Author: Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Hold the mayo-malaise, please

Editor’ Note: We ran this one from Marlow past Legal, who mentioned they did not see clear indications of Article 88 violation, so long as we stipulate on an a priori basis full respect for all offices and officers empowered to have us charged under the UCMJ. They did recommend addition of a Footnote article […]

A Welcome Banter

Splash is usually more alert than the rest of the crew early on, and maintains that status through lunchtime based on the fact that he is a couple cups of coffee ahead of the rest of us. It could be annoying, but there is a productions schedule to run, bills must be paid, and those […]

Running Hot and Cold

Emotional week! It was 7.2 Degrees (F) this morning, the first noted single digit temps this year in Virginia’s rich Piedmont territory. If one does not count the decimal points, anyway. Since the morning chaos over messages and messaging erupted, we have gone up 16.7 degrees. That is the natural world, of course, unlike the […]

Life in the Bubble World

(The latest bounty of nature. The limbs down on the fence are residue of a more severe event). Splash said his brother used to live in Arizona, close enough to Flagstaff for a few bright lights and equidistant to the cliffs that mark the seemingly endless plunge down to the floor of the Grand Canyon. […]

Anniversaries

Today is an anniversary of a demonstration on Capitol Hill. It was a fairly big deal, though not as severe as other historic events in the location which we will address in a moment. But the true significance of this date is the opening to the campaign that will result in the mid-term elections this […]

Short & Sweet!

The Chairman sent one of the Interns down to the Fire Ring this morning to say we were advancing up the list of those without power due to Winter Storm “Frida.” We think that is the name, but after the new back-up generator failed around sundown last night- that would be Monday, for many of […]

Arrias: Universal Truths

Tony loves Maria, but the Sharks hate the Jets. Romeo and Juliet, Hero and Leander, Qays ibn Mulawah and Layal al Amiriya, Abelard and Heloise, Princess Orihime and Hikoboshi; the list goes on. What do they have in common? They are all star-crossed lovers. Some are myth, some are fiction, two are very, painfully, real […]