As anyone who has read the previous post would surmise, I rescheduled all my Monday appointments in order to meet the Turkish Embassy’s rather aggressive deadline. And, since almost all of my clients are in a similar hurry, of course, today’s schedule was packed, starting at 7:30 in the morning all the way through to… Continue reading Brer General and Dat Dere Paki Briar Patch
Author: tomcollins
Kurds Dead and in Flight are a Turkish Delight
The Turkish Embassy in Washington presents a formidable facade on that part of Massachusetts Avenue known as Embassy Row. Not all countries in this cruel world of ours have been around long enough to merit, or can even afford, an address on that grand boulevard. England and Japan, for example, both nations of great significance,… Continue reading Kurds Dead and in Flight are a Turkish Delight
Don’t Let This Happen to You
As I’ve noted in my Web log many times before, Washington is full of people who get up really early and rush downtown so they can be at their desks at 6:30 or 7:00 a.m., all the better to spend the rest of the day screwing up royally. I don’t suppose anyone reading today’s post would be terribly… Continue reading Don’t Let This Happen to You
Malibu Flame to Ignite DC
Yesterday around four thirty in the afternoon, my cell phone rang. Having left work early, I was walking down K Street to see my honey, Cerise, and help her take advantage of two mutual periods of downtime in our busy schedules by kicking off a serendipitous Monday tryst with some truly bodacious cocktails, courtesy of a… Continue reading Malibu Flame to Ignite DC
Primary Panic
At 10:30 this morning, a young fellow named Richard Kyrle, representing an organization that calls itself South Carolina First paid me a visit at my office downtown. He spent about 70 minutes waving his arms around in front of a PowerPoint presentation he projected on the retractable screen I had built into the ceiling. About… Continue reading Primary Panic