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July 14, 2020 Vic Socotra

Marlow’s Alternative Viruses

Author’s Note: Vic, Inspired by your Gonzo Station revisit piece and thanks to tequila and Hunter S Thompson this was written. -Marlow Editor’s Note: I had planned on posting this later in the week, when Marlow’s particular take on public emergency feels right. But times being what they are, it seems appropriate to release today. […]

July 13, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Plague Chronicle Notes — Part XXX — Slow Ride

I just recovered a few more memory fragments from our early plague time days . . . Let’s just say up front that this has been a slow (strange and unpleasant) ride. Well before our city started shutting down in early March, W and I started limiting our contact with the world. That meant us […]

July 12, 2020 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Reconciliation

Editor’s Note: This is going to be a big week. I have two wonderful essays from the irascible Marlow on the nature of divinity and plague, and my great-grandfather’s account of his Grand Tour of Europe back in 1903. It is interesting timing, since they form by happenstance some useful bookends in this truly mad […]

July 11, 2020 Vic Socotra

Back to the Future (Again!)

I am both exhilarated and appalled at the latest project, which is to complete the editing of a couple books I had started while on the way to something else. I enjoyed the daily addition to the stories, and the sundry distractions of life that wrapped itself around longer term issues. I have three or […]

July 10, 2020 Vic Socotra

First Contact

So, it was a stressful week so far. Grace and I packed up and left the farm property. We were both optimistic. The plague seemed to have been back, and it was time to interact with the world again, including a trip to the Dentist after months of erratic closures. I have been with the […]

July 9, 2020 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Plague Chronicle Notes — Part XXIX — Waiting for Godot and Our Federal Tax Refund

As you may have guessed, I come from a strange, if not an odd lot, stock. The members of my family were mostly asthmatics, meat eaters, blatherers, triads, seafarers, nailbiters and the occasional seaport liquid substance abuser. But we’ve always been happy and long lived. The thing that used to keep me alive was the […]

July 7, 2020 Vic Socotra

Syclone as a Barn Find

On the 4th, we had guests in from Arlington, and I was quick to put one of the rambunctious males to work before things started in earnest. I asked for help to close the south side doors to the barn, which somehow got opened. I don’t know how that happened, but I am adamantly opposed […]

July 5, 2020 Vic Socotra

Holiday Vibes

I was so exhausted from grilling and entertaining over the holiday that I thought I would get some sleep last night. The sun is setting these strange days just before nine, and that is when the explosions began to ring out along the farm lane. I was jumpy, either from the prescribed medication or something […]

July 4, 2020 Vic Socotra

Arrias: Battle Streamers

If you ever find yourself in Boston you should make it a point to make your way to Pier 1 of the Charleston Navy Yard and pay a call to the glorious ship stationed there: USS Constitution. As you probably know well, she was one of the first six frigates commissioned by the US government, […]

July 3, 2020 Vic Socotra

With and From, Fact and Truth

It is the day before one that many of us consider a national holiday, and it is a hot sunny good one. There are others who do not consider it so, and are quite shrill about it this year. To me, the blue skies are filled with the roar of WWII rotary engines above the […]

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