Author: Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Editor’s Note: Marlow is dead on this morning. Two men in a truck are bringing the remnants of Big Pink life down to the farm this morning, to help fill up a couple corners of the Loading Dock area with miscellany. The Ch-ch-ch-changes are happening here. Some of the debris included two manuscripts of books […]

Time Travel

(This is a somewhat deformed image captured from the weather deck of the USS Midway (CV-41) in 1978 or 1979. That I was able to capture it suggests the ship was orbiting somewhere awaiting tug support to enter port. It would likely have have been outside Yokosuka or Subic Bay, but I can’t tell you […]

Arrias: Fire, Fire, Fire!

          Fires happen on ships. And they can be quite destructive. There have been a number of major fires on aircraft carriers that were nearly catastrophic; Oriskany (1953), Bennington (1955), Oriskany (1966), Forrestal (1967), Enterprise (1969), Constellation (1988). And, while not technically an aircraft carrier, Bonhomme Richard last year. The distinction is that in all the cases except one, the ships returned to operational status in less […]

Coastal Empire Update

Editor’s Note: Marlow was stimulated by a rumination on movement here in the Piedmont. There is some of that at Refuge Farm, mostly concerned with re-allocating assorted junk from one storage location in a pleasant urban area to another pleasant one in a setting more rural and benign. There is plenty to talk about this week, […]

Life & Island Times: Along the Marsh Edges

August 1, 2021   Along the Marsh Edges of the Coastal EmpireCoastal Empire     To avoid the terrors of the night with its impenetrable shadows of darkness, we ended our back country motorcar adventuring in the Empire’s marshlands during the plague well before the moon’s rise and the sun’s fall.   Not even powerful […]

Confusion

The Writer’s Section is not confused this morning. They have abandoned that state in order to watch mine with clarity. Cause for that is clear. The contents of the Condo are arriving slowly down at Refuge Farm, box by anonymous box. Sorting them into the Three Piles is well underway. You know the piles. One, […]