Author: Vic Socotra

Arrias: Air Bedding

Editor’s Note: There is a lot going on. Some of the other Narrative on the mutable nature of truth will play out this week. Follow the accounts- all of them- and join us in the merry struggle for power. – Vic Reader Comment: “I actually saw an air bedding evolution once. It was on USS […]

Forecasting

(DC demonstration on Saturday. The Presidential motorcade paid a visit). I am writing this morning with a heavy heart. I was wrong in a crucial prediction. Don’t be alarmed. I stand by my previous predictions of a significant Trump win at midnight on election day. I was right. It was not until the votes flipped […]

Life & Island Times: Plague Journal Cut-Ups & Outs

Editor’s Note: Yesterday’s outing on the Mayflower Compact and the layers of indignity in this strange year stimulated Marlow to take a look at the Plague, month by month. It has been interesting for us all. And better than looking at House bill HR-1, which Speaker Pelosi intends to use to bring California to us […]

Extraordinary Layers

(The Mayflower at anchor, 1620). No blast this morning, unless it is the faint echo of something that happened four hundred years ago on a creaky sailing ship in a chill New England fall. The Mayflower. The Compact that identified a company of free people doing something new. Not like that 1619 nonsense designed to […]

Life & Island Times: God for a Day

Editor’s Note: In keeping with this near half-way point in a momentous month, Marlow shares this on Friday the 13th. What could go wrong? -Vic 13 November 2020 God for a Day Author’s note: Yes, more thoughts from our viral incarceration. -Marlow During idle moments under the shadows of this year-long plague, I sometimes mused […]

Swamp Postcard: Aftermath

God, I never thought we would see a spectacle like this. In the aftermath of the strange election, we are seeing court challenges orchestrated through state courts and federal benches. It is exciting to watch this play out! It is a new form of Democracy, right here in America. The media coronation of the new […]

Armistice

Gentle Readers, Some thoughts from a pal on the 11th… Armistice November 11th is now referred to as Veteran’s Day. But it’s worth remembering that it all began as Armistice Day, on the first anniversary of the Armistice of November 11th, 1918, which brought to a close the horrible spectacle of World War I. The […]

Armistice Day and Arlington

After a glorious week of Autumnal beauty, we are back to rain on a special day. I doubt that many schools teach the hypnotic old line about ending the biggest and most destructive conflict in human history. Well, at least until the next one happened. But the thing about The Great War was that it […]

Life & Island Times: B(r)and Loyalty

Editor’s Note: In addition to other news about global pandemics, renowned correspondent Marlow felt it necessary to provide non-pharmaceutical means of compensation. Tomorrow is Veteran’s Day- so we are staying loyal to our brand. – Vic B(r)and Loyalty With one or more vaccines showing huge promise this morning, it’s time to return once again to […]

Point Loma: Useful Idiots

Editor’s Note: There is a lot of excitement in the continuing circus of American politics. You have seen them starting already- favorites for this young week are the delayed announcement of a vaccine to provide 90% protection against the dread scourge of Corona Virus- which has a 99.5% chance of survival for most of the […]