http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/ thepirateinthecity's Blog en-us © 02:47:51 Greasy.com All rights reserved. Tue, Dec 02:47:51 2 GMT 30 http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/man_steel.html A lot of my friends have an incorrect impression of me. They seem to think that I am a rock, that things just bounce off of me because I always maintain an even keel. While I may seem like a strong person, which I really am, I am not made out of stone. I hurt. I have emotions. I feel mentally exhausted by the turmoil in my life right now. I dumped my boyfriend yesterday, the day before Thanksgiving. When I confronted him with something I learned he could not answer me. He just sat there on ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/man_steel.html#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:50:10 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/family.html This my Aunt Frances, my Uncle Jake, my Mom and My aunt Margaret. This is me and my cousins: Jake Jr., Monica, me, Marlene, Darlene and Mona http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/family.html#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:59:10 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/sitting_dead.html I am home from the wars. Not really, I am back home in Houston having returned from my Aunt's funeral. It was weird. Something has happened since the last time we were all together. Everyone got old. I am not one of the kids any longer. I am now one of the "Uncles". Cousins really but we always call our cousins kids nieces and nephews. My aunts and uncles are the grandparents now. It was great seeing all of my cousins, aunts, uncles and their families. Us kids always had a great time toget ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/sitting_dead.html#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:50:19 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/jesse_jesse_84.html There was an old "Bloom County" carton where Milo and Binkley were trying to decide who the Meadow Party candidate for President would be. The first suggestion was Jesse Helms. The response was, "We will alienate half the population". The next suggestion was Jesse Jackson. The response then was. "We will alienate the other half!" Then they decided, "Why not alienate everyone! Jesse and Jesse in '84!" I run the risk of doing that now. I could very possibly alienating everyone. So here is my ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/jesse_jesse_84.html#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:54:29 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/corners_mind.html "If a man has the strength to dream, he can redeem his soul and fly" - Elvis Presley About 10 O'clock this morning, my phone rang. I saw from the caller ID it was my mom. I knew what the call was before I even answered it. I answered anyway. Mom: Aunt Helen just passed away. Me: When? Mom: Monica just called me. My mom's sister, Helen, had a heart attack a week ago. She had been on life support until last Thursday when the family removed her from it. She fought until this morning and she p ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/corners_mind.html#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:55:08 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/opinion_prop.html The Gay community has been up in arms since Proposition 8 passed in California. Most gay voters believed the influx of never before seen votes that President-Elect Obama brought to this election would help their cause. I mean come on, would a minority group like the blacks really vote for the oppression of another group after what they endured? Apparently so, since the African-American votes on Proposition 8 exceeded 70% for. Gay political leaders are shocked that this happened and all I c ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/opinion_prop.html#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:55:01 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/doctors_say_marrow_transplant.html By PATRICK McGROARTY, Associated Press Writer - Thu Nov 13, 3:04 AM PST BERLIN - An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said. While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/doctors_say_marrow_transplant.html#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:28:44 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/gay_marriages_set_wednesday_connecticut.html By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Connecticut state Rep. Beth Bye and Tracey Wilson hope to become the first gay couple to marry legally in their town of West Hartford on Wednesday. For Wilson, it's both a personal and professional milestone. She's the town's historian. "She'd love to be the first one in town," joked Bye, who spent hours as a lawmaker listening to testimony on the marriage issue in 2007. She was a member of the Judiciary Committee which a ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/gay_marriages_set_wednesday_connecticut.html#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:40:17 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/activists_rethink_tactics.html By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER – 37 mins ago The fight over gay marriage is not over in California, or anywhere else in the U.S. Street protests dragged into the weekend in Los Angeles and other Golden State cities, and legal challenges are already asking the California Supreme Court to overturn the Nov. 4 statewide vote that made same-sex marriage in California not only illegal but unconstitutional. On Sunday, gay-marriage supporters got an unexpected boost from Republican governor Arnold S ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/activists_rethink_tactics.html#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:51:03 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/schwarzenegger_tells_backers.html The governor expresses hope that Proposition 8 would be overturned as protesters continue to march outside churches across California. By Michael Rothfeld and Victoria Kim 2:26 PM PST, November 9, 2008 Reporting from Sacramento and Pasadena -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today expressed hope that the California Supreme Court would overturn Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage. He also predicted that the 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who have already married ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/schwarzenegger_tells_backers.html#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:58:04 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/need_2.html Please submit your name ideas for my political action committee. http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/need_2.html#comments Fri, 7 Nov 2008 01:17:49 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/choices.html Friends, neighbors, countrymen lend me your ear... I am writing to you today from my gorgeous suite high atop the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. I have been here since Sunday playing in the Deep Stack Extravaganza IV. I have done okay. I actually won one of the satellite events and monied in one of the others. I held my own in the main event but finished out of the money. As you all of seen on the news by now the election returns are in and the United States of Americ ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/choices.html#comments Wed, 5 Nov 2008 17:04:44 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/went_27_seconds_bull_named_fu.html Not really. There have been a few emails about the last video posted and the change in my avatar to the grim reaper. I wasn't going to write about this but I need to process what is going on. And I guess this is as good a place as any. Besides, it doesn't cost me $150 an hour. I am ill. The doctors aren't certain why as yet. The general term is Congestive Heart Failure. What that means is that fluid congestion in my chest cavity is impairing my heart function. They don't know why. Last wee ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/went_27_seconds_bull_named_fu.html#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:28:16 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/1224314240.html http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/1224314240.html#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:17:20 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/need_break.html I am tired of all of it, I think I have burnout. I can't tell you the last time I turned on the TV, oh, wait, LSU-Miss St. on Saturday. If I hear one more politician whine about how we absolutely must bailout the dumbass bankers that decided it would be good business to lend people money for mortgages they couldn't afford, I am going to scream. I have hurricane fatigue. It took two weeks for me to get power back. The State of Texas is not telling anyone want really happened in Galveston, C ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/need_break.html#comments Thu, 2 Oct 2008 06:23:15 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/happens_austin__.html Stays in Austin. I have power and am going home. 13 Nights in a hotel. 6 guys. 3 bottles of 18 year old Macallan. 1 day on the lake. 1 negative HIV test 3 pints of ice cream 2 movies 5 new jobs 3 new customers 2 new friends 1 broken heart http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/happens_austin__.html#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:47:33 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/economy_stupid.html Hello all. First a quick update. I am still in a hotel in Austin. There is still no power at my house. I wish it would come back on because I am tiring of the hotel life. I guess it has been 11 days since the storm. I am writing today about something I have mentioned before in other blogs on other sites. basically, it is about the economy. For years, people have thought the economy was great because the amount of money changing hands was making investors lots of money. As many of you see n ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/economy_stupid.html#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:32:32 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/safe_harbor_pirate.html Hello all. I weathered the storm. Sort of. I left Houston this afternoon and have taken refuge in another harbor, Austin. Ike devastated my neighborhood. It was much worse around my neighborhood than some of the surrounding ones. Maybe we had a tornado, I am not certain. I had power until about 4 AM Saturday morning. The eye of the storm passed directly through my area. It was a wild night. As of this afternoon, clean up has barely begun and I did not see any Centerpoint Energy trucks work ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/safe_harbor_pirate.html#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:19:13 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/houston_weather_update.html Ike is making landfall with 110 mph winds. A storm surge of 20' is expected. As of now, we still have power. However, Centerpoint energy reports 725,000 customers without power right now. It is increasing as we speak. Peanutsmom and M are in Katy, Texas but they lost power about 7PM. It is beginning to rain. I live about 25 miles north of Downtown. I am doing well. I have plenty of Single Malt. I will update as I can. The storm is on a track to go right through downtown Houston. In 1983, w ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/houston_weather_update.html#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:34:32 GMT http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/dream.html I don't remember hardly any of my dreams. I don't know why. I am certain that I have them. Everyone does. Last night, I had a very unusual dream. It was so unusual it almost seemed real. In a few past blogs, maybe not such much here but on my other blogs in the past, I have mentioned a guy named R. R and I were friends as teenagers. He was the first guy I ever had sex with. We were together for a long time. We lost touch after a while and a couple of years ago I decided to try and find him ... http://greasy.com/thepirateinthecity/dream.html#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:59:02 GMT