Author: Vic Socotra

THE CLINTON COUNT

Yep. First afternoon of the new year, and we already are discovering interesting stuff. The table above is one thqat we emphtically deny knowing anything about, except for vince Foster, whose grave we used to run by on physical Training. We got started on retraining for the staff based on the memo from Legal. We […]

Rearing Twenties

Well, that was the moment it all came rushing down a stairwell and began to pool ominously at the bottom of the ladder. The liquid level varied, of course, as it sloshed back and forth. It was nearly the moment for the Big Change at the end of an old year. We had been saving […]

Arrias: Log Entry Per Anno Domini

Author’s Note: I forget – is it the last log entry of the year or the first log entry of the new year??? – Arrias 2023 In Ukraine the war grinds on Bakhmut, Marinka, et al, Soldiers died by the thousands Buildings pounded into rubble Where will it end, this nasty war, Everyone’s really beginning […]

The Moon’s a Balloon

Spirit in the New Year! Are we toasting non-toasting or vice versa? We were going to do something like this and have it all tidy and ready to go when Sunday slides start smirking down into the Western Sky to brighten the other side of things that fly with such determination over our gentle world. […]

Let’s Get Ready!

You know the traditional dilemma for participants in the literary production game. Here we are, end of the week in the end of a year. It is not quite over, so you needn’t throw anything to get our attention. There has been talk for weeks on the matter at hand would be how to handle […]

Coming Attractions

The Writer’s Section at Socotra House LLC was apprehensive this morning. Well, we are often in that transitional state where one thing could indeed lead to something else. So, we have been watching that, but with direct association with Pirates and Zombie, large well fed fowl and friendly potatoes, and then a rising chorus of […]

A Box For Saint Stephen

Boxing Day is something you have run across in this holiday season. Not to fall over it exactly, though that is possible, but rather something seems logical and fairly prim in execution. We talked about it after the brief stuff we can put back up near that Elf. He is the one who gets mostly […]

Arrias on the Holiday: Admiral Claus and His Sleigh

We all know that NORAD (The North American Air Defense Command) traces Santa every year. But, here at the Special Compartmented Operations and Tracking Center Hypo (SCOTCH) we have been working a special program, (known locally as “Project Single Malt”) to develop a better idea of what we are really looking at when we consider […]

A Town by the Manger

We were stuck for ideas this morning. We had those old notes from the 1989 Med Cruise on USS Forrestal (CV-59). It was an odd cruise for its times, just as this holday currently sweeping over us has some moments we would just as soon forget outright. We had looked back at the Cruisebook junk […]

Why George Picked Three

Finding the above image was what Splash brought to the Production Meeting. He liked it because of the bold nature of post-publication speculation in 1947. It is an understandable result, since that is the only model his generations hd to work with. To his credit, George was a product of what fate delivered to the […]