Year: 2017

End of Summer

Yeah, another nuclear test from the NORKs, and warning of another atomic conflict, but they shouldn’t do the demonstration over Labor Day. It is wasting time. It is like they don’t get the news cycle and the popular attention span here in America. Let’s concentrate on things that matter. Yeah, I know summer doesn’t officially […]

Life & Island Times: Irma Not So Douce

Editor’s note: So, I was with Marlow one night in Key West, and we experienced a un-named tropical shower that dumped water up the wheel wells on his car. Not a big deal, and didn’t even cause the transvestite hookers to go inside their bar, though I am sure if affected business. This one has […]

Stepping Up

The Cajun Navy stepped up, revealing the real America that the media doesn’t tell us about- wrong ‘meme,’ whatever that word means. I was never that clear on it. Steely Dan had a distinct voice- meme, message, whatever, but that is gone this morning since half of them- Walter Becker, 67- are now dead. I […]

Life & Island Times: Confrontation Art Scene

The Alt Radical Bleak and The Art of Confrontation or how working class and honest poor whites became an oppressed minority group Confrontation Art Scene Author’s note: this is the third and, for now, final piece on the ARB. – Marlow Downtown big city cable, broadcast and print media on both coasts had fallen prey […]

Arrias on Politics: A Most Dangerous Man

An East Asian country: threatening its neighbors while making snide and outrageous comments about the US and our allies, building an ever larger nuclear force, ruled by a man who sees no limits to his powers and who has, in the last several months, replaced all his senior military leadership to insure loyalty to him. […]

Pool People

I awoke way too early, and on my way to the end of the Internet, was only moderately surprised to see the North Koreans had apparently tested another nuclear device. I don’t think they realize we are not paying much attention to it, since we have plenty of stuff to occupy us right here, what […]

Life & Island Times: Past Reckonings

Author’s note: As a brief respite from my series of ARB pieces, here are some musings about post storm flood reckonings. – Marlow During the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, while sitting in my former isle seat, friends and I dealt directly with the aftermaths of the floods of seven hurricanes’ storm surges. They came […]

American Dunkirk

I really can’t get the cognitive dissonance out of my mind this afternoon between the concept of natural disaster and inimical evil. The North Koreans are launching missiles in a manner that suggests they would like the option of turning someplace like Los Angeles into a molten slag. I am aware there could be a […]

WHEN CELEBRITIES WERE ‘RATIONAL’ AND CARS WERE BEAUTIFUL

Editor’s Note: It is car show season, though it has been a cool summer here in DC, and I regret not getting out there to see the magnificent vehicles that have survived, based on the passion their owners and aficionados have for them. Me? I am a Rambler kid. This is from peripatetic contributor Jim, […]