Legal said we could mention two of the holidays in progress today, so long as it was done with respect and without mocking anything. We appreciate that. It makes those first seven cups of fresh java a little easier to deal with. But confusion is abroad in all the messaging, since there are so many […]

Oh, the stuff out there with a week to go? Surprises have to be launched in the next 72 hours to have decent coverage before the Big Event next Tuesday. There will be a special afternoon edition to cover what is unfolding now, not in detail, but just to sample the issues in motion. Rocket […]

We are tired of the Big Surprise watch and Splash has taken to sitting on the Patio until he is confident everyone else has gone to bed before he can press his phone screen to display: “Not Last Night” and burn a last cigarillo in the crisp dark air, Orion’s bright arm rising about the […]

The Chairman shoke Section Leader DeMille’s hand energetically on his way to do some business that might have involved a mimosa and a white tablecloth. He said: “Doesn’t look like the Israeli’s did more than send a real powerful signal, so I am going to see if we can get cozy with the company that […]

So, Arrias stops by with a load of poems dispatched by his Muse. There is some agitation in the circle around the picnic table. The annual meeting of the Old Spooks organization is later, over at the Country Club our grandfather’s generation built on the old farms in Arlington. So, the Production Meeting turned into […]

The Chairman directed extra attention be placed on things while the Election and Surprises are Looming. That means someone is supposed to prep for the morning Production Meeting, which produces some scrawls of unintelligible phrases. This morning’s list started without identification of region. The strike at Boeing just re-ignited and it just had another satellite […]

Melissa had not come back from the El Paso café over on Pershing when the rest of the morning crew finally appeared sequentially on The Patio in the last clear inviting morning of a season waning like the moon above. Splash had scrawled “Small S’esses Rising?” on his tablet before doing something else and she […]

(Rest in peace, LCDR Evans and LT Whileman, lost in an EA-18G Growler mishap near Mr. Ranier). A confused morning at Big Pink. Splash had the Big Surprise watch last night and when it appeared there was not going to be an unexpected Big One, he just started looking at the moon’s arc over the […]