Spent the holidays at VCU, (a productive if isolating retreat) finishing the primary edit on a new video, then visited my brother in Eureka. He’s hard drinking, stoic and equally solitary: a formidable but invigorating presence. Together we walked along an industrial shore trading a caw-caw of woes with seagulls and thumping boats. Then there chaste against our needy ways, crab pots at the ready…