Sunday May 18, 2008 (8am)
The organizers of the Million Pirate March have a simple goal: to gather one million of their swashbuckling brethren and, as a symbol of solidarity, march together during this year's Bay to Breakers (presumably while drinking many bottles of rum). For land-lubbers, their website includes a number of helpful fashion tips, the official MPM logo (easily printable as a flag, of course), and instructions for converting an ordinary shopping cart into a marauding pirate ship. So get your eye patches and peg legs ready — one million yo-ho-ho-ers can't be wrong.
– Connie Hwong