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Captain Stout

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About Me

Professional Irish musician, scallywag, and all around confused man. If you want to know more, go see me at www.porterstout.com. Or email me. Better yet, buy me a Guinness - that goes over well in my book. I have gone by many names, including Captain John Stout, Balthazar Beshalde, King Foraday, King Richard I Lionheart, Friar Tuck, Ian McWooley, and of course, Merlin.
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

A whole lot of people. I could spout off the usual list of movie stars including the hot women like Cameron Diaz, Scarlett Johanson, or Kate Winslet, but that's passe. I would rather meet sophisticated women like Cate Blanchett, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Rachel Weisz. Or I could attempt to be intellectual and say I want to meet the Karl Marx, Salvador Dali, or Leonardo da Vinci, but that's too used. I could appeal to the high-brow politicos and say I want to meet the President, or any of the Supreme Court Justices, but if you know me, you know that fire and gunpowder have bad reactions when mixed.Really, the one person in the whole world I want to meet is the guy who invented Guinness.

My Blog

The Great Lakes Medieval Faire

I have been very quiet about this.  Mostly because my thoughts are so scattered and disordered, but also because I get so frustrated trying to use words for what I believe action is deserved.For years...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:32:00 GMT

My Challenge to You

Today, I am challenging all of you who view this blog.I challenge you to take a moment today or in the next few days, to try something.  For some of you this is no great difficulty, and may even be pa...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:02:00 GMT

Mary Ellen Carter

Stan Rogers was without a doubt one of the most - if not the single most - influential folk singers of the 20th century.  He gave us a legacy we can only hope to fulfill, but one that we can carry on ...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:49:00 GMT

Buy American . . . . .

Ha!  Gotcha.I understand why people haven't bought American Cars in the last decade.  Of course, I try to be a good member of our economy and put our money into our own industry.  In 2001, the very da...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:38:00 GMT

June 29th, 2009

11:34 came and went quietly and without much fuss.   No parades, no cavalcade of flashbulbs popping, and no glitz on the media boards heralded this.There were of course many well wishers and happy gre...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:39:00 GMT

South Bass Island

It's Saturday afternoon, and we are sitting in the house they obtained for the purpose of housing bands at Hooligan's, the weather is nice, the sun is shining, and we just finished our second gig for ...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:28:00 GMT

If I didn't make myself clear . . .

American employers need to get their collective heads out of their asses and stop screening for the perfect little brainless peons and start putting people to work!We should not be subjected to psycho...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:44:00 GMT

Finding Jobs

I miss the days where you wold go fill out an application, turn it in, talk to the manager, have an interview and then get (or not get) a job.Now, you have to fill out an application, then dig up your...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:25:00 GMT

The state of healthcare in our nation

Healthcare.  It's one of the single most talked about subjects in our nation today, especially with the guys in Capitol Hill.President Obama is traversing the land with his healthcare ideas, and the H...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:45:00 GMT

Welcome to the Cold War, Part II

So North Korea tested, for the second time, a nuclear device.  We are told that they are still a long way from a nuclear weapons arsenal, but can I just sayThis scares the shit out of me.I Had thought...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 08:55:00 GMT