Author: Vic Socotra

The Big Four-Oh

24 March 2017 The Big Four-Oh Screen Shot 2017-03-24 at 1.20.58 PM.png Gentle Readers, I would be remiss if I did not correct a tiny mistake in the story yesterday, the one about Marlow’s 68th anniversary on the planet. Marlow is a real human being- and by that I mean an author whose musings (along […]

Life & Island Times: 68: Skin Shedding

Today’s email inbox contained the above best wishes from one of the medical community’s specialists who have attended my needs. With the ongoing health care follies inside our nation’s imperial city, it should have made me a bit uncomfortable. Surprisingly, I am not yet uncomfortable despite turning 68 today. In snake terms, I have shed […]

The Medium is the Message

Editor’s note: We know, we know, the Staff of the Daily Socotra has not gone into summer re-runs, though it did turn out this way with the Medium series. I had to go back and put it all back together as the single story that it really is. I also wanted to get Karen a […]

PEBD

I ran across my old Navy finance jacket the other day as I start the painful process of preparing to move. Again. Where did all this crap come from? I wondered if I needed to shred the old paystubs that I kept in chronological order with the two metal tangs inserted through the two holes […]

Old House Birthday

We are going to break format this morning. It was a heady St. Patrick’s Day weekend as the crowd moved from Car Bombs at The Front Page and decamped to Refuge Farm for some wine and spirits tasting at the fabulous Old House Winery and Distillery. The weather was perfect, the company grand, and now […]

Arrias on Politics: China and North Korea

China, that is, the ruling elite in Beijing, isn’t helping things. Talking heads can be heard opining that the only way to solve the mess in North Korea is with China’s help. But, the truth is a bit more complicated. Beijing wants to carve out a larger piece of the pie (the world). How big […]

Car Bombs

The event came about due to a text from Heather. I am not blaming her, though. We were all complicit and there is no one to blame. She innocently wondered whether the Usual Suspects would be at The Front Page to enjoy a few Irish Car Bombs on the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day, when […]

The Big Thaw

It was quite the week for weather, with snow and ice shutting things down effectively on Tuesday. It was not nearly as bad as it could be, and it appears those who knew that fact didn’t want to confuse us with the truth, and let the warning stand as the winds and snow came in. […]

Navy Coffee

Gentle Readers, I whined a bit yesterday about the slow defeat inflicted on us all by the curse of entropy. There were valid reasons for my complaint, and I will not vent about the scandal that is parading one of our pals through the public spotlight. It is of a piece with the disastrous maintenance […]

The Other Shoe

I apologize for not being more engaged the last couple months. I am determined to complete the work on the Mac Showers book, and wondering if I will ever have the time to get to the projects beyond that. I need to buy some of that most precious commodity a human being has. There have […]