Editor’s Note: Don’t trust me or anyone that looks like me. I would trust Marlow, but why start there? – Vic Author’s note: Today’s piece is a brief respite from my ongoing Road series. As God is my witness, none of what follows is fictionalized. They Thought It Would Be Weirder McM and the Doc […]

Editor’s Note: Marlow has been on a tear of late. I was an early fan of his “Four Corners” saga of a counter-clockwise motorcycle trip around the perimeter of the Lower 48 states. Today, he touches here on some home country, and a reminder of an impending crisis in which my brother and I may […]

Editor’s Note: Yes, it is Saint Patrick’s Day. And yes, I am half in the bag already and wearing the emerald sweater of solidarity with our hardy folk who crossed the gray ocean to bring us to this interesting and colorful continent. Better than getting chased around by Vikings, I would think, though I am […]

Editor’s Note: More from Marlow’s magical mystical American road- seen from two wheels. Snow in the forecast here at the farm. Time to get it together if I am going to be back in The Swamp today. Wish me luck. But as Marlow notes, there could be a bar and dragons on the way. – […]

Editor’s Note: It is cool dow at the farm, and it is crisp and evokes the feelings Marlow described brow. I could not free more with his account of the dawn coming up, if not like Mr. Kipling’s “thunder across the Bay in Mandalay,” but it is a perfectly serviceable morning. We have “Sprung Ahead,” […]

Editor’s Note: down to the farm this morning to check on Edgar and Edwina, the famous Turkey Buzzards and maybe a winery or distillery visit. We will see…escaped the savagery of another Nor’Easter here in Your Nation’s Caital, but another is coming on Monday, part of a winter that really seems to like us. A […]

Editor’s Note: Another Nor’easter coming through Arlington tonight, which probably should spark the motivation for an afternoon trip to the Class Six store to stock up. As to the circus here in the swamp, those who are not career professionals in the Secret World it is perfectly understandable that one could miss the nuance of […]

Editor’s Note: This delightful romp through an older-era Key West hit me hard, as our little band of barroom refugees up in Virginia has first lost Willow and then Front Page here in Arlington. I remember a night in Key West where we stumbled into the Chart House to observe the table where famed treasure-hunter […]

Editor’s Note: we appear to be in a kinetic war with the Russian, which provoked a thermonuclear threat from Mr. Putin this morning. Not much other news, except the prospect of annihilation this morning. So it goes, quoting Mr. Kurt Vonnegut in his marvelous book “Slaughterhouse Five.” Marlow provides thought and observations this morning. There […]

Editor’s Note: this is a continuation of Marlow’s tale about a buddy who lived some extraordinary times in extraordinary places- and paid a price. It is interesting to see what currency was used. Some, like you guys, gave something. There is always something around the next bend in the river. Others gave it all. Let’s […]