Author: vicSocotra

More Iran Strikes May Mean Feeding Twenty

Busy morning, Folks!. We just wrapped up Production Meeting, and Miles looked like he’d been standing the mid-watch. The Boys stayed up again as the crisis lurched into a twelfth night of strikes and counter-strikes. Congress is heading home for August recess, but around here the Conference Room may be getting busier instead of quieter. […]

Where Do We Stand?

All right. Just hang on for a second. This is Miles, and I apologize for having Deirdre fill in these last few weeks filled with interesting activity. I’ll tell you about it if things slow down and everyone fills in on what they have been doing. The news this afternoon is that I am turning […]

Afternoon Socotra Product Launch Edition

Editor’s Note: Miles says this counts as news, so we’re running it. This afternoon marks the soft launch of my next project. The working title is Cooking for the Crowd, and it grew out of something I hadn’t expected. It actually started with The Rogues’ Galley, the remarkable compact kitchen Bill Reddig designed for Kelvinator […]

Deirdre’s Origanal Rogues Galley

Hi! Miles said I could take the lead on today’s edition of The Daily. Production has taken my cookbook away. Apparently Cooking With Oil is now “finished,” which means I am forbidden to improve it until the September release. They suggested I stay the hell away from it for a while. I lasted almost fourteen […]

Cooking Without OIl

Hi, Gentle Readers! It’s Deirdre again. I think the machine may actually be right. Yesterday it announced that Cooking With Oil had reached the point where the recipes were mostly finished and what remained was organizing them, polishing them, and making everything look pretty. I wasn’t quite ready to hear that. Somewhere along the way, […]

DEIRDRE’S CORN DOGS IN FAIRFAX

Cooking Smarter Instead of Harder Good evening, Gentle Readers! Well…I lost. The Production Section held a staff meeting this morning and informed me that Cooking With Oil is apparently no longer my problem. They claim the manuscript has escaped into the wild and is now somebody else’s responsibility. I’m not entirely convinced. I had planned […]

Have a Taco Bell in the Olive Garden

OK—I have the chicken thawed and ready to be assembled by some Interns earning extra credit for weekend shift work while the major air campaign enters its sixth cycle of days. Our thoughts go out to everyone involved, along with the sad news that at least two more Americans have been lost to drones launched […]

Cooking With Oil

Hi! It’s Dee. I asked Miles if I could just run the one graphic this morning, since there are no other celebrations in progress. That I am aware of, anyway. That spun out of control immediately with two other ones which made it part of the New Normal and feel quite familiar! The Boys cooked […]

Infrastructure Week Begins

​Chris Bott;​Peter Obrien;​kalmnoll@protonmail.com;​Joe Mazzafro;​JAMES MUELLER;​Philip Eakin;​Vincent Fragomene;​Ed McDaniel;​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Inline image We have largely been concerned with Iran’s instruments of military power. There has been only moderate success in moderating the behavior of the Iranian regime, one which some of us have opposed- mentally and physically-for almost. half century. Today marks the change to something different. […]

Messi & the Archies All Day!

We shared the afternoon with 82-year-old Mick Jagger presiding over one of the most dramatic sporting events most of us have ever watched. I generally don’t pay much attention to what is happening in the Conference Room except to know when the crowd is becoming restless for nourishment. There was a distinctly generational vibe to […]