Author: Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Loose Cannons

Another of America’s hidden cannons broke its moorings suddenly this past week becoming a strange, supernatural beast. An 18 year old suddenly was transformed into a monstrous armored loose cannon. His young bullied smallishness belied his billiard-ball moves, as he rocked and rolled with his irregular internal rotating, pitching, and yawing. Before he embarked on […]

D & J south sea treasures

Editor’s Note: We got something precious in the inbound traffic this morning. Well, there was more than that and it reflected the collision in currents in which we all sail. Our shipmate Marlow rang in from his Coastal Empire with a cautionary and lyrical allegory on social and nautical consequences of large things carooming with […]

Life & Island Times: TYFYS

Editor’s Note: This is a holiday weekend that has nuance. It is solemn remembrance in part, and the start of the summer season for most. Marlow takes a look at a now-common greeting in the context of his time. If you had a ‘draft number’ in your memory, you will share some of them. – […]

The Slide On In

So here we are. A major holiday is impending, one that used to be a bigger day than rotating what is appropriate to wear in what marked “winter” and “summer” clothing. Should the occasion arise, the Writer’s Section will drag the old seersucker out of the closet. Our Shipmate Marlow has some thoughts about Memorial […]

Weather Report: A Storm of Horror

We were going to make the usual attempt at some commentary on the events of the week. There are several of significance. We did the research and were ready to present the developments in complex, evolving and potentially dangerous situations. They span the globe, across broad oceans from Ukraine to India. That effort was left […]

Managing the Train Wreck

Doing the weekly forecast- the Weather Report- is normally fun with the crowd from the Writer’s Section at Refuge Farm. It includes a lot of banter about real truths that are no longer permitted for public release. Amanda is the company attorney, and she is just back from sequestration from one or more of the […]

Arrias:Dr. Strangelove and the Man With No Name

The Clint Eastwood classic “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” ends with a three-way duel. Of course, there is no way to win a “three-way duel” except to cheat. Which is all part of the plot… It also mirrors where the US finds itself. The current national security discussion in the US seems to […]