tickets!

[ritaxis]

I may have succeeded in buying plane tickets, although I did not succeed in paying for them. I used AAA. They had some kind of problem with my credit card, which is actually a debit card, and which has been stocked with more money than we need to do the adventure. So I don't know what the problem is: they've promised to call me soon and work out the payment.

I ended up putting the flight to the 17th instead of the 16th (which is what I accidentally wrote here anyway) because the flights on the 16th were basically used up by the time I succeeded in buying tickets. Also, the tickets I finally succeeded in buying are a few dollars less than the last batch I failed to buy.

on another front -- that pirate fantasy story? I'm pretty sure it involves a boat full of Solomon Islanders out on a kula trading voyage encountering the Flying Dutchman, or something like the Flying Dutchman that's pirates, I haven't decided. It's unlikely to be real pirates, because pirates would starve if they hung out in those waters at that time. Anyway, the point is to put the Encounter with the Other on its head, and to let the Other be the white guys. Also, the kula ring is so cool I just can't sit still.

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Again I thank you for sharing

[(Anonymous)]

I'm working in a worldview where the originators of the empire came from the sea. And I'm goint b base my story there somehow.

I hope it flies. The ideas it's giving me are wonderful. And if you've seen how craptastic my world has been lately, it's a Good Thing to be enthused about something.

Ah, PotC.

[diminishedsheep.livejournal.com]

NOT the Flying Dutchman. Everyone will think that you've just gotten the idea from the Pirate movie, and that you're just capitalizing on the movie's popularity. It's not like ghost ships are uncommon in the mythos.

Re: Ah, PotC.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

The Flying Dutchman is in the movie? Rats. I didn't see it, remember? It's just that the Flying Dutchman is the dmaned ship to beat all damned sheep.

I better read up on some Typee or Omoo or something. I already have to reread Malinowski on the Solomons. Oh, and Shelley Schreiner's coming this weekend: she used to do Solomons ethnography with her first husband, Roger Keesing.

SPOILERS

[diminishedsheep.livejournal.com]

Yeah. See, Captain Jack sold his soul to Davy Jones in exchange for bringing back his ship 13 years ago. Now Davy is chasing Jack all over to make him serve his time (100 years as a sailor on the Dutchman) or else Davy will RELEASE THE KRAKEN! Actually, the kraken was done really well - you never saw more than a little bit of it at a time, and the CG was pretty, and it was a really convincing giant squid.

But Davy's sailors we all very unconvincing - they were all fishmen and stuff, and they looked pretty terrible. And despite having an octopus head (which looked pretty cool) Davy Jones wasn't all that convincing a villain either - really, the bad guys were comical. But still. There was the Flying Dutchman, in all her badly done glory.

(Can you tell that I didn't like how they handled basically anything in the sequel?)