by admin | Jul 18, 2012 | Pirate Adventures
The world of piracy in Seattle is not as I once knew it. It seems that the Seafair Pirates have gone soft. They don’t even seem to know how to act like pirates these days, being stripped to their skivvies of all the things that makes pirootin’ fun. I...
by admin | Jul 10, 2012 | Pirate Adventures
The Seafair Pirates landed on Alki this weekend, just as they always do. Well, that’s not quite true. There was a time when they were banished from the beach, largely because of my mutinous ways. It all started because the Seafair Pirates weren’t on the...
by admin | Jun 25, 2012 | Pirate Adventures
Returning to Seattle, I have noticed that a few things have changed. Not surprising, given that many years have passed since I last called the Emerald City home. Perhaps the most surprising, however, is that Mark Christopher is hosting all these specials on Channel 9....
by admin | Jun 8, 2012 | Pirate Adventures
My pirate life took a couple interesting turns over the last few weeks. It started at a meeting at work. People there don’t really know what I do in my off hours. Well, at least they didn’t. I thought I would keep the whole thing under wraps for a while....
by admin | May 8, 2012 | Pirate Adventures
I can’t really write about my first two marriages and ignore the last one. It was epic in all respects, much like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies that defined the various stages of our relationship. I met Diablo during the release party of Pirates of the...
by admin | Jan 10, 2012 | Pirate Adventures
I have done some pretty odd things in my life, all in an effort to have a relationship with a woman. I have learned to snowmobile, cross country ski, snow ski… the list goes on. But I have say that coming close to drowning takes the cake. As we all know,...
by admin | Nov 22, 2011 | Pirate Adventures
This week it’s time to head down to Key West again for 11 days of fun in the sun. I know, I know. My northern friends are cursing me loudly, but even when I lived in the Great White North I flew all the way across this fair land to Key West on several occasions....
by admin | Oct 27, 2011 | Pirate Adventures
Pirates in Paradise is just a couple weeks away now. If you aren’t a pirate or wench kind of person, you may have never heard of it. Suffice it to say that PiP (as it is known), is the Mardi Gras/Christmas of the pirate world. Hundreds of pirates attend. For 10...
by admin | Oct 3, 2011 | Growing Up, Pirate Adventures
Yesterday, I stepped into the past. It’s not the past that I remember, but a different version of it that is the present. Still, it was pretty cool to do that. The visit to the past began at what used to be the TNT Tavern. It’s no longer there on Admiral...
by admin | Jul 8, 2011 | Pirate Adventures
With my fifth unniversary at hand, I thought it appropriate to tell the tale of my pirate marriage to the last ex-whatever, you know, the pretend one. This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Memoirs of a Buccaneer: My 30 Years Before the Mast, which is due out in...
