When The Velvet Rocket occasionally goes dark for stretches of time, it is not because our staff are on strike or because we are being lazy. No, it is because we are out investigating and developing new content for your viewing pleasure. That shall be the situation for the next couple of weeks as we … Continue reading
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
The Best Pickup Line?
Written: Winter 2012, New York Occurred: Summer 2001, London Over the summer of 2001 I worked as an intern at an American investment bank in London. After work, I would frequently join my co-workers in a pub down the street that we had locked down. One evening while hanging out with my usual group, … Continue reading
Quote Of The Day: Executive Outcomes
I’ve mentioned Executive Outcomes before… Below is an interesting description of the capabilities of Executive Outcomes at their peak: Executive Outcomes is capable of rapidly deploying a battalion-strength force almost anywhere in the world with impressive asset support. EO owns a slew of armored fighting vehicles: two Boeing 727s and a C-47, attack aircraft such … Continue reading
Quote Of The Day: Size Matters
A small number of countries possess the majority of the world’s economic power and population. Just eight nations (United States, China, Japan, Germany, France, India, Britain and Russia) possess two-thirds of the world’s economic activity, 51 percent of the population and 31 percent of the real estate. This small group of nations, out of some … Continue reading
St. John Cemetery In Queens
My mother is into genealogy and when she mentioned that a number of our relatives were buried in a cemetery not exceedingly far from The Velvet Rocket’s New York office, I Googled the cemetery to learn more about it. The name of the cemetery is St. John and despite being owned by the Roman Catholic … Continue reading
Quote Of The Day: Transport for London (TfL)
It’s true. Don’t wait… We are merely circuitboards of neurons, veins and chemical agents completely at the mercy of our material, constituent components acting in concert. And soon, sooner than you think, you will degrade into your constituent parts and nothing you say or believe now will matter at all. So, make the most of … Continue reading
Disaster Tourism Destinations
When visiting the Chernobyl site a couple of years ago, I ran into a guy that was writing about “Disaster Tourism”. I thought that was an interesting concept and for some reason I’ve been thinking about that conversation and disaster tourism destinations in general tonight… Now, I should clarify what he meant by “disaster tourism” … Continue reading
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