It was a dark and stormy night in 1712… make that 2012… when the band known as Linen Brocade first assembled in response to a plea from their fanboy, Captain Drew, to make an appearance at the PiratePalooza™ Pub Sing…
11Sep2015
Rum. Cleavage. Pubcrawls. YARRRR!
11Sep2015
It was a dark and stormy night in 1712… make that 2012… when the band known as Linen Brocade first assembled in response to a plea from their fanboy, Captain Drew, to make an appearance at the PiratePalooza™ Pub Sing…
11Sep2015
Steve Wright and Ed Rigel first met sometime around 2008, at the Georgia Renaissance Festival. Both men were musicians, but would not play together until 2011 when Ed, learning that his current bandmate had a gig that conflicted for that year’s PiratePalooza™, reached out to Steve to see if he was interested in putting something… Continue reading LandLoch’d at PiratePalooza!
11Sep2015
Ariana Pellayle and Rosemary Quench (better known as Becky Cormier Finch and Rivka Levin Carroll) first met at the Georgia Renaissance Festival in the Spring of 1996, and five years later they began singing together. Their first collaboration was in a band called Stone Soup, which played at the Georgia festival’s stage at the Brewer’s… Continue reading Half Pint at PiratePalooza!
13Aug2015
This evening I met several of my pirate kin to observe the official public opening of a new Avondale experience called “My Parents Basement”, which has been constructed upon the remains of the dear departed James Joyce Pub – a wonderful establishment that I understand to have been eaten by a giant star goat, or… Continue reading My Parents Basement is Full of Nerds
24Jan2015
Even though it is a few months past our 10th anniversary I wanted to thank all of my nerd friends for a tremendous decade together. It’s been quite a madcap voyage and I couldn’t have done it without each and every one of you, even if I can’t remember your individual names. I refer to… Continue reading Raising a Pint to Our First Decade (Let’s Kill DragonCon)
09Sep2014
Wouldn’t YOU like to know what this is all about? 😉 Secrets! 😉
06Sep2014
It’s time for the Scavenger Hunt & Booty Chase, m’hearties! Updates will be posted to our Facebook page, our Google+ page and to THIS post on Captain Drew’s blog (so those of you iconoclasts able to resist social media sites will be able to follow along from your bomb shelters). The winners of this year’s… Continue reading 2nd Annual Scavenger Hunt & Booty Chase
25Jul2014
Last week my Internet crew announced the first event in the lead-up to our 10th Annual PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl & Pubsing, which has come to be regarded as the “Start of Pirate Season” in the southeastern United States. Last night they brought the submissions to my cabin and we reviewed the many wonderful submissions. I would particularly like to thank Hilda… Continue reading Winners of Space Gun Contest Announced
17Jul2014
Listen up you scurvy lot, there be only 64 Days, 14 hours, and some odd minutes before the 10th Annual PiratePalooza™ begins… so as a warm-up to our upcoming 2nd annual scavenger hunt let’s give away some awesomely authentic plastic space pirate guns to the best THREE (3) PHOTOS that best captures the spirit of the… Continue reading Space Pirate Gun Contest
01Feb2014
Republished with persimmons from The Associated Reuters News Press-type Agency Beleaguered by mounting media scrutiny over the events leading to the monumental traffic nightmare resulting from this past Tuesday’s 2-inch snowfall, and facing harsh criticism from political rivals he will face in upcoming primary debates, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal announced at 9am this morning a… Continue reading Captain Drew Identified as Culprit in 2014 Snowjam
27Sep2013
To anyone who was at this year’s PiratePalooza and found a sack full of strange equipment, I would like it back. It contains my medicinal rum, a large block of cheese, a bottle of port wine, a television remote control, and my rPhone™. Unfortunately for me, the rPhone™ is the only thing besides my rPlank™… Continue reading Help: Lost Treasure in Siberia
25Sep2013
This past Saturday we celebrated the 9th edition of the PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl and Pubsing by invading the City of Decatarrrr and challenging the ghost of Commodore Stephen Decatur yet again (it’s a pirate tradition). As the clock ticked out the final 24 hours leading to the invasion I had to accept the hard truth that… Continue reading It Was A PiratePalooza™ Miracle
09Sep2013
A little less than four hours ago Captain Drew held his latest press conference, this time at Lenox Square Mall in Buckhead, a tony in-town Atlanta neighborhood known for upscale businesses and “wenches what has had a lot of work done in their bosom area”. Unlike his previous press conferences, the Captain avoided making a… Continue reading Captain Drew Announces New Annual Scavenger Hunt
14Aug2013
As noted in a previous post, pre-orders for the 2013 PiratePalooza™ shirts are now up and running and people are placing orders! Yesterday we updated the PiratePaloozaGear™ page to provide sizing information AND to announce the shirts we’ll be printing onto this year. The “standard” adult-T will be printed on high-quality Hanes 5180 Beefy-T’s, while… Continue reading Mockup of 2013 Ladies Fashion Shirt
11Aug2013
This weekend Captain Drew authorized his web crew to begin accepting pre-orders for the shirts for the 9th Annual PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl & Pubsing! Pre-orders proved so successful last year that the Captain has decreed that very few additional shirts will be ordered for walk-up sales, so if you want one be sure to pre-order this… Continue reading 2013 PiratePalooza™ Shirt Pre-Orders
07Aug2013
In yet another hastily-convened press conference, this morning Captain Drew unveiled to an astonished group of Japanese tourists the design for the 9th Annual PiratePalooza™ Pubcrawl & Pubsing: “The Curse of the Rumbullion” – a throwback to the classic pirate movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood. After a confusing exchange over the correct pronunciation… Continue reading 9th Annual PiratePalooza™ T-shirt Revealed