The food is good, the drinks are better, and the wenches are best, and that's why the Bilge Pumps can't seem to stay away from the Texas Pirate Festival, taking place on the grounds of Middlefaire in Hillsboro.

The festival will take place the weekend after Scarborough is over, so you'll be just jonesing for one more weekend to hang out with your friends in fun and goofy getups. Well, here's your chance!

Come on out and spend some time with us pirates as we bellow our tunes to stir the dead in their graves. Then load up your pistols for the ensuing zombie attack! Zombies and pirates? Who can say no to that?

We're back for year number 12 at the Acadian festival that was crazy enough to hire us in their first season and continues to have the lack of class to bring us back. Not that we're complaining.

We'll be there for the first two weekends of the festival doing our best to lure the gators our of the swamp by imitating their mating calls in three part harmony, cleverly disguised as a sea shanty. Bring your nets to the show and join in the fun!

Details are sketchy at the moment, so check back with us to determine when and where we'll be peforming.