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March 20, 2017 Vic Socotra

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 […]

March 20, 2017 Vic Socotra

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 […]

March 19, 2017 Vic Socotra

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 […]

March 16, 2017 Vic Socotra

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. […]

March 15, 2017 Vic Socotra

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 […]

March 14, 2017 Vic Socotra

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 […]

March 13, 2017 Vic Socotra

Eggs, Milk and Toilet Paper

Legendary local weather guesser Bob Ryan is now retired, but he would be in his element today. From 1980–2010, Bob was the chief meteorologist at Washington NBC affiliate WRC-TV. Before serving as the station’s chief meteorologist for 30 years, he was the first on-air meteorologist for the Today Show. He actually swapped jobs with the […]

March 13, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and the Nuclear Threat

While the nightly news and the major newspapers stir themselves into a frenzy over mostly trivia, real problems continue to fester: North Korea has nuclear weapons. Three administrations (Clinton, Bush, Obama) believed that negotiations and agreements would change the minds of the government in Pyongyang. They were wrong. The leader of North Korea, Kim Jung […]

March 12, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Time Travel

I had thought about entitling today’s piece with some combination of the words spring, forward and suck but decided against it. As expected, we woke up later than normal to discover a dreary and surprisingly cold and windy morning too late to dress for services, so instead went to the local coffee shop on Forsyth […]

March 9, 2017 Vic Socotra

The Medium is the Message (Part 4)

I topped up the tulip glass- close to the last glass- of the remaining bottle of Willow Happy Hour White and walked back to the scene of the séance. I was dialed in, and a pleasant soprano voice came on the line: Karen Anderson, Evidentiary Medium. In my mind I had an image of how […]