Author: Vic Socotra

Between Surprises

We actually don’t know if we are between them, or whether this is all really one big surprise. Creative Team Leader DeMille directed us to have a focus group to ascertain expert opinion, since Thursdays, like many other days, has a challenge in that act. Focus, we mean. Thursday are vulnerable due to traditional Wednesday […]

Cyclones

There are multiple spinning cyclones in the world this morning. Those are the tight circling winds that break 75 miles an hour and can go to hundreds of mph in speed. Those are profound, and we have been told to treat them with respect. We are permitted smiles of mildly bemused amazement. It also accounted […]

So, It Begins?

Press reports indicate Iran did their bit with missiles arcing in the heavens this morning. They responded to the Israeli ground offensive in southern Lebanon with a barrage of ballistic missiles today, less than 24 hours after the Israelis initiated a limited incursion to target Hezbollah assets. The IDF said all Israeli civilians were waiting […]

Happy New Year!

It is New Years! It is a day we used to celebrate with smiles on the little budget staff nestled in the bowels of the big five-sided building a shade less than four miles away from the Picnic Table. We used to do a whimsical sort of party with a glass of wine to celebrate […]

Arrias: Unambiguous Ambiguity

Tsar Vlad I is in the news again, talking about nuclear weapons. The news media reports he has changed his nuclear policy but I wonder if that is so. I say that for a simple reason: Russia’s nuclear policy is Vlad Putin’s nuclear policy. He is the guy who will order nuclear weapons be used; […]

Metaphor Monday & The Missing Middle

Arrias did the heavy lifting this morning. He took on the issues of mass destruction so we can worry about the missing metaphors. We thought we would use this Monday as a sort of metaphoric leap into a quick encapsulation of this week of transition. The foreign stuff is powerful, and immediate, like a movie […]

Sunday Surprises

When we stumbled down in the general direction of breakfast- or at least the dark steaming liquid substance that begins the headlong fall into the day. This one warmed as the coffee cooled, and was tinged with surprise. We were going to start with a nice and poignant piece by a distinguished scholar. She isn’t […]

Foreigners

OK, how do you deal with a historic week filled with incomprehensible and dramatic stuff? Naturally, we went to the Chairman’s stack of old vinyl 33RPM LPs and grabbled one from the bottom of the stack. It happened to be one of Foreigner’s, a great group that came out of New York City in the […]

Convergence

We asked Legal to have their intern Melissa stop at the Metaphor Locker on her way to the morning production meeting at the picnic table. Splash had pulled in some of the more striking examples late in the previous day when the storm was changing intensity and pulled his end of the picnic table to […]

Sky News

Sky News is a Brit source with which we have had experience. They report that the Hezbollah has managed a drone attack on a navy base which lies south of Haifa. That caused a pause in conversation, since most of the targets mentioned in the news torrent are just names. This is a place where […]