(This is the Chairman’s Grandfather, the Last of the 100%ers in his line. The image is cropped from the one that hung for years in the local High School in Bellaire, Ohio. His life comes up on Saint Patrick’s Day to help us all focus. Mike Foley was his name, and he was a local […]

Author’s note: Upon awakening today, the piece on slithering wrote itself. Ride the wild winds, me boy-o’s. -Marlow Last night was the second annual Savannah Slithering — a parade of snake lanterns! And people along a ssstroll, from Lone Wolf Lounge to DeSoto Ave. Free, festive, fun, and mildly alcoholic – one must carry at […]

We had a conversation about the lower image placed in the center of the weekly montage of joy and misery. The headlines in the SuperMarket News brought back memories of the America in which we were raised. Remember? The important issues of the day were festooned in racks by the chewing gum at the cash […]

If you wanted us to launch on the Black Sea incident where the Russians knocked down a US Reaper Drone, we were almost going to accommodate you. We still have the technical team working on what the Russians were tyring. It looks like an attempt to drench the Reaper with jet fuel dumped from the […]

Maybe you saw the sign over the highway in the video from El Paso. There were like a thousand mostly young men storming the border. They were coming north. The two words on the sign, en Espanol, mean something like “happy journey.” We don’t know who sponsored the signs, though we support the sentiment. That […]

We could wait until the President finishes talking about Bank Failures this morning. “Silicon Valley Bank” is the one that failed most recently, although there is another one in the string that went down in what is being described as “the second biggest failure ever.” They tell us the latest failure demonstrates that even medium-sized […]

(Clockwise are the recent New Works from Socotra House. “Cocktails With the Admiral” is a compilation of the collected thoughts of RADM Mac Showers from his arrival at Pearl in February of 1942 with the big ships still on the bottom. That collection of sea stories was followed in short order by “Voyage to the […]

(Our digital immersion is a revolution in human affairs!) We have agreed to refrain from posing on the partisan parapet and retired without rancor from the fray. There is plenty of emotion going round as people yack about the various crisis situations in progress. The information streams being waved over the public and private places […]

The name “Worm Moon” is thought to relate to the emergence of earthworms from the thawing soils. That is a distillation of the conversation that had gone through full mugs of coffee. The change in soil composition, for example. The little worms start to turn. Ground is softer, with consideration for how armored vehicles might […]

Fox 5 Announces Stage Three of Cherry Blossom Deployment. There are six, but as of yesterday the ‘florets have extended. Halfway to Stage Six and full blossom!). Thursdays are filled with normal excitement but there is more today. The Cherry Blossoms hit Third Degree yesterday in defiance of the cool Canadian breeze over the city. […]