(Shanghai metered child ride, 1998. Photo Socotra) There was some controversy about the image this morning. We were going for something that conveys whimsy. There had been a brief discussion about her when it surfaced. It had been in an old directory buried two or three levels down in the little box that serves our […]

Author’s note: Yesterday, the piece on slithering wrote itself. Morning events now portend a dark magic most humans alive today have never seen. -Marlow Screenshot 2023-03-17 at 12.33.02 PM.jpgTen little investment banksStanding in a lineOne stood lookin’ at another one’s credit line Then there were nine Nine wild assed investment chiefsTheir hearts all full of […]

We have been rolling around with the debris of two moves back up from The Farm in rural Culpeper County to the urban amenities of Arlington on the banks of the Potomac. Some assorted memories surfaced in the process. This was one of them: The somewhat ungainly gray turbo-prop aircraft in the foreground is shown […]

(This is the Chairman’s Grandfather, the Last of the 100%ers in his line. The image is cropped from the one that hung for years in the local High School in Bellaire, Ohio. His life comes up on Saint Patrick’s Day to help us all focus. Mike Foley was his name, and he was a local […]

Author’s note: Upon awakening today, the piece on slithering wrote itself. Ride the wild winds, me boy-o’s. -Marlow Last night was the second annual Savannah Slithering — a parade of snake lanterns! And people along a ssstroll, from Lone Wolf Lounge to DeSoto Ave. Free, festive, fun, and mildly alcoholic – one must carry at […]

We had a conversation about the lower image placed in the center of the weekly montage of joy and misery. The headlines in the SuperMarket News brought back memories of the America in which we were raised. Remember? The important issues of the day were festooned in racks by the chewing gum at the cash […]

If you wanted us to launch on the Black Sea incident where the Russians knocked down a US Reaper Drone, we were almost going to accommodate you. We still have the technical team working on what the Russians were tyring. It looks like an attempt to drench the Reaper with jet fuel dumped from the […]

Maybe you saw the sign over the highway in the video from El Paso. There were like a thousand mostly young men storming the border. They were coming north. The two words on the sign, en Espanol, mean something like “happy journey.” We don’t know who sponsored the signs, though we support the sentiment. That […]

We could wait until the President finishes talking about Bank Failures this morning. “Silicon Valley Bank” is the one that failed most recently, although there is another one in the string that went down in what is being described as “the second biggest failure ever.” They tell us the latest failure demonstrates that even medium-sized […]

(Clockwise are the recent New Works from Socotra House. “Cocktails With the Admiral” is a compilation of the collected thoughts of RADM Mac Showers from his arrival at Pearl in February of 1942 with the big ships still on the bottom. That collection of sea stories was followed in short order by “Voyage to the […]