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March 9, 2025 vicSocotra

Around the block on Clock Change Sunday

It is a Sunday here at the Woodbine Rehab facility in Alexandria, so only the regular staff is doing their basic maintenance for the seniors and disabled crowd held here. No Physical or Occupational Therapists in evidence so a sort of industrial calm is present on this floor with no loudspeaker announcements to break the […]

February 24, 2025 vicSocotra

Monday? Monday!

This morning had an adjunct to what passes for Holy Services here on the Potomac, where we have a couple of the former seniors who attend services at the cathedral next door overlooking the passage across the Potomac and into the Capitol of the Republic most of is served. There is also a tradition at […]

February 18, 2025 vicSocotra

Arrias & His Muse: Swamp Sunrise

Thank God Arrias answered the bell this morning- he captured the moments before Splash slid the tablet across the conference table. Displayed was a large format of Vic’s upper leg with some impressive new deep incisions. DeMille rejected it, of course, but in this week in this town the display had a certain resonance with […]

January 15, 2025 vicSocotra

FMC: External Revenue

We were committed to watching the confirmation hearing to get a sense of who will be running things. Some of the Boomers laughed, since they content we don’t know who has been doing that for years. So things might get a little clearer with the daily list of give-aways to unlikely folks who may also […]

March 5, 2011 vicSocotra

8 Tips for Smart Investing and Grilling

You know what is coming as well as I do, so I won’t belabor the point. Maybe it is a recovery and maybe it ain’t. Remember, this is mostly a psychological drill, at least for Wall Street. If you feel good, you act good. I am as tired of the continuing crisis as I am […]

March 4, 2011 vicSocotra

Happy Days

I am about ready for a dose of irrational exuberance, al la the quote from the evil gnome Alan Greenspan about the housing bubble years ago. I wish I could find a gig like that- utter a sphinxlike line in the morning, and then take off for a long lunch and a longer weekend. Alan […]

March 3, 2011 vicSocotra

Burying George

It was one of those mornings; no reason for traffic to be horrific, but it was, anyway. Pulling out of the garage under Big Pink I spied the traffic backed up on Route 50 East in front of the building. Since it is almost a mile to the first of the two lights that slow […]

March 2, 2011 vicSocotra

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

02 March 2011 (Irish Poet William Butler Yeats.) Slouching Toward Bethlehem Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all […]

March 1, 2011 vicSocotra

Contingent Convertible

(1957 Ford Skyliner, dropping the top in front of the Glass House, Dearborn, Michigan. Photo courtesy FoMoCo.) “Beware the Ides of March. The bastards are at it again.” – Punk Playwright Bill Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 2, from Julie-the-Caesar I had not quite forgotten why I was in the office. I had decided it was […]

February 19, 2011 vicSocotra

Print Services

Based on the Author’s preference for binding and paper quality, and quantity of books ordered, Socotra House facilitates and/or provides a quote for printing services (Print on Demand and/or offset printing).

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