August 15, 2003
Sailsmen
Dave Eggers and his fellow postmodern geniuses at the 826 Valencia Writing Project in San Francisco decided the time had come to start a "front" business to make a little cash. So they opened up a Pirate Store.
Called simply The Store at 826 Valencia, it sells a variety of nautical supplies and piratey paraphenalia, including eye patches, planks, mops, glass eyes and a bucket of lard. In typical Eggers humor, the store features a blowfish named Karl ("the v. intelligent-looking fish with the blue eyes that never stop searching. Karl is thinking!") and a feud with San Fran's other pirate-supply store, Captain Rick's Booty Cove. The store also features a great many informative signs:
The store is apparently making enough money to pay the Writing Project's rent. But how could it not, what with the ringing endorsement of David Byrne: "Definitely one of the top five pirate stores I've been to recently."
Today, by the way, is the store's official Shouting In Foreign Languages Day. Although most of you are likely a long ways from San Fran, I encourage you to take part all the same. Ahoka! Sodai gomi!
Posted by mesh at August 15, 2003 05:05 PM | TrackBackchinga tu madre, culero!
Posted by: dp at August 15, 2003 05:53 PMdont look that one up.
Posted by: dp at August 16, 2003 01:52 AMI've got this Japanese language training set of cds and when you get a question right you hear either a man or a woman yelling either "Atari~~~!!!" or "Yoku dekimashita!" I have no idea what "Atari" means (I think it means "correct") but "Yoku dekimashita" means "You did it well" or something along those lines. That's what I thought of when you said "Shouting in Foreign Languages Day."
Posted by: mkrueger at August 18, 2003 09:54 AM