Author: vicSocotra

Fireworks at Mount Rushmore!

Time: 1:00 PM Park Opens 4:00 PM Events Begin 10:00 PM events conclude 9 hours duration Ticket holders can enter the park beginning at 1 pm. The special events are currently scheduled to begin at 4 pm and conclude around 10 pm. It will be available via livestream on the Travel South Dakota Website, with […]

Who Let the Dogs Out?

332 S Main St, Shenandoah, PA 17976 Phone +1 570 462 1263 We don’t claim to know what you are cooking up this week but it is the best grilling conditions of the season so far. The Boys have the Russell ctovetop set up on the big patio on the west side of the building. […]

On the Second

So, if you want to get technical, today is Independence Day. We know, we know. This is not an excuse to skip the Production Meeting or do anything actually enjoyable on this Heat Dome Holiday. We don’t know precisely what the weather was like in Virginia for their holiday week long ago. We do know […]

Wedge One

This was written on a day of some minor significance. It was April Fools, first of that month, and we were getting ready for summer. Not quite the same this morning. Back then, the cherry blossoms were coming out around the Tidal Basin, across the placid Potomac from the grand old wreck of a building […]

Arrias: Petite Faerie

Green giants wrapped in cloaks of gray, More than a hundred feet tall, A still morning, silently they stand, Listening to the cicadas call. A happy brown dog and a petite faerie Skip along, they greet the dawn, She laughs and sings as the puppy barks, The Muse dancing on a dew-covered lawn… One by […]

Nyali Beach

Editor’s Note: The nature of the world is in change. This item first appeared in the Socotra Daily in the summer of 1979 in a place called “Kenya.” See what you think… – Vic Mombasa, Kenya Nyali Beach We lurch away from the Fleet Landing and the crowds get thicker as the people smell American […]

ATL Barbie & Relations in the Public Square

The sun is out for the first time since last week. The emotion attached to the Big Holiday is sort of strange. Odd, you might say. Or capitalize it. This morning was jarring. Miles has the flatscreen on Channel 72—the Faux News feed—since their bias is balanced by the fact that we can see it, […]

The Robots Are Here!

We arrived at a crisis of unidentified proportions yesterday. The robots have arrived. We stumbled across the news on GeekWire, a new source recommended by some shipmates drifting through the electronic ether. The story touched on something we have been wondering about ever since we had to wheel Vic around in that rolling contraption from […]

Harrington’s Bit Win Riding Rosie!

(This is Rosie, her parents, the Harringtons, and Deridre and a glimmer of what might be on the grill as we open up the 250th 4th of July!) There is some stuff going on overseas this morning, nominally a US response to Iran drone strikes on a container ship, and we whacked three or four […]

Morning Across the River

Goodness, what a start to a jumbled day. There were still little digital bits of Tuesday dangling in Thursday’s inbox, all demanding attention. There is a mountain of material to cover—or ignore. We’ll let you decide. The Democratic Party primaries produced three strongly progressive candidates who appear well-positioned in their heavily Democratic districts this November. […]