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November 3, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: The Unoffendables

Marlow’s Coastal Empire they enter sit down prepared to argue talk talk talk move their arms jab their fingers they knock on doors ring our phones jam our mail boxes infest our TVs like people with nothing to do when they talk their desperation for approval is without anguish or worry like someone afflicted with […]

November 2, 2016 Vic Socotra

Damage Assessment

Editor’s Note: The following interview with Mac Showers was conducted on 04 May, 2011. We could have had no way of knowing how crazy things were going to get, but there was some material that suggest things have been pretty nuts before, and likely will be again. Nothing as strange as the story of Jack […]

November 1, 2016 Vic Socotra

Tightening the Belt

(Swiss Cottage Tube Stop, Jubilee Line,London. Photo London Transit System.) Gentle Readers: this account was penned in 2010, before anyone could imagine what was coming. At least that is true for me. This interview attempted to deal with the immediate aftermath of WWII, and Mac’s duties in Washington, his marraige to his beloved Billie, and […]

November 1, 2016 Vic Socotra

Life and Island Times: Savannah Statues

Marlow’s Coastal Empire Wednesday last week, a local morning paper ran a brief story about a missing statue of Jesus. The statue was last seen on Monday on the Blessed Sacrament parish campus overlooking Victory Drive (a major East-West thoroughfare in Savannah) close to Waters Avenue. Jesus used to stand tall right next to the […]

October 31, 2016 Vic Socotra

Scrimshaw

(Eddie Layton’s Captain picture. He appears this morning because of something special that happened last night. Bear with me- and photo thanks to Bill) Well, I threatened to do it yesterday, and despite the epic nature of the sports exposure, I am going to do it. I swear- getting up at nine to catch the […]

October 30, 2016 Vic Socotra

Arrian on Current Affairs: Our Unraveling Security

Shia radicals launch missiles at a US Navy destroyer, missiles provided by Iran, probably made in China. North Korea continues development of a nuclear weapon and an ICBM. Russia bombs insurgents in Syria; Russian naval forces return to the Mediterranean; Russian intelligence personnel return to Cuba. China pressures Japan on islands in the East China […]

October 30, 2016 Vic Socotra

Errata and the Way Ahead

Gentle Readers, As you you, this is a rough and tumble game, this blogosphere stuff, and generally speaking I don’t go back and correct minor mistakes in The Daily. You already know that, too, so I don’t need to elaborate though of course I will. Endless revisions of this ephemeral stuff is the digital equivalent […]

October 29, 2016 Vic Socotra

City of Night

Author’s Note: Point Loma is back! He added this note of explanation for his absence: “For all of my fans out there (okay, both of you, and you know who you are you guilty bastards), I must apologize for my extended absence from the Socotra sagas. This is in not entirely sloth on my part, […]

October 28, 2016 Vic Socotra

Cavemen’s Legacy

Cavemen’s Legacy There is in us a power, We feel it when we gather Around the fire, sharing meat and stories, rather Than staring at the sky Alone, this power in us Warms, protects, it is why We endure, even thrive, In the unforgiving place Where we must survive. copyright J.P.N. | Poetry, Etc., From […]