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About Me

.. PyrateAtLarge
Yahoo: blackfoxofde

I'm the publisher of two successful magazines: The Pyrates Way magazine, America's Premiere Pirate Magazine AND Faire Magazine, The Renaissance Magazine for Enthusiasts. We offer a museum-quality full-color, 64-page tomes full of everything a pirate or Rennie could want. Give us a quick look at www.pyratesway.com or www.fairemagazine.com and find yourself so overwhelmed that ye must subscribe immediately!

Myspace Layouts at Pimp-My-Profile.com / Pirate ship - Image Hosting

My Interests

World of Warcraft Addict (Argent Dawn, Alliance, Lvl 54 Rogue: Stevean), All things Piratical/Pyratical (i.e. pirates), Renaissance Faires and Festivals especially Maryland (www.friendsofmdrf.org) , Pennsylvania, and New York. Pirates, medieval things, Tudor history, US Navy, eeeesh I could go on and on and if you let me, I will!

Music:

Styx, Salt Sea Pirates, Beatles, Rolling Stones, O'Danny Girls, The Pyrates Royale

Movies:

The Court Jester, Goodfellas, Batman (1989), Jaws, LOTR, Star Wars, Elizabeth, Pulp Fiction, any "D" Horror Films and of course the classic Universal monster movies!

Television:

Battlestar Galactica, NCIS, Simpsons, Surface, ALF, Star Trek (in any form), SciFi Channel, History Channel, Biography Channel, and I'm a News Junkie

Books:

Any books on Pirates, English Medieval or Renaissance, the Plague and colonial U.S. Navy

Heroes:

"It is better to be a commander than a common man, since I have dipped my hands in muddy water and must be a Pirate." --- Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts

My Blog

An incredible Saturday of stuff

Yesterday, I rolled out of bed at 7a.m.. . .showered. . .shaved. . . put on my long green/black striped socks. . .medieval moccasins, thick linen white shirt with the deer-antler buttons that says "Go...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:56:00 PST

SIX issues of The Pyrates Way magazine per year?

Starting with the Spring Issue of 2009 The Pyrates Way will be coming at you every other month! We've been getting letters for a year asking for us to grow in either page count or more often. People...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:31:00 PST

MDRF video - music by Great Big Sea

I put this little thing together from a few (over 800) photos from The Maryland Renaissance Festival that I had laying around!MDRF Through My Eyes...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:50:00 PST

Celtic Fling Tomorrow!!!

Got the ol' US Navy tartan ironed, the the kilt's ready. . .as tomorrow marks the opening of our festival season with PARF's Celtic Fling!!!http://www.parenfaire.com/outdoor/CelticFling/Celtic fling.ht...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:46:00 PST

Ahhhh the lyfe of a pyrate

It's Memorial Day and I'm working. . . getting last minute ad requests together for merchants. After three issues, this whole routine is getting easy (finally) and even some big ad buyers (a few rum ...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Mon, 28 May 2007 08:59:00 PST

Memorial Day weekend. . .and working all weekend

One thing about working from home. . . . sometimes you work all weekend or holidays to make up for your lack of common sense regarding your work discipline (i.e. getting behind with a deadline loomin...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Sat, 26 May 2007 02:41:00 PST

I'm 45 goddamnit

As of today I'm 45 years old and if I died right now, what would there be to remember me? Two wonderful kids to carry my stories. A grieving widow and ex-wife-widow who would join in the celebration...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:04:00 PST

Satire is being destroyed by Society. . .and USA Today

The Superbowl this year was the third-most watched ever. With that kind of popularity the PC police went on a rampage. . .about. . . commercials?" According to USA TODAY (http://www.usatoday.com/money...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:54:00 PST

MDRF & the MD/AA Co. Alcohol codes

We had a note about alcohol use in the parking lot at MDRF on our FriendsofMDRF.org bulletin board from a playtron: "Management has never said anything or posted anything about it being in the parking...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:00:00 PST

Five Years without a Mom

Tomorrow is Mother's Day. I ordered a dozen rose-cookies for my ex wife, the mother of my kids, with a love note from the kids to her. I'm working on a special card for Cyn with the paw prints of al...
Posted by Sir Black Fox on Sun, 14 May 2006 04:11:00 PST