"A Pirate Looks at 40"
Listening to Jimmy Buffet's "A Pirate Looks At 40" back in the 1970's conjured imagery of 40 as being an "old man." The reality of turning 40 has not been so bad.
I originally envisioned my "Mama Likes" porn star name to be something like 'Long Dong Silver' (wishful thinking), but somehow 'Pirate' seems more fitting.
"40 is the new 30", as they say. But with Viagra commercials claiming "60 is the new 50" and Gen Y Facebook pages stating "30 is the new 20", the software designer/deconstructionist in me is led to conclude that "X ξ (X-10)", where X is a decadial birthday (I'm not sure what the symbol "ξ" actually means, but it looks pretty cool and seems like a fitting substitute for "Is the New").
Turning 40 is fortunately absent of the symptom known as "erectile disfunction"...knock on wood (pun intended). It doesn't take much more than regular exercise and some expresso to get me exited over Britney Spears' "Womanizer" video on YouTube.
Having a birthday on New Year's Eve has its obvious benefits when it comes to celebrating. Except for the birthday I spent at parade rest for pissing off an Army sergeant, most every New Year's Eve has been filled with "champagne wishes and caviar dreams."
(Excerpt from Jimmy Buffet's 'A Pirate Looks At 40')
Yes I am a pirate
Two hundred years too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late
"A Pirate Looks at 40"
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