Rocking the Eye Patch (Not-So-Pirate-Style)

As I posted on my other blog (http://www.themoviejunkiecooks.blogspot.com/), it's been a rough, tense couple of weeks here at the Movie Junkie Castle. My little girl had some asthmatic problems which involves trying to adjust to new medications and daily nebulizer treatments. I was rushed to the hospital in unbelievable pain to find out I had two kidney stones. And when I came home from the hospital, I found my little boy holding his eye and crying and screaming that he was blind.

After trying to get him to open his eyes and thinking it was a simple poke in the eye, I realized he also needed medical attention. So, off to urgent care we went. The story has it that my son was playing with my Lola (my over sized, over excited puppy) and Lola got him in the eye with her claw. The doctor let me look into my son's eye with this groovy black lighted magnifying glass and sure enough....there was the BIG scratch right where my son's pupil is.

They put all kinds of drops and fluids in his eye, then patched him up. And then the comments came. Comments like:

"Arrrggg!!"

"Hey! It's Captain Jack!!"

"Arrggg!!!"

"Look at the Little Pirate!"

"Arrggg!!!"

"Ahoy Matey!"

and of course: "Arrrgggg!!!"

My son thought having an eye patch was the coolest thing! He was disappointed that he only needed it for two days and that he never got to wear it school. All he kept saying was how he was just like the pirates. He wished his friends could have seen it because "They would think this is SO COOL!!"

But, what pirates? I tried to think of a Pirate with an Eye Patch.

Captain Hook?



No.

Captain Jack or his counterparts?


No.

The only one I could come up with was One Eyed Willie from the Goonies.


And he's a dead pirate, so does he count? Why do we associate the Eye Patch with the Pirate? Where did that come from?

I can think of so many other characters from movies and T.V. that I associate with the Eye Patch.

A psycho killer assassin nurse:


A futuristic action hero trying to escape:


Angelina Jolie makes the Eye Patch kinda hot:


We got original and remade gunslingers:


Samuel L. Jackson wears a m*thrf*ckin' Eye Patch as Nick Fury:


Anthony Hopkins will be rocking a Mythical Eye Patch in an upcoming Movie:


Tom Cruise tones down the "Crazy Eyes" to just one Crazy Eye:


The Wonderfully, Weirdly, Oddly, and Strange Crispin Glover wears a Patch in Alice in Wonderland:


Danny Glover not only wears a Patch on one eye, but is blind in the other:


And Mad Eye Moody has the coolest Eye Patch EVER!!


But NO Pirates!!! I looked. I googled. All I got was a whole bunch of pictures of Johnny Depp and lots of cheap, cheesy Pirate Costumes. And the occasional advertisement for some Pirate Themed Porn. Hey, whatever floats their boat, eh?

So, why do we associate the Pirate with the Eye Patch? Where did that come from? Please, if you know, leave me a comment. I love being educated on odd, random, trivial stuff like this. You never know when it might be a Final Jeopardy Question.

On a final note...I can't write about the Eye Patch and not mention this guy:


If you are a child of the 80's, you know who he is. Steve "Patch" Johnson. He was a Mega-Star in the Daytime Television World. He hailed from Days of Our Lives and became one of the most memorable Soap Characters of all times.

There was a time when they gave his character a make-over and plastic surgery so he could have two eyes and go undercover as a Janitor at a Religious Cult Church/Compound thingy to catch the Reverend at something shady....and the fans cried out in dismay over the loss of his Eye Patch. So, they had to write in another fight/accident that resulted in damaging his new "Glass" Eye and bringing the Patch back.

Yep. He knew how to rock the Eye Patch.

And so did my son...for two days.