Lets face it, a New Years resolution is quickly forgotten by most people. But most of us start off the new year with at least an idea of what they want to accomplish even though things may not go as planned throughout the year. So if you are brave list your New Years Resolution list here!

For Me:
1) Don't get caught up in to many projects. Last year I think I bit off more than I could chew and ended up missing out on some fun.
2) Lose weight. Always a number one on my list! But I have plans this year to get back down to a weight I feel good at.
3) More Piracy! 2017 is the year of the pirate so I must up the ante a bit!
4) Take more pictures and videos (try to be narcissistic). It may seem weird but I am horrible at cataloging my adventures throughout the year. I am not a take a picture of everything I do type of person, I am more of a do it in the moment and everything else can be damned. I don't want to be attached to my phone but I do need some media to share.
5) Express myself more with interpretative drunk dancing.
6) Get prepared for gishwhes earlier than latter. It pays to prepare and after talking to some people who have done it for many years I have leaned to be prepared!

i am soooooooooo waked out on booze. Like normal. But hey you can't expect to much of me. But anyway, to the point. Ehem... First I want to say it has been a heck of a year. In case you didn't know I work internationally and within the US. It has been a hard year for me and I have taken on many projects as usual. Projects for work, projects for piracy, and family projects also. Also I spent may days with my mother who is a wonderful, tough, woman who raised me and 5 other boys, which kinda gave me some perspective on what it takes to survive in the world of Topsy turvey not knowing if you will win or lose mayhem. In the essence of time, over a lifetime, we all win and lose at specific points in our lives. So I wanted to give a gift to you all this Holiday, whatever holiday you are part of: Don't ever think that you are insignificant, don't ever think you are not worthy or do not make a mark in this world. You make your mark and we, as a world, appreciate it. We love you for all the good and bad that is part of your life and ours. Each one of you create this world we live in and that is a monumental accomplishment. So be proud of who you are and what you do in this world, even if it seems insignificant to you, it may be monumental to others.

So have a Happy Holiday because YOU deserve it!

P.S. I am currently waiting for Santa so I can steal all the presents. If you do not get what you want this Christmas it is because of me so, so sad, to bad, What do you expect of a pirate. I have not received a present from Santa for the last 37 years and he owes me. So by hook or by crook I will get all the presents Bwahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

P.S.S. I will try to bombard you with more 70's slow jam's this year (2017). We now have the Pirate Alexa on our side and she has a endless supply of music which we can blast at you! I also plan to program her in my own special way. Oh, by the way if Sony or any other musical copyright giant who has thwarted me in 2016 is watching/reading this: screw you I will deliver 70's slow jams if I even have to sing them myself! you heard me! I will riddle the world with awful signing of 70's music if you don't let me have my way! The death and destruction will be on you! and Kanye, because he is Kanye and he wants to fix peddle bikes (which I don't understand but seems weird so I will rally against it).

So this is where I am going to ruin it for everyone who has seen it or has not seen it yet. I could do that by pointing out plot holes, telling you about all the easter eggs, or giving you the ending. But that probably wouldn't ruin the movie to most of us who have a internet connection and the ability to log on to YouTube which host a bunch of videos discussing the Rogue One movie. I am going to ruin it with one word (read no further if you don't want the movie ruined). The word is "PENS"!

Yes this whole movie was ruined for me by the costume designer/directors (or whatever you call them in the movies) over use of PENS in POCKETS! You wont notice it right away, I didn't because I was interested in the story and was not paying particular attention to what the actors were wearing. But about 1/4 of the way through the movie I started to notice the PENS. I don't know why but after noticing them I could not UN-notice them. Almost everyone had some sort of PEN sticking out of their pockets, and some had up to 5 PENS in clear view on the screen. I saw PENS on shoulders, arms, chests, pants, and I think a belt buckle! Multiple big silver PENS, which no one ever used in the movie, sticking out of multiple pockets in places that seem inconvenient to hold a PEN. For Christ sake one of the actor had 4 or 5 PENS on the top of their left arm, right bellow their shoulder, that seemed to form a horizontal peacock tail. The good guys had PENS, the bad guys had pens, the people who were neither good nor bad had PENS, PENS everywhere! Some PENS had clips to keep them in pockets, some did not have clips, some PENS were thick, some PENS were thin, Some PENS had patterns or lights, others were very simple yet elegant. Aliens, who may or may not had the finger structure to use a PEN, had pockets full of PENS! My son did point out to me that one of the characters, towards the end of the movie, used a PEN as a communicator to warn some rebels. But the person on the other end of the communication used a standard walkies - talkies to talk back to him even though he clearly had 3 PENS right there on his jacket. If the PENS were communicators then wouldn't they all be communicators? You would think with that many pens you would see someone righting down a note or something. but the PENS just sit there doing nothing and I am just sitting in a movie theater counting PENS. That made it a crap movie.

I know the movie takes place a long time ago and in a galaxy far far away. Maybe its a cultural difference, maybe there was a sect of people that up to the time that the Death Star plans are stolen worshiped some benevolent PEN god and after the plans were stolen they were all like "We'll the PEN god didn't help one bit, Fuck him, everyone throw out your PENS!" I think this because in the lastest very end of the movie, where the original Star Wars begins, the PENS are gone. Or maybe the PENS thought "Crap all this violence is gumming up my ink, let us all leave my PEN brethren!" Then ZAP! all the PENS leave in a flash of magical light! Not sure how it happened but I know that my movie experience watching Rogue One was ruined by some weirdos obsession with PENS!

So if you go to see Rogue One look out for the PENS then come back here and help me figure this PEN mystery out. I will not be able to sleep until I figure it out or finish my bottle of rum.

Edit: Because rouge is a makeup thingy.