Category: Marlow: Life & Island Times

Life & Island Times: More Plague Chronicle Notes

Yesterday morning we sat with our morning coffees overlooking the back of the side garden. Out of the grey skies came an unpredicted brief rain shower. This brief imprisonment indoors was pleasant as it possessed a more tender naturalness than this extraordinary plague, shelter-in-place quarantine has had in store for us. Our Hostess City in […]

Life & Island Times: Season of the Sick

As the calendar turned to 2020, the world’s inhabitants were for the most part playful and joyfully hopping around. Then bit by bit over two months, they turned grumpy and then scared. This current contagion started off confined to a far-off, unknown place called Wuhan. Most, if not all, of the rest of us, were […]

Life & Island Times: Zombie Herd Cull

Herd culling victim The herd was culled in dramatic fashion just before today’s lottery style delegate award process. Zombie candidates dropped like flies. Several flew themselves to Texas to swear their fealty and submit their job applications to the hopeful moderate candidate of best standing. Some pundits called it another standard mess of cuttin’, smashin’, […]

Life & Island Times: Biden Wins. Zombie Shambling Continues

After tonight’s end to the wild, rocking South Carolina primary, here’re my thoughts on the continuing slow-rolling zombie apocalypse and our zombie-fication. – Marlow As we saw during Campaign 2016, these 2020 zombies look like men and women, walk like men and women, eat and otherwise function fully, yet are devoid of the human spark. […]

Life & Island Times: Black is Back

Gentle readers, I wrote this parody upon reading on February 12th the Chinese Communist Party’s poor imitation of Roseanne Roseanne-a-dana’s “Nevermind” regarding their previously announced, decreasing numbers of Wuhan Flu infections and deaths were no longer operative and that these numbers had in fact exploded upwards, almost geometrically, after the Party’s contrived “All is Well” […]

Life & Island Times: There are strange things happenin’ in DC

There are strange things happenin’ in DC After a wild, rocking and rolling, opening six weeks to 2020, here’s an old timey look back. – Marlow Oh, we hear cable TV news people say They are on the case in a righteous way There are strange things happenin’ in DC everyday Oh, that last panel’s […]

Life & Island Times: My Brother in Arms

27 December 2019 Author’s Note:This was penned by a friend, a fellow motorcycle rider and former USMC F4 pilot during the Vietnam era who flew many of the aerial scenes in the movie The Great Santini. Augustus Fitch has appeared under fictional aliases in my former no-shit two wheeled sea stories. – Marlow Wednesday, March […]