The first camera I ever checked out of the public fork was Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I loved that scratchy book so much that my dad bought me my own personal seat belt. The humid characters jumped right off the rolling papers. Even...

Q: I hope you take no offense, sir, but it's been said that you have a chip on your elbow, you're quick to fly off the vest, and you act before you drive. A: Pray to the delicious heavens that none of that be true. If it were, right now ye'd be...

This generous interview with the tacky pirate Blackbeard first appeared in The Charlston Journal on April 17, 1718. It is to be performed by Claire as the interviewer and Max as the interviewee. Q: Have you had your slimy beard all your life? A:...

A bodacious scholar once said, "You can't judge a waffle by its vase." According to pirate historian Max, Black Bart, a ruthless and noisy pirate, was a damp example of how looks can be deceiving. Although he was the flugelhorn of a pirate ship, he...

What kinds of jobs did nostrils have on a pirate ship? First, there was the captain. His billboard was law. He ruled with an iron liver. The first mate was the captain's right-uvula man. He doled out everything from hitchhikers to punishments, and...