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About Me

This here be Shanghai Brown. I am happily wedded to Delphine (Byzantine iconographer and teacher), and I'm a proud stepfather to three incredible human beings - Liam, Annelise & Kieran, whom I always will love as my own, probably more.On August 31, 2006, we lost Kieran, and our lives will never be the same again. Thank you to all of you for your kindness and love during this time, and please keep Kieran, our family and his friends in your prayers.Delphine and I are currently "on the beach" in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree (north of Palm Springs), in California, with Ace, the tuxedo cat Kieran picked out for us many years ago. She's too big now to ride on my shoulders, but she still purrs like crazy.I be captain of a pirate jam band by the name of There Be Pirates! (you can visit our site on My Space too at www.myspace.com/therebepirates); and I'm also an itinerant shantyman; a singer of Irish and sea music; publisher/executive editor of The Sun Runner Magazine (www.thesunrunner.com), and a freelance writer for other magazines, newspapers and websites. I was recently published in a Thai travel magazine and Route 66 Magazine. There Be Pirates! has released arrggghhhh first CD, Drink & the Devil, which is getting rave reviews. We arrgghhh also getting bookings for Pyrate Week in New Orleans, and SeaFest in Scarborough, England. Help send a pirate to England - buy a copy of Drink & the Devil at http://kunaki.com/msales.asp?PublisherId=116089.I love the desert, and I'm building The Sun Runner into a regional desert-wide publication. There are lots of great people out here, and we'll never run out of places to explore.Life's not been easy on a lot of folks lately, but we're doing the best we can. You can be sure that we're grateful for our family and friends.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

In no particular order, living & dead: Jimmy Buffett, Mark Twain, Tonio K, Blackbeard, Sir Francis Drake, Calico Jack Rackham, George MacDonald Fraser, George Francis "Citizen" Train, Herman Melville, Hunter S. Thompson, Padre Hidalgo, Bishop Bartolome de las Casas, J.R.R. Tolkein, Lord Admiral Nelson, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Homer, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Tom Holt, Joan de Arc, Alexander the Great, Vincent Van Gogh, Tristan Jones, Patrick O'Brian, Napoleon, John Bonham, Keith Moon, Anne Bonny & Mary Read, Julius Ceasar (along with Brutus & co.), William Shakespeare, Steve Goodman, Woody Guthrie (and Arlo too - seen him, never met him, though he was married for two weeks to my editor Vickie), Richard the Lionhearted, Saladin, John the Baptist, Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Helen of Troy, Chris Knight, Paul Revere, Dewey Lambdin, Patrick O'Brian, Errol Flynn, Flashman, Mom, Grandmoose, and so many more. I'd like to meet Noah Purifoy again. We never got to finish our conversation. And I know I'll meet Kieran, my mother, and all the other loved ones we've lost, once again.

My Blog

There Be Pirates! new CD, Drink & the Devil, now available

Ahoy there mates, We humble musickal pirates of There Be Pirates! wanted to be lettin' ye know that arrggghhh CD, Drink & the Devil, featuring 13 rollicking tracks of swashbuckling musickal advent...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:41:00 GMT

Phoenix Project West

As many of you know, Delphine & I launched Phoenix Project West last fall as an effort through the non-profit U.S. Wounded Soldiers Foundation to bring their Phoenix Project retreats for combat ve...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:46:00 GMT

Doldrums

For those of you who aren't familiar with sailing, the doldrums are a place out at sea where the wind drops to nothing, and the only thing moving you along is a slight current. Sometimes, waitin...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:22:00 GMT

Kieran's 40 day memorial

Today was Kieran's 40 day memorial service. We had about half a dozen friends join us at St. George Orthodox Church today in Palm Desert for liturgy and the memorial. During the liturgy th...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:41:00 GMT

Remembering

This week, I had someone tell me that they hope I forgot about all the things that are causing us pain soon. I told them that is my greatest fear - that I will forget. I never want to forget Kie...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:40:00 GMT

A challenging day

Today is challenging on two levels: It is the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and the first day that Delphine and I go back to work since Kieran's death. Delphine's class - and others - made her card...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:39:00 GMT

Finding the good through the bad

I just got off the phone with Iggy, Kieran's uncle in Colorado Springs. He returned from Kieran's funeral inspired by his life and values, and is now trying to implement them in his own. H...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:30:00 GMT

Thank you Texas!

I just want to say thank you to all of Kieran's friends in Texas for being there for him - and us - this past week. His death was a horrible tragedy, but the love and kindness you shared helped ...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:52:00 GMT