Going on the Account: Part the One Hundred Forty Fourth

Part the One Hundred Forty Fourth is now up, and may be read here.
 
EDIT: It’s up now, for real; I slotted this announcement in to be ready to upload automatically soon after I scheduled the chapter to go up, but my powder sparked early.  I moved up publishing the part as ‘make good’ for folks who got the announcement [...]

Going on the Account: Part the One Hundred Forty Third

Part the One Hundred Forty Third is now up, and may be read here.

Going on the Account: Stand and Be LEGOed

If you’re looking for a new pirate movie and are feeling anxious since PotC 4 is still in pre-pro, you may want to check out this LEGO pirate movie.  Admittedly, it’s short on plot, but there’s only so much content you can unspool via YouTube at one time…
And while I have considered a visual component [...]

Going on the Account: Part the One Hundred Forty Second

Part the One Hundred Forty Second is now up, and may be read here.

Going on the Account: Part the One Hundred Forty First

Part the One Hundred Forty First is now up, and may be read here.

Going on the Account: Part the One Hundred Fortieth

Part the One Hundred Fortieth is now up, and may be read here.

Going on the Account: Knowing Our Ropes

As I do for the readers here who keep coming back to see what’s going on in the real world in what we call the Modern Age of Piracy (though the ones who drop in at random are just as welcome), I scour the news to pass on the latest word.  Much like ship captains [...]

Going on the Account: Dark Sails About (Other than off Somalia)

It looks like writers are going through their own Napster encounters; this piece in today’s New York Timestalks about unauthorized digital copies of novels appearing on the Web, with reactions among writers varying between outrage and lackadaisical dismissal.
 
It’d be ironic if piracy hit here; who’s going to smuggle something that’s free…?

Going on the Account: Part the One Hundred Thirty Ninth

Part the One Hundred Thirty Ninth is now up, and may be read here.

Going on the Account: Loss of Safe Harbor?

From the electronic version of the New York Times, and very likely tomorrow’s print edition, is this piece about Somali pirates feeling pressure to go off the account.
 
In addition to word that the situation is drawing some aid attention and a willingness to abandon chaos ashore, what’s especially striking are the descriptions of what happened to [...]

Going on the Account: More Tales to Tell

I was introduced to a writer with an admirable career:  Belgian comics writer Jean Van Hamme. 
 
Where the story in the Wall Street Journalon Van Hamme struck me was the point on how the writers in that industry are in high demand.  In Belgium, not having a writer is considered a crisis; here, some folks seem to [...]

Going on the Account: Not Your Usual Sea Tale

It looks like we have our first Hollywood treatment on the Modern Age of Piracy:  The life story of Andrew Mwangura is coming to the big screen, and Samuel L. Jackson is on board to produce and star.  This could be interesting…