It is Christmas Eve, and the Little Village by the Bay is preparing for the last paroxysm of activity before buttoning up for the holiday tomorrow. I don’t know if that includes putting up the Mad Santa lighted display on top of the Hospital. Every year for as long as I can remember, the […]

I am settling in on the agenda for Day Two of the Holiday Visit. It snowed overnight, not like what you got, but enough to cover the cars and turn the driveway pure white. Oh, crap, I thought, add the snowplow guy to the list of things to be done- Scooby, of Scoopby’s Bottle Shop […]

  My apologies, gentle readers. Alert Socotra followers have noted that the President Millard Fillmore Library continues to be located in Fillmore, Utah, where it has existed peacefully since 1925. It can be visited 10:00 AM to 5:00 weekdays, with morning hours on Saturday. The 13th linear occupant of the Oval Office, and ranked 24th […]

A big shout our to Kelly at the desk of he Super Eight in Sandusky, OH, the gateway to the Lake Erie Islands and the fabulous Cedar Point Amusement Park. She got me the Government Rate, and a room for the night before the first day of winter. She is a pert blonde, my age, […]

“Clag” is what we used to call it in the squadron, and it is waiting for me,” I told Mac. The Admiral had ventured out to Willow in a holiday mood, and he was merry at the prospect of being safe in the local area with his family as Christmas collapsed on us. “What does […]

19 December 2011 The Dear Leader “It was extraordinary the degree to which everything ultimately revolved around this one man.”  –     TIMOTHY GARTON ASH  (A description I read this morning, thinking it was about Kim Chong Il, and then realizing it was about Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright and former President whose eloquent dissections of […]

“Gotta run down to the farm and feed the mail and check the cat…wait…” I looked at the level of white wine in the glass in front of me. “You know what I mean.” It was Friday and work was long in the wake. We didn’t know if the government was going to shut down […]

I stumbled into the kitchen to make the coffee. It had been a perilous journey from the safety of the eiderdown. Something was wrong with my neck- the spasms in my back that made my last trip back from Up North such an adventure last month had diminished, but now reappeared higher up, first on […]

  Never let it be said that The Daily allows its mistakes to fester. Oh, heck, scratch that. Of course we do. Nonetheless, the Staff here at Socotra House Publishing, LLC, took time out from monitoring all aspects of the Continuing Crisis to compile a list of errata from the month that concludes a memorable […]

My pal Muhammed has a father who is on the same road as Raven, only not quite so far down it. He called me up as I was peering out the glass windows of my eighth floor office at the sun sinking into the Arlington heights under thin salmon-colored cirrus clouds. “Yo, Vic,” he said. […]