Blackbead

The quote is from "Sin City" but I have no idea where Bond hid the check.

Well wrote, mate! The emotion you feel shines through like a sunbeam in a deep, island lagoon. Just remember, they are never gone so long as we remember them and your poem is a fine remembrance of someone who, I can tell by reading this piece, was a fine sailor and gentleman of fortune! Blackbead

Just finished Martin Cruz Smith's Stalin's Ghost and just started Michael Jeck's The Last Templar.

If ye want one of these at a bargain, I have one up on eBay and the current bid is ninety-nine cents!! Add in $1.75 for shipping and you're getting a great deal!

"Gather around me, ye brave seadogs, and I'll tell ye a tale of the sea! Believe what ye will when I'm finished but remember that no tale is free!" Come check out the new CD, "A Night at Devil's Tavern" - www.blackbead-jewelry.com/ANADT. Order your own copy of this CD full of sixteen tracks of poetry and music! Only $6 plus $2 S&H! Get your copy NOW!

Driving home late at night (say, halfway through the first watch - that's aout 10:30 PM to any of you lubbers out there) and being passed by a motorcyclist going about eighty, doing a wheelie.

BALLS . . . a'course I mean of the cannon variety! Get yer minds outta the gutter! It's getting too crowded down here! Blackbead

http://www.piratedays.org/ - their website speaks for itself! Ahoy, mates! This here be the seond year for this fantastic festival in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex! Check out the info on last year and the expected appearances this year - http://www.piratedays.org/3.html. This is shaping up to be the best pirate festival in Texas! Come one, come all, and make this the Texas version of the other great pirate parties across the US! See ye there! Blackbead

I DO happen to know that Rumba will have copies of both Raising Black Flags and "A Night at Devil's Tavern" so if you haven't gotten your copy of either OR BOTH of those items, NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!! And I'm willin' to bet that Rumba will autograph either or both, TOO!!

Welcome! Glad to have another cook about. Talk to ye soon! Blackbead PS: Do you like the song that goes with your name?

Rain, tornadoes and the cold are NOT a good mixture. I do like the idea of a festival where everyone can wear their piratical finest - waistcoat, coat and cravat. But the mixture of the three are no good.

I hate hearing that . . . in a few years, I plan on retiring from the life of a wealthy, landed, titled, squire-ish, power-mad barrister and take to the high seas as a private merchant and wandering poet. I'll need all the ports I can find if I'm going to make a go of this and Port Washington was one that I had high hopes for. Well, as goes the motto of the Knights of the Round Table, "Adopt, adapt, and improve." Therefore, by my very will alone, I will bend the course of the universe so that Port Washington becomes not only a certainty but an outrageous success story for festivals the world over to emulate. Here goes. Anyone feeling anything, yet?

Ahoy, Capn' Mac! Welcome to the Pub! Mark Twain, gotta love 'im! Enjoy your wanderings here in port and I'll have a dram o' that Black Strap it ye please! Blackbead

As a vendor, I can never condone what this man has done. As someone who has made mistakes in me own life, I can never deny him the opportunity to ask forgiveness. The real question is always "what of the second chance"? I've been a prosecuting attorney and a defense counsel. Our justice system is based on the ideal that people can make mistakes, pay for it, then start over again. I cannot tell this man what he must do, in any real sense, but if it were me, I would do what so many other criminals have done in the past - I would go away for awhile. Deprive meself of the society of these women and men who are living the life we all desire so heartily for a time and then return with hands ready to do the work of an Able Seaman and not a "Captain." There is no sin that a man cannot recover from except self-destruction. Or self-delusion. But, I think, m'lad, that the issue of "title" be now moot. You've sullied your name. What you do now will determine your fate in this community forever. Seek the wisdom of Solomon a'fore ye take another, single, step. And that's all I have to say about that . . . Blackbead

“We waste so much energy agonizing over the fact that we will never become what we want to be that we only have the strength to become what we have to be and never realize the ultimate glory of becoming what we can be.” John Nagle