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 […]

(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 […]

(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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

(Globe and Anchor CEO Herley, preparing for mission insertion). OK- I was doing my part in the Ground Game this morning, and drove a pal to the absentee-in-person Early Voting polling station near the Courthouse Metro stop on the Orange Line. That seemed more important than the Daily Story, which had the editorial bullpen in […]

(The Front Page National Lay-Off Appreciation Day crowd applauds the loss of Jon’s income. L-R, JPeter (father was a legendary Christians In Action Chief of Station), Keith the Master Mounter (from the Smithsonian), Liz-with-an-S, Certified Fraud Examiner from the Office of the Inspector General Upstairs From the Bar rand former Mixologist from the fabulous Willow) […]

It was a slow and slightly disassociated weekend. I am still feeling like crap, kind of a low-grade motion sickness, and can’t tell if it is an effect of an over-ambitious social schedule or delayed reaction to the cautiously good news about the state of my general health. I came down to the farm after […]

I looked over at the time-hack on the menu bar to the computer and decided it was about time to get organized. I pulled the two tuxedos out of the closet and checked which jacket seemed to fit better, put the other one away, and looked at the single miniature military medal I would wear […]

This just in from an Old Japan Hand…. new special feature of the NIP on-line presence. We think it will be a useful connection to the Kanto Plain and the Tokyo-wan that many of us called home at one time, however briefly. This Old Japan Hand has a made a career of interpreting two amazing […]