While the pirates take them to the ship, Hook and Mr. Smee lower a time bomb (disguised as a gift of love from Wendy) in the hideout, since Peter is still there. Captain Hook tries to convince the captured children to join his crew, but they all refuse. Wendy believes Peter will ...
I used to watch it every Saturday night when I was growing up and loved the old cast: Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Bill Murray and all the rest. I don’t think the show is anywhere near as good as it used to be, but they still come up with some great stuff. Enough...
I’m trying to remember the last time I tried to ‘look cool’. I really can’t. It’s been decades since I’ve tried to do anything to impress anybody that way. I can’t even remember doing that when I was young. I never really thought that way. Always just “take me the way...
One is a riveting Hollywood adventure, the other a searching and nuanced documentary, but “Captain Phillips” and “Stolen Seas” — which, taken together, comprise the year’s most engaging double bill — traverse similar narrative and thematic terrain. Both ask, in every sense one might mean...
and the Suez Canal. It chronicles the rigors of traveling in a remote section of the world rarely visited by cruisers. Exit Only dodges Yemeni pirates, fights a gale and sand storms in the Bab al Mandeb at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. The crew explores deserted islands on the ...
and you have to get yourself mentally prepared to go across. It's a stressful time when fears start creeping into the minds of your loved ones. It was probably the dangers of my job that were on Andrea's mind that cold March -- pirates, rogue waves, desperate people in third-world po...
Puzzle Pirates continues to thrive, with the addition of Atlantean Sea Monsters this autumn and some very exciting things coming up that I’m not allowed to talk about. The Nautilus continues to amaze; last week I was interviewed for a piece on NPR about Steampunk! I’ll post when I know...
and then scattered the Knights purportedly to search for the King, but making sure nobody would look near the pirates' island base. Merlin's magicks, however, found the King's location, allowing him to send the Black Knight (who had managed to escape) to rescue the King. With the statu...
I am trying to avoid shopping ’til the end of my trip since I don’t want to lug any more ‘stuff’ all over Asia, but it was interesting to look anyway. You could bargain and get a decent price on pretty much anything you wanted. The people weren’t too pushy either. If you ...
We actually did just fine. We didn’t run out of much of anything (just laundry soap and jelly -for the PBJ’s). We had plenty of beans and rice every day thanks to Marvin. I helped cook a couple of times and so did the Chief Engineer ‘Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtle’. (Capta...