DeMille had a great story about the three bars south of the HQ that got torched, but Legal said stay off for a minute until we know which of the victims groups were responsible for the attacks. Then, the Doc came in to talk to DeMille and left with a sort of determined expression as […]

James Woods is an actor of some repute and well regarded at this end of the building. He did not have a script for one of the most remarkable things shown on the wall of the Conference room at Socotra HQ last night. . He had a nice place in the path of the Ventura […]

It is cold out there. The incident on the Patio brought Security into the picture. Management has a contract with a local man who provides what the contract specifies a “roving patrol” in the hours of darkness, so there is no specific uniformed presence and there may be justification for additional measures, given the other […]

We are going to actually start the new year when the snow melts here on our version of Cape Guardafui on the Potomac. It is cold enough that what fell on top of what started Monday as ice is now powdery on top and likely to be with us a while. The Creative Section was […]

Well, sort of. It was a general consensus for the people who cycled through the conference table for some of those great small pastries that showed up and the core group that stuck around to run “merge notes” and mash the button. DeMille doesn’t understand platform distribution, so whatever Zoomer might be left gets stuck […]

Nope. No year in review or any of the stuff that would have required the effort to compile some of the astonishing stuff about what will be a pivotal year in a time that will have a name undetermined as yet. It will rival the power of the “Gilded Age” or the “Roaring Twenties” since […]

Socotra House got the news when you did. The reactions to the message were mixed by the age of the ears and the amount of hair over them. And color, if there is any. We could do the general tenor of the response in terms of the American Century, that mythical period since the mid-20th […]

It is a holy morning here in Virginia, and these are some images of a place where sacred events occurred for each of the Three Faiths. In 1990, Vic wanted to see the walls of the first Temple, the Dome of the Rock, and Stones on which the Savior walked among us. A small stone, […]

It’s Christmas Eve’s Eve, so DeMille is attempting to get things wrapped up before things start going all Green and Red and Star-Sparkled tomorrow. There was a trip to the Arrowine Cheese Store over on North Glebe including most of the Creative Section and talk about going south after we heard the talk about the […]