Author: Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Death Arrived on Time

Editor’s Note: Traditional Disclaimer: This is a touching tribute to friendship from Marlow, who is a real live human being. – Vic Death Arrived on Time Death arrived on time this past Tuesday morning. It was easier than we thought it would have been. Ned had been suffering from congestive heart failure for several years; […]

Life & Island Times: March for Science

Editor’s Note: Standard disclaimer applies. Marlow’s voice is his own. – Vic March for Science W and I were taking in the annual hidden garden tour of old town Savannah yesterday, when the Hostess City’s March for Science shambled past us. Not much science, no chanting. science celebrating or politics was in evidence. Even the […]

Correcting the Record

It was a hell of a weekend. Rain all day yesterday, not a bad thing, we need it, but it seemed to be in keeping for the big March for Science that has us all excited. I think it was Earth Day as well, and I would have worn my starched white Lab Coat, but […]

Rus Uz

It is raining in Arlington this morning and generally too crappy to go outside and do anything more than drink coffee and look at the puddles. That was not the case last night, in which the Willow Refugees struck out in a bold new direction- a clear step toward “getting in touch with our inner […]

Life & Island Times: What It Was Wasn’t Exactly Clear

Editor’s Note: Marlow brings back some memories from a quarter century ago. Not good ones. We all share them, though. Last night there was the monthly gathering of the tribe down in Old Town at the Sonoma Cellars wine bar. Our missing comrades could have been there had they made other choices. – Vic April […]

Arrias on Politics: North Korea’s Weapons: Whose Money?

Editor’s Note: It is Easter Sunday, a day of joy throughout Christendom for the resurrection of the Risen Christ. Have the very best holiday possible! And remember, Arrias is a real person, not the Easter Bunny. – Vic North Korea’s Weapons: Whose Money? They held a parade in Pyongyang on Saturday… It’s worth searching the […]

Life & Island Times: Strong Letter To Follow

Editor’s Note: Marlow is a real live human being. Really. -Vic Author’s Note: This is not something I wanted to share, let alone post, during Holy Week. So, I withheld it for the coming week. True story nonetheless. – Marlow Strong Letter To Follow I found a single day’s correspondence I had had with various […]

Life & Island Times: El Dorado

Editor’s Note: Marlow is his own man. Like, totally. – The Editorial Board El Dorado I found one of my old state highway maps from a cross country trip in 2005. It prompted this memory: no chance at all, completely cut off from eastern imperial cities, I was a middle aged man riding my motorcycle […]

Blue Eighty-Two

(Mother of all Bombs. It is not Halloween, so it did not come in pumpkin colors this morning). Well, they did it yesterday morning, their time, and if it just so happened that the largest non-nuclear air-dropped bomb in the world was dropped from a specially configured C-130 near a tunnel and bunker complex in […]