“Black Sails on Starz had to have a homo angle—and this show is about 1700s pirates!”
Well, actually:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0814712363/thebookofzines
Well, that’s a new perspective.
The first Amazon comment said it all:
By shoeboy on September 8, 2000
Format: Paperback
Ahoy me fine salty sailors. If ye be lookin for gripping adventure on the high seas, this be the book for ye. It hoisted me mizzen mast and shivered me timbers, Yar! If you’ve ever wondered exactly what to do with a drunken sailor, this is the book for you. The author, Barry Richard Burg is a great expert on seamen and it really shows through. I was dissapointed to find that the nautical phrase “a three days blow” didn’t mean what I thought it did, but the author’s loving descriptions of how these pirates would oil each other up with whale blubber and lash each other with the cat o’ nine tails more than made up for it. I’m tempted to go summon my cockswain, rent “The Pirate Movie”, then kick back and mourn the passing of the days when burly pirates would start their day by opening the seacock and pumping furiously. Customers who bought titles by Barry Richard Burg also bought titles by J. K. Rowling — coincidence? I think not.