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April 21, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: What It Was Wasn’t Exactly Clear

Editor’s Note: Marlow brings back some memories from a quarter century ago. Not good ones. We all share them, though. Last night there was the monthly gathering of the tribe down in Old Town at the Sonoma Cellars wine bar. Our missing comrades could have been there had they made other choices. – Vic April […]

April 17, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: North Korea’s Weapons: Whose Money?

Editor’s Note: It is Easter Sunday, a day of joy throughout Christendom for the resurrection of the Risen Christ. Have the very best holiday possible! And remember, Arrias is a real person, not the Easter Bunny. – Vic North Korea’s Weapons: Whose Money? They held a parade in Pyongyang on Saturday… It’s worth searching the […]

April 17, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Strong Letter To Follow

Editor’s Note: Marlow is a real live human being. Really. -Vic Author’s Note: This is not something I wanted to share, let alone post, during Holy Week. So, I withheld it for the coming week. True story nonetheless. – Marlow Strong Letter To Follow I found a single day’s correspondence I had had with various […]

April 14, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: El Dorado

Editor’s Note: Marlow is his own man. Like, totally. – The Editorial Board El Dorado I found one of my old state highway maps from a cross country trip in 2005. It prompted this memory: no chance at all, completely cut off from eastern imperial cities, I was a middle aged man riding my motorcycle […]

April 13, 2017 Vic Socotra

Blue Eighty-Two

(Mother of all Bombs. It is not Halloween, so it did not come in pumpkin colors this morning). Well, they did it yesterday morning, their time, and if it just so happened that the largest non-nuclear air-dropped bomb in the world was dropped from a specially configured C-130 near a tunnel and bunker complex in […]

April 12, 2017 Vic Socotra

Spy Wednesday

(Mac dressed to kill for his 90th birthday cruise on the Potomac). I sent yesterday’s story on Mac Showers and his involvement with the emergence of the “technological transfer” issue with unvarnished relief as I mashed the button on the wireless keyboard. And it came with not a touch of wistful melancholy. Then I saved […]

April 12, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Drive-in Nightmare

Editor’s Note: Standard disclaimer. Marlow is an actual human being and a welcome guest on the Socotra House LLC site. I miss our place- Maverick’s, on Woodward Ave. in suburban Detroit. If I had his car I would probably already be dead. – Vic Drive-in Nightmare I grew up in a place called Clintonville, a […]

April 11, 2017 Vic Socotra

Security

(Willow’s co-owner Tracy O’Grady with one of her famous beef-on-Kemmelweck sandwiches). Willow was jumping. It was the last Friday of the month, the evening Tracy O’Grady added the famous Beef on Weck sandwich from her native Buffalo, N.Y., to the menu. Mac and I normally did not meet on the most hectic of weeknights, but […]

April 10, 2017 Vic Socotra

Counterintelligence

(Vic and Mac Showers at the Willow Bar, 2010). Willow was quiet that Thursday Afternoon. The weather outside was raw and damp, so the patio was deserted. Without the constant coming and going to serve the tables out front, Jasper was hanging out behind the bar with Big Jim working the taps and pouting out […]