(Natasha’s tin-foil hat sports a nautical theme. It is very useful for avoiding the rays projected by black helicopters and other useful Government programs. Photo Socotra). Sorry, Gentle Readers. This is going to be late and not filled with passion, except of the lesser sort. Not my fault, or at least not completely. The Russians […]

(Willow Group at the Amen Corner in the Heart of Winter. Photo by The Lovely Bea.) Can’t and won’t do the rant again today. I took my aluminum helmet off when I got back from Willow, exhausted from the week. Things have been both busy and slow as the artificial crisis continues. Certainly stressful. It […]

I have to insert the caveat here, up front: “I am no member of the GOP; I am opposed to a long litany of things, to include murder, particularly the murder of children; exploitation of same; gender and orientation bias; littering; pollution, generally speaking; crime; lies and the oppression of minorities. Further, I am in […]

(When published in 1775, this little pamphlet was the biggest best seller of the day. Photo Wikipedia). Well, the holidays are thankfully in the wake behind us. I may still have the Christmas lights up, but I will turn them off one of these days soon. It is only common sense to save the electricity. […]

(The façade of the fall-back bar and restaurant in the vibrant Ballston neighborhood.) I met Liz-with-an-S at the Front Page last night. A meeting was necessary. The mailroom at The Daily has been swamped with inquiries about her departure from the Willow bar staff. “Why?” read the torrent of lamentation. “She was so pretty, so […]

(The Socotras, circa 1959, foreground Vic, Annook and Spike. Raven in his Navy flight jacket behind. I have never seen this image before. Photo Socotra) There were several things to deal with this morning and it is already out of control and not even morning any more. It is a Kodachrome kind of day out […]

Hah! Just lost the veneer of one of my two front teeth on breakfast. Crap. New Year, new challenges. How can a fried egg demolish dental fixtures? Add another thing to the list for the working week. Crap. I hate Mondays. As we lurch toward the next artificial crisis here in town, the Administration is […]

(Transferred to the Library of Congress in 1998, Mount Pony had been a Cold War structure with 140,000 square feet of radiation-hardened bunker space to handle the computers that handle all US inter-bank transfers. The Richmond branch of the Federal Reserve also had several billion dollars in cash stashed there against a nuclear winter day, […]

I like to “eat my peas” first and get on with more pleasant things. So, I checked the office mail to see if I had missed anything in the night, plowed through the Times and answered mail from around the world. Now I am looking at the clock and sighing. Thank Goddess I got the […]

(The Panzer to the left of the old ANCC Flagpole that fronted the Club House for a gazllion years and which had a jaunty nautical flair.) Mr. Sluggo called out of the blue yesterday morning and said: “You wanna get a drink after work?” I said, “Sure. I’d like to have a couple Grey Goose […]