Monthly Archives: August 2004

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QT’s Diary

by Brian David Phillips • August 31, 2004

Fun to read . . . QT’s Diary . . . real or not, some interesting tidbits.

Masters of the Pillow

by Brian David Phillips • August 31, 2004

Noy Thrupkaew takes a look at the Ronin of Raunch, Darrell Hamamoto, a professor turned adult filmmaker who decries a lack of Asian men in American adult entertainment . . . seeing a consipiracy by White supremacists . . . who has gone so far as to attempt to create a correction in Masters of…

BOP-C

by Brian David Phillips • August 31, 2004

BOP-C is an interesting attempt to apply some of the work of Wilhelm Reich on contemporary politics. Not quite the Reichian ideas I would suggest in this situation, but interesting nonetheless.

AWOL . . . Brian off living his life

by Brian David Phillips • August 20, 2004

I am posting this from beautiful Hong Kong where my family will be spending the next week or so . . . enjoying this wonderful city and visiting family and friends (my wife is from Hong Kong so we’ve got an agenda all setup). I will post once in a while but don’t expect daily…

Step Aside, Travolta, Scientology Has A New Face Man

by Brian David Phillips • August 18, 2004

Tom Cruise has opened up to Rolling Stone about his love-slash-obession with Scientology . . . complete with railing against psychiatry and psychology. The nifty thing about all that stuff is that while Hubbard talked about hypnosis as being a bad thing and that his followers should never go to therapists other than the church,…

Economic Indicators . . . Miniskirts Going Micro, Sunny Days Ahead

by Brian David Phillips • August 18, 2004

One of the traditional indicators that the economy is on an upswing has is showing that Japan is in recovery . . . as microminiskirts are becoming more popular. While there has never been a proven causal link, the length of women’s hemlines has often correlated well to economic prosperity. The longer the length of…

Quite Possibly One of the Most Important Books Ever Published

by Brian David Phillips • August 17, 2004

An Insider’s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson by Eric Wagner is on deck and waiting to be read, or devoured as the case may be. I got a heads up on this book from Kevin Dilmore, an important author in his own right who I would strongly encourage anyone and everyone to read. Kevin and…

Pornography is Good for You

by Brian David Phillips • August 17, 2004

A recent study in Australia has found that in many ways pornography is good for you. Thank you, sir, may I have another! "The surprising finding was that pornography is actually good for you in many ways," Dr McKee said. "When you look at people who are using it in everyday life, over 90 per…

World’s Worst Superhero Costumes

by Brian David Phillips • August 17, 2004

Uh . . . I object. Some of these World’s Worst Superhero Costumes are actually quite nifty. Some are incredibly suckful and others you forgive. Oh, btw, I collected Dazzler appearances and she is only half as lame as the site contends. Her power was not just colored lights, they were colored lights that dazzled!…

Micky Yanai’s Helicopter

by Brian David Phillips • August 17, 2004

Micky Yanai is a Japanese adult video performer who has been around for awhile. He is one of the few such male performers who is known by name outside of Japan. Actually, most folks don’t know him by name but a lot of them have seen a video clip of his most famous invention .…

Loss

by Brian David Phillips • August 16, 2004

My sincere and heartfelt condolences to hypnotist, hypnoAsia member, and father, Hsu Ming on the most unfortunate loss of his daughter. He was in Athens helping an Olympic archer with hypnosis when he received the news and has cut the trip short. I am very sorry to hear of your loss. Our prayers are with…

Legal Hypnosis Myths

by Brian David Phillips • August 16, 2004

If you look at this case, you will find some myths about hypnosis that are still guiding legal decisions . . . and they are still wrong, law or not, they are myths: "basic principle that, no matter how an offense is defined, the minimal requirement for criminal liability is conduct which includes a ‘voluntary’…

Hypnotic Foamy

by Brian David Phillips • August 15, 2004

This is really rather cute . . . HYPNOTIC FOAMY . . . via HypnoFocus.

Learning Your ABCs

by Brian David Phillips • August 11, 2004

Hmmmm . . . what an interesting way to teach the alphabet . . . Learning Your ABCs!

Rock, Scissors, Paper . . . serious competition

by Brian David Phillips • August 11, 2004

Some people take competition a bit too serously . . . Rock, Paper, Scissors Fight.

Is This Art?

by Brian David Phillips • August 11, 2004

Internet sex addict show sets out to shock the Fringe . . . basically Tim Fountain’s show is him going online at gaydar and finding some guy to meet – based upon the audience’s votes – he sets up a meeting, goes out and meets the guy, has sex, and then comes back and tells…

Comic World Taipei Seven

by Brian David Phillips • August 10, 2004

I submitted a full-frame non wobble version of this image to the 3D-StereoviewXchange. Comic World Taipei 7 was held Father’s Day, Aug 8, 2004 – the Chinese numbers 8-8 are homonyms for the Chinese word for Father “BaBa” – at National Taiwan University. We only went to the one day for a couple hours. I…

Sharp Introduces 3-D Desktop Computer Display

by Brian David Phillips • August 10, 2004

Sharp introduces 3-D desktop computer display . . . they’re taking the technology from their notebooks and putting them on a desktop LCD. While the news of the notebook was very exciting . . . see this post for information and links to some worthwhile stereographic display sites . . . I never actually saw…

Mentorship and Hypnosis Practice

by Brian David Phillips • August 10, 2004

Currently in discussion at HypnoAsia . . . Actually, you have given me a very interesting idea. In the medical field, they typically work in teams for many operations. Yes, but for most consulting work it is done one-on-one. In cases where a patient is seen by more than one physician, the junior doctors always…

Nipple Hypnosis

by Brian David Phillips • August 9, 2004

About a week ago, I received an email query from a regular reader here at Life of Brian. My answer may or may not interest other readers here . . . but I’m posting it anyway. Note that the processes I outline apply to women or men for nipples or anything else you decide to…

Women Have Less Sex Today than Their Grandmothers Did

by Brian David Phillips • August 7, 2004

Depressing news when you think about it. We often assume and like to delude ourselves that we’re sexually more aware and open than our uptight grandparents. However, that may not be the case. The proof is in th pudding and our pudding’s pretty cold when compared to days of yore. According to a new survey,…

Missing the Boat on Parenting

by Brian David Phillips • August 6, 2004

Former porn star wins custody . . . she gets custody of her child as long as she never makes another movie? Whether she makes movies or not has nothing to do with parenting skills. Whether her film life interferes with taking proper care of her child is a much more important matter. If she…

Hypnotic Progression, Future Life Progression, and Parallel Life Connection

by Brian David Phillips • August 5, 2004

I am crossposting this from the Hypnosis Technique Exchange after having been offline for a number of days (we had been thinking about switching ISPs so one thing led to another and we made the switch earlier than we had originally anticipated . . . this does mean some good things within the next couple…