The Voortrekker Monument Johannesburg For some reason I got completely out of control with taking pictures at weird angles on this trip. I thought it looked cool at the time. Most of my pictures are intended to convey a feeling of what a place is like rather than to stand on their own artistic merits. … Continue reading
Anytime an American girl tells you she “gets bored easily” you should immediately scratch her off your potential girlfriend list. I am saving you a lot of headaches with this advice. Continue reading
This one’s primarily for you, Sienna, but in this week of great turmoil in the financial markets, it bears reading by us all… Today we are switching things up a bit with a guest essay: ******************************** “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There … Continue reading
Education time, kids… For those of you that don’t know, international legal protocol surrounding the shipment of lethal weapons requires that the shipper have a certificate of “end use” in which the buyer declares that the weapons are for its use only, and will not be transshipped. The end-user certificate in this example covered shipments … Continue reading
An excerpt from William S. Burroughs’ novella The Cat Inside… ****** At Los Alamos Ranch School, where they later made the atom bomb and couldn’t wait to drop it on the Yellow Peril, the boys are sitting on logs and rocks, eating some sort of food. There is a stream at the end of a … Continue reading
You know that scene in Goodfellas where Ray Liotta’s character has a busy day? That’s my life lately. Every day. “I had a busy day. I had to drop guns off at Jimmy’s to match some silencers he had. I had to pick up my brother at the hospital and pick up some stuff for … Continue reading
Hi Kids – As you can see, The Velvet Rocket has undergone an upgrade. And here Elizabeth must be singled out for praise for her assistance and inspiration as well as Ian who has been nagging me to upgrade to WordPress for a while. As alluded to in the prior sentence, we are now publishing … Continue reading
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