I am a big fan of Lucasart’s Monkey Island games. I have been waiting for the 5th game in the series ever since it was teased in the 4th game. There were times when I thought it would never happen. Luckily, at this weeks E3, Telltale Games announce that they are going to be releasing monthly episodes this summer.

This is possibly the best video game involving pirates.

I came across this article on You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice last and thought it was interesting enough to post about.

Do you remember the children’s book Nate the Great? Me neither. But it was a book published back in 1972 about a boy detective who solves murders petty crimes. In the book series this is this girl who goes by Rosamond who can only be described as “strange”.

See? They call her strange. Anyway, if you’ve been in Hot Topic recently (you can admit it, I wont think less of you), you may have noticed this girl.

Her name is Emily and she is “strange” as well. Emily was the poster child for skateboards in the early 90′s and have since become a pop culture icon with her very own book series.

Notice anything different? Me neither aside from a few words. YTWWN has more detailed information about this possible copyright infringement.

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As drawn by Terry Blas.

Avast! Tina Fey, who you may more commonly know as Sarah Palin, is also a fellow book pirate!

Thank to The Hidden Side of a Leaf for bringing this important bit of information to my attention.

Ahoy, booklubbers. Today be National Talk Like a Pirate Day. So ye had best be doin’ that.

Tomorrow we be also celebrating with the ceremonial grog at the Portland Pirate Festival.

Arrr.

I haven’t been reading the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer. Or The Host. She’s just a little too popular for my tastes (which really should be a deciding factor when selecting a book to read, I know). Anyway, part of Midnight Sun, the next book in the Twilight Series, had been leaked on the internet and Stephenie Meyer is so distraught over it that she has placed the book “on hold indefinitely” which is pretty much the same as canceling it. On her web site, she has posted the leaked draft to help keep her fans honest so they don’t have to crawl to the darker corners of the internet to download it.

On one hand I can understand her frustration. As a writer I don’t like people reading my rough drafts. Only after my third or fourth attempt at a piece do I feel comfortable showing it to people. But to go as far as to cancel a book? That’s a little dramatic in my opinion. Part of me thinks this might have something to do with the generally negative response to Breaking Dawn.

Friend and co-worker Nathalie drew her rendition of a Book Pirate.

Nathalie has a art blog here which you can check out and she is also part of the Robopocalypse Comics Collective.