February 13, 2011
Mr. Lincoln’s Washington
Civil War remnants in the Capital and the story of Jubal Early’s last desperate assault (from the North!).
February 13, 2011
Snake Ranch Papers, Volume 1
The first of five aggregations of letters from Korea 1in 1980, each letter a mini-story Vic has been toting around for the last 30 years.
February 13, 2011
Oklahoma is OK
I had the opportunity to meet a former Governor of the Sooner State a couple months ago. He is a legitimately great american. He had just begun his term when that nutcase Tim McVey slaughtered the innovents at the ALfred P. Murrah Building in OK City. The Governor – he bristled when I called him […]
January 31, 2011
Beating the Spread
(A new Chrysler, or something, at the DC Car Show. Photo Socotra.) I should have been shopping this weekend, getting ready to put out a spread for the Superbowl, but I goofed off and went to the movies and then the Car Show down at the Convention Center. After the profound depth of anger at […]
January 30, 2011
Pitchforks and Torches
(Crowd leaving the Hoffman 22 Cineplex in Alexandria yesterday after watching the documentary “Inside Job.”) I was going to share a couple really good pre-Superbowl recipes with you this morning. I have a nice comfortable story in the can so I can go to the Car Show down at the Convention Center this morning and […]
January 28, 2011
What the Postman Brings
What the Postman Brings (Gladys Horton as a teen. Photo Getty Images.) I would rather think about the musical legacy of Gladys Horton, the lead singer of the Marvelettes who charted the first of the MoTown hits when I was just beginning to think about things beyond my grade school, and who made Detroit […]