Author: vicSocotra

Bright and Righteous

Well, there should be a practical means of getting on with this year now half done and sigh in relief. The President, like him or not, put on a performance we could not have managed in our youth as jets thundered across several national panoramas. The severe weather alert popped up in the late afternoon […]

Getting Ready For Tomorrow!

Hi! We had beef, Iberico pork and BBQ chicken events over the last few days and with the big FIFA match coming up tomorrow, I sent Vic over to Captain White’s, our local fishmonger in Oxon Hill across the River. (US MNFT, 2026) The EU is traditionally a dominant force in what they call “futball,” […]

Between Doomsday and the 4th of July

The Navy Brass wanted to compare and contrast the survivability of both American and Axis ships, which is why the Nazi Hipper-class heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen was brought all the way from Europe for the test. By the time she arrived at Bikini, she was officially known as USS IX 300, which is the oddest […]

We will keep this short enough to just mark how special this week has been. The image? It is of an insouciant young man fifty years ago, who thought maybe it was time to get a haircut and try to find a decent job. That was around the time of another big celebration. I don’t […]

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 […]