The Captain and Tennile AKA "The Avocado Boys" Send Mixed Messages to Brownsville

The Captain and Tennile

Two bloggers, one a recluse in soulless McAllen, the other residing in a self-described palace on Jacaranda Street in Brownsville with a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn by Grove Realty, have quietly slipped into the local blogosphere.

The two bloggers, currently joined at the hip in a mismatched blogging tandem, Robert Sanchez, "The Captain" and Duardo Paz-Martinez, author of a slew of discontinued blogs, take decidedly different approaches in their never-ending search for readers.

Amanda McDonald

"The Captain," writes loquaciously from his palace on Town Resaca, urging tolerance, empathy and more avocado consumption.  With love-filled eyes, he describes his beautiful Scottish queen, Amanda McDonald, the current "love of his life."

A recent Captain's Table article praised outgoing City Manager Charlie Cabler:

"Also, Mr Cabler was always so nice to me and ex wife when I ran for mayor about the signatures that he gave us a chance to seek all correct 100 signatures. I will never forget him greeting us that morning."

Duardo Paz-Martinez

Duardo Paz-Martinez, a petulant, insecure, Elton John look-a-like, pens his seldom read column from somewhere near his late mother's house in McAllen.  He attempts to write about Brownsville from Hidalgo County with acidic criticism of our city and withering diatribe aimed at three of its bloggers.  Here's today's Duardo missile aimed at two Brownsville bloggers:

"We at The Republic believe that Blogger Montoya merely wrote his drama to further advance his well-established hate for Elizondo. In no way was he being a traditional journalist. Indeed, it was as if a blogger was describing a butcher’s capture of a loose goat scheduled for slaughter. It fits much of Montoya’s previous typing on stories in which he is paid to perform his character assassinations."

and this:

For his part, unemployed Blogger Barton was likely up late last night and checked-in on a Mexican border newspaper to get his “where is everybody” posting on yet another shootout in Reynosa, Mexico, roughly 11 miles south of McAllen. He, like Montoya, lives on perception and his instant assessment was that no one had the story. It, however, was on the pages of The McAllen Monitor in its morning edition, and it also was available to anyone logging-on to Channel 4’s website, ValleyCentral.com

Someday soon, Captain Bob, writing his blog out of love for his city, its people and its proximity to the sea, will disconnect from Duardo Paz, a failed blogger, who spews hate at Brownsville and its people, only using the popular Captain to further his discredited agenda.

And Bob, don't let your relationship protective guard down:  Duardo, on the phone with your beloved Amanda for 30 minutes, is not a good thing.