Author: Vic Socotra

In Between War and Peace

So, the above montage is Dad’s work in the mid-1950s as he rose to be assistant Chief of Design at George Romney’s American Motors Company. He had started by establishing a relationship with Betty in New York City in 1948. His buddy Bob Veryzer mentioned there were jobs available in Detroit- “The Paris of the […]

Arrias and his Muse: My Muse is in a dark mood…

We See Money for your missiles, A billion for another floating beauty, Billions for bombers and AI, But none for corporals on duty. Politicians take their pictures With some PFC who lost an arm, Spread that picture around, The voters for to charm. But the PFC still has no arm, And his buddies are still […]

Wall Street Won’t Bail Him Out

(They say these entrepreneurs are still bailing out Wall Street from the 2008 Financial Crisis. You can see the complications if someone with authority hits you up for a half billion bucks by lunchtime tomorrow! Image BusinessInsider). We thought the former Chief Executive was going to get a bail-out yesterday from the fiscal mess he […]

Maybe We Can Go to Lunch?

(This is a visual representation of $1 trillion bucks, represented by stacking $100 bills on top of each other in neat rectangular stacks. In the single-stack vertical version, the stack would be 631 miles high. Congress passed a bill last night bringing the discretionary component of our budget to nearly a thousand miles in height). […]

Earth’s Axial Tilt or Obliquity

This is a big day. We are not going to let go of the tilt, which has dogged us through the winter season. There was an announcement from the Expert teams at the Park and Weather Services (they each have one that periodically make joint announcements). They say the cherry trees at the Basin on […]

Recapping the Parade of Fools

(New York State Attorney General Letitia James announces she does not want to take possession of Trump Tower in Manhattan in order to satisfy a preliminary ruling that will be appealed on a variety of Constitutional Issues against a former senior Administration official). Tough morning, and we beg your forgiveness for our lack of preparation. […]

Jenny Diver

(That is Bobbie Darin, the pop crooner who released the single “Mack the Knife” back in 1958. Mom and Dad had purchased the 45 RPM single and played it on the record player that sate on the table in the corner of the dining room in Birmingham, Michigan). The tune had a remarkable arc in […]

Weather Report: Spring in the Mud

(What is the caption to this strange melange of “reports” and alleged “news?” “This stuff is all going on? The staff spent the afternoon updating the updates. Images provided at low-resolution for identification purposes only). There is political stuff all over this week. Our favorite is not the one going on here, interesting though it […]

A Little Traveling Music

A Little Traveling Music By Vic Socotra (Scroll down for triumphant messaging!) Socotra House Publishing LLC, Arlington Blvd, Arlington, VA 22203 Please join us this morning for a modicum of merriment. The guys from Production stopped by early yesterday as things we starting to wake up for the week of work. The Project had been […]

Arrias: Evacuation Day

The story really begins yesterday, on June 17th, 1775. But my real grasp of it began nearly 200 years later, on an early March day, while I was in high school. My mom was having a big party as a fund raiser for the hospital where my dad worked. We had a large, mostly unused […]