No we aren’t there, though we wish we were. That is Seoul with the gate to the old city wall in 1980 and the big pivot from pirate days to asking Jane to marry and build a family. She was tired of what she was doing and said “Yes,” and then the real magic of […]

Gentle Readers, you already got the Saturday stuff out of you systems, or at least the weekend parts that carried the digits about international crisis de jour with that little fellow in the smudged sweat clothes and the Holy Father apparent recovery from influenza. Accordingly, we will limit this to the apparently recovery of Creative […]

You will hear the truculent words in some form just as we did here in Arlington. They literallly bounced off some of the marble spires here in curious directions. Mr. Trump has always been known as a linguistic stylist, but the small crowd here at our conference table listened in stunned silence to Mr. Zelensky’s […]

Splash gently put aside the large stub of the Monte Cristo cigar he has been nursing through this edition of seasonal change. The tumult is in the air above the warming river. He slid the elegant ceramic ash tray closer to the center of the conference table. He had shrugged Winter’s recent premature retreat a […]

(Vapor, Splash and Vic preparing to provide water to Richmond). There was good news flying around that made everybody laugh. There’s a new child coming into this world just starting where many of us are getting ready to leave. So there was that and there was a lot to talk about. Each one could have […]

“Yike! The State Department Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference Hub, or “R/FIMI,” is still open!” There was pandemonium near the Black Rifle Coffee urn in the Galley. When a quick Saturday production blow-through in the Socotra House Conference Room starts like that it means more work instead of our professional preference. The first question […]

DeMille had a great story about the three bars south of the HQ that got torched, but Legal said stay off for a minute until we know which of the victims groups were responsible for the attacks. Then, the Doc came in to talk to DeMille and left with a sort of determined expression as […]

James Woods is an actor of some repute and well regarded at this end of the building. He did not have a script for one of the most remarkable things shown on the wall of the Conference room at Socotra HQ last night. . He had a nice place in the path of the Ventura […]

It is cold out there. The incident on the Patio brought Security into the picture. Management has a contract with a local man who provides what the contract specifies a “roving patrol” in the hours of darkness, so there is no specific uniformed presence and there may be justification for additional measures, given the other […]