As you know, there has been another war in Eastern Europe going on for over ten months now. I was a remote participant in the one before that, and our pal Mac Showers had been there for one of the key moments in post-World War II history. I was writing a book on Mac’s remarkable […]

There was controversy in the Writer’s Section before the first pot of Chock Full O Nuts coffee was gone. Should we duck the big stories and talk about something that happened more than eighty years ago? Well, if it means avoiding actual honest labor on a Friday, naturally we are inclined to do so. War […]

Was that Medium a ‘Message,’ or ‘Massage?” There is a lot going on this morning. We talked about running the Weather Report for this week but have decided to wait until tomorrow. That may enable us to see if we will continue to fund the activities of our Government. By law it will run out […]

Editor’s Note: Here is a chilly reminder that while the official start of the Winter season is approaching, our terrestrial designation doesn’t mean quite the same thing in North Dakota as it does elsewhere. For those keeping score, Winter Starts: Wednesday, Dec 21 4:48 pm EST. It doesn’t End until Monday, 20 March 2023 at 5:24 pm. Here […]

(Above are two ways to advertise original content. At left is the B&W manner in which a great film was created. At right is the version you might see on the 1980’s muddy-color version. Thirty years after that effort it is much better, almost Hallmark in quality). We talked about it with wonder yesterday morning. […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow wrote this morning from his place on the Eastern Shore, already agitated by the historic moment celebrated in today’s edition of The Daily. He offers a particular moment in family history to justify his reaction to the assertion in the headlines that the solution to the energy crisis has arrived, along with […]

Wait! Don’t for a moment think that we are talking about the tidal wave of human beings who were moved by bus with Mexican police escorts to our southern border near Ciudad Benito Juarez. Ten of those buses a day, improbably funded by unknown sources, who are then discharged to walk to the US border, […]

(This is one of the rail cars WER Designed. That is clearly his image behind the wheel, and we have a pretty good idea who the kid might be!) We could launch on a Twitter-rama tale this morning, but the idea that in America, land of the free, we now have a government that….oh hell. […]

Editor’s Note: The controversies in the morning stream of news are mildly interesting on this day, nearly four decades after living in, around or under the direction of the Emerald City on the other side of the Potomac River. There was a mild argument in the Writer’s Section about exactly when things started to come […]

Author’s Note: It is sort of weird moving back into a place you have lived before. Old and new stuff gets all jumbled up. It can be fun. In the case of Big Pink, it now amounts tour having lived in five units there over twenty years. We recalled some of them due to a […]