Author: Vic Socotra

Point Loma: Blues on the Lagoon

The thing about the skipper of the TR getting relieved is really chapping my ass. so i have to write an an allegory about that since i’m so pissed off at would-be SECNAV Modly and his fellow cast of OPNAV fools. it is way past time to keep treating naval operators as would-be criminals, and […]

Stupid Plastic Shoes

Editor’s Note: I am in an undisclosed location in Virginia’s historic and lovely Northern Neck. I am working off the iPad and phone, and neither gives me much flexibility. I will have some observations about the trip, which will eventually follow the Historyland Highway, originally cut through the brush by the legendary planter King Carter […]

The Red Dog

Editor’s Note: We are taking a brief break from a longer break, but this struck me as right for the upside-down year. I have been watching too many Hallmark movies and am now fully ready to put up the holiday lights. It is literally the first time in my life that I feel disconnected to […]

Life & Island Times: More Plague Chronicle Notes

Yesterday morning we sat with our morning coffees overlooking the back of the side garden. Out of the grey skies came an unpredicted brief rain shower. This brief imprisonment indoors was pleasant as it possessed a more tender naturalness than this extraordinary plague, shelter-in-place quarantine has had in store for us. Our Hostess City in […]

Swamp Postcard: Being Sick in the Time of Plague

I am not going to drive you bonkers with a description of what it is like to have three months razored out of your stream of life as the world collectively threatens to crumble. It is an interesting process, is all I will offer. I have found that if you sprinkle the crackling dreams with […]

Arrias: Blanche Dubois and COVID 19

“Adventures are not all pony rides in May sunshine.” So JRR Tolkien warned Bilbo Baggins – and the rest of us – early in “The Hobbit.” Like Friendships, and Marriages and everything else, relationships are easy when the sun is shining, when, as the poet Robert Browning would tell us: “God’s in his heaven, all’s […]

Life & Island Times: Season of the Sick

As the calendar turned to 2020, the world’s inhabitants were for the most part playful and joyfully hopping around. Then bit by bit over two months, they turned grumpy and then scared. This current contagion started off confined to a far-off, unknown place called Wuhan. Most, if not all, of the rest of us, were […]

Life & Island Times: Zombie Herd Cull

Herd culling victim The herd was culled in dramatic fashion just before today’s lottery style delegate award process. Zombie candidates dropped like flies. Several flew themselves to Texas to swear their fealty and submit their job applications to the hopeful moderate candidate of best standing. Some pundits called it another standard mess of cuttin’, smashin’, […]