles, utu, vikings, weapons, wicked, wicked witch of the west, witches | 3 Comments

Pig in a Plane

Posted on April 5, 2023 by Nathan

SPOILERS for all three movies covered here. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls – I’ve actually now seen this twice, and didn’t get that much out of it either time. It’s pretty good aesthetically, though, with the outfits and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Aztec, Babylonian, Cartoons, Comics, Greek Mythology, History, Music, Mythology, Names, Native American, Roman, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged ajak, ajax, angelina jolie, athena, baloo, beyond the valley of the dolls, celestials, circe, eternals, fio piccolo, gilgamesh, hephaestus, jack kirby, kingo, kingu, makkari, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, mercury, phastos, phil spector, pipettes, pirates, porco rosso, quetzalcoatl, roger ebert, russ meyer, salma hayek, sersi, studio ghibli, talespin, tiamat, tiamut, valley of the dolls, world war i, zeus | 1 Comment

Why Don’t You Get Things Started?

Posted on February 5, 2023 by Nathan

We finished watching what’s available on Disney Plus of The Muppet Show, which means all of them except for the Brooke Shields and Chris Langham episodes, the former because of music rights issues (mostly for “Off to See the Wizard,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Celebrities, Humor, Monsters, Muppets, Music, Poetry, Prejudice, Sesame Street, Star Wars, Television | Tagged bobby benson, c-3po, chewbacca, cookie monster, count von count, debbie harry, fozzie bear, glenda jackson, jerry nelson, kermit the frog, koozebane, link hogthrob, lips, liza minelli, luke skywalker, mark hamill, marty feldman, miss piggy, pigs, pirates, r2-d2, racism, rats, rizzo the rat, robert frost, robots, roosevelt franklin, sam the eagle, shirley bassey, Statler and Waldorf, steve whitmire, the great gonzo, the muppet movie, the muppet show, the muppets, they shoot horses don't they | 2 Comments

Tag Archives: pirates

Curiouser and Curiouser

The Final Insult

A Pirate I Was Meant to Be

Simon Says Something Snarky

You Can’t Take it with You

Big Whoop

You Fight Like a Dairy Farmer

Sumer Is Icumen In

Pig in a Plane

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