Author: Vic Socotra

Useful Metaphors

Useful Metaphors

(Vapor, Splash and Vic preparing to provide water to Richmond). There was good news flying around that made everybody laugh. There’s a new child coming into this world just starting where many of us are getting ready to leave. So there was that and there was a lot to talk about. Each one could have […]

FMC: Advance Teams

FMC: Advance Teams

“Yike! The State Department Counter Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference Hub, or “R/FIMI,” is still open!” There was pandemonium near the Black Rifle Coffee urn in the Galley. When a quick Saturday production blow-through in the Socotra House Conference Room starts like that it means more work instead of our professional preference. The first question […]

FMC: The Daily News

FMC: The Daily News

DeMille had a great story about the three bars south of the HQ that got torched, but Legal said stay off for a minute until we know which of the victims groups were responsible for the attacks. Then, the Doc came in to talk to DeMille and left with a sort of determined expression as […]

FMC: Fire in the Woods

FMC: Fire in the Woods

James Woods is an actor of some repute and well regarded at this end of the building. He did not have a script for one of the most remarkable things shown on the wall of the Conference room at Socotra HQ last night. . He had a nice place in the path of the Ventura […]

FMC: Cold & Peace & Fire

FMC: Cold & Peace & Fire

It is cold out there. The incident on the Patio brought Security into the picture. Management has a contract with a local man who provides what the contract specifies a “roving patrol” in the hours of darkness, so there is no specific uniformed presence and there may be justification for additional measures, given the other […]

Big & Beautiful

Big & Beautiful

We are going to actually start the new year when the snow melts here on our version of Cape Guardafui on the Potomac. It is cold enough that what fell on top of what started Monday as ice is now powdery on top and likely to be with us a while. The Creative Section was […]

FMC: Alive in Twenty-Five

FMC: Alive in Twenty-Five

Well, sort of. It was a general consensus for the people who cycled through the conference table for some of those great small pastries that showed up and the core group that stuck around to run “merge notes” and mash the button. DeMille doesn’t understand platform distribution, so whatever Zoomer might be left gets stuck […]

Arrias: Another Year to Consider

January 1st 2024 to January 1st 2025 , Here a win, there a loss, History seemed to be repeating As we stumbled closer to chaos. We started off with a bang, Navy Helos gunned some pirates, Got to wonder ‘bout the Houthis Seem to be tempting the fates. But tragedy in east Asia, A horror […]

Coming and Going

Coming and Going

Nope. No year in review or any of the stuff that would have required the effort to compile some of the astonishing stuff about what will be a pivotal year in a time that will have a name undetermined as yet. It will rival the power of the “Gilded Age” or the “Roaring Twenties” since […]

An American’s Century

An American’s Century

Socotra House got the news when you did. The reactions to the message were mixed by the age of the ears and the amount of hair over them. And color, if there is any. We could do the general tenor of the response in terms of the American Century, that mythical period since the mid-20th […]