WTF?

McDonalds, one of the biggest franchises around, has a partner-promotion deal with Pirates of the Caribbean. McDonalds customers get tabs with prize numbers on them with some purchases. They go online and check to see what they win.

The consolation prize is a POTC soundtrack medley download.

That's nice. I like the music but haven't purchased the soundtrack.

Except that the contest download track is not compatible with iPod!

Who creates downloadable music for a huge promotion that isn't compatible with the #1 portable music player??

Alchymical Wedding

http://www.crossroads.wild.net.au/wedding.htm

This is a link to an Alchymical Wedding ceremony in which a man who has been taking estrogen to manifest his feminine aspect physically but without completely changing genders, and who had been doing a long series of ritual designed to put him more in touch with his anima, held an elaborate public ceremony in which his animus and anima married.

It's a fascinating document. . .

Pirate Play

I enjoyed an utterly delightful, spontaneous, pirate role-playing scene with uncrowned_king via ICQ last night. That is, I was the pirate, and he was the privateer in the service of the crown who was taking exception to some of my entrepreneurial activities. (Or was he just using that as an excuse to board me. . . my ship?)

Gave me the shivers, he did.

The scene came to a regrettably early end, but I'm looking forward to Episode 2!

Fandom: Norrington Love

For those of us who think that James Norrington is the hottest man in the POTC movies. . . . _norrington