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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Tag Archives: pirates
Various artists’ Rogue’s Gallery
I’ve never considered myself a particular fan of sea chanteys, but this collection just may make a convert of me. When I read the press release from Anti- earlier this year, I was immediately intrigued by the project, not least … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Celtic music, pirates, sea chanteys, sea songs
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S.E. Hinton’s Hawkes Harbour
S.E. Hinton has had an interesting career. She sold her first (and subsequently most well known) novel The Outsiders, when she was only 17. That was in 1967. In the years since, her career has been punctuated by long breaks … Continue reading
Michael Curtiz’s The Sea Hawk
It may be hard for some to believe, but Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding, the pirate movie genre wasn’t always as moribund as it is today. Tall ships with billowed sail pursuing each other through the seas, blazing cannons, swashbuckling … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged adventure, historical drama, pirates
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Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Norrington: “You are without a doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of. Jack Sparrow: “But you have heard of me.” Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate’s life for me. From Errol Flynn sailing the high seas to Cary Elwes … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, fantasy, pirates, The Princess Bride
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Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride
L.G. Burnett wrote this review. Envision a film with Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Peter Falk, and Peter Cook that is absolutely hilarious, yet none of them appear in the lead roles. “Inconceivable!,” you cry and I reply, “I do not … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, contemporary fantasy, pirates
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Various artists’ Son of Rogue’s Gallery
I keep thinking the whole pirate thing will play out, but it seems it has legs, even if one of them is a peg. A couple of friends of mine started International Talk Like A Pirate Day back in about … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, folk music, folk-rock, pirates, sea chanteys
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Captain Bogg & Salty’s Bedtime Stories For Pirates, Pegleg Tango, and Prelude To Mutiny
There are certain adventurers, bold and ruthless men who face the most dangerous foes – bored schoolchildren – and manage to bait them into laughing hysterically. They venture into the sacred precincts of libraries and deliberately make noise. They fearlessly … Continue reading
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Tagged pirates, rock and roll
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Various artists’ Rogue’s Gallery
I’ve never considered myself a particular fan of sea chanteys, but this collection just may make a convert of me. When I read the press release from Anti- earlier this year, I was immediately intrigued by the project, not least … Continue reading