Author: Vic Socotra

Two Times

We could talk about the Big Storm down in Florida. Or maybe who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines up in the Baltic. Instead, we have often become a little hysterical over the arbitrary changes to our language. External Imposition! It is irritating since it comes and goes based on political need. You may have […]

Olongapo Outerwear

We mentioned the “downsizing” thing the other day. We are spending real cash to do it. Not ours, of course. It is the Chairman’s cash, which he can justify by figuring the real total cost of hiring help to get rid of stuff. That will open up space, anyway. And some of the objects emerging […]

Life & Island Times: Red Hotrod High Speed Driver

I’m a red hotrod high speed driver Screaming on down the road I’m a red hotrod high speed driver Screaming on down the road Goin a 120 down to Darien Trying to lighten my load I‘m a red hotrod high speed driver Runnin on down the state line I’m a red hotrod high speed driver […]

Life & Island Times: No People on the Streets

26 September 2022 Editor’s Note: Here’s a draft of something Marlow typed back in 2017. Then, the pudgy, little big rocket man of Asia was making disturbing noises about something existential. We talked about one of the Earth’s true Big Rocket Men making similar serious noises this week, the ones about “not bluffing” about a […]

Cause and Effect

The challenges to the staff who write The Daily are rising. You know the deal. It is possible that reference even to the most common of items or current topics could trip an algorithm some place with a lot of boxes. Make you pop up on some list of people who should get a visit […]

Commemorative Fly By

(We had a joyful aviation-related show this morning shortly after dawn. It amounted to a cross section of many of the local fliers in a Commemorative Capitol Wing fly-by at Refuge Farm. The humans were active yesterday in a precise flight, the old piston engines snarling and whining as throttles were adjusted to maintain course […]

Hard Copy America

(This image- a “photograph”- surfaced the other day from a tall stack discovered in the Chairman’s debris in the Barn. The image is on shiny paper, produced by a chemical reaction in a tank of noxious fluids. Research indicates the figures are Lenore and George Romney, left and center, and W.E. Reddig, who worked as […]

Voting, Wet AND Dry

Yeah, we are aware that tomorrow is the day, not today, but there are nearly a dozen of us and this will take some coordination. That is one of the reasons we had to get the “check engine” light looked at on the German SUV- the Panzer- since for comfort and elegance we did not […]

Mixed Messages

(Soviet Kirov Cruiser image used in campaign ad celebrating Navy’s 247th). This is one of those delightful mornings of seasonal change- a slight edge to the dawn in the upper thirties as the sun rises, promising to warm up through the course of the day to something right in the middle edge of comfort. “77” […]

Warning Light

The Panzer hadn’t been fired up in the weeks devoted to- what is the term these days? “Transitory?” health issues. The crew at the Writer’s Circle had decided to fire it up to see if there were still dangerous fossil fuels sufficient to operate the thing and avoid having to put more in the tank […]