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Brian David Phillips

This is my site. I am Brian David Phillips. If you don't know what I'm up to or about, you probably shouldn't be here.

Nun of the Week Discovered

Dr. Omed of Dr. Omed’s Tent Show Revival fame is amazed and his wife amused to find that his Nun of the Week posts have been discovered by others . . . enough folks visit his site to push its ranking sky high. Well, that’s one of the reasons I go there. Of course, while…

Failing Grades for English Teachers in Hong Kong

In the Standard . . . one third of English teachers who took the proficiency exam this year failed: In a major embarrassment, 203 English-language teachers must switch to other subjects or face the sack in September after failing to meet the government’s language proficiency requirements. That represents a third of just over 600 teachers…

Lion + Tiger = Liger

There’s a Liger in the house! Pentung Technology University is now the host to a cross between a lion and a tiger. The university has an animal shelter for wild animals that have been abandoned or rescued from abusive homes. The animal in the photograph is an actual cross between a lion and a tiger…

Tribute to Ronald Reagan

A tribute that asks the question, “Do you think that went a little too far?” Yes, it does. Passing it on nonetheless. Tribute to Ronald Reagan. Compelling in a jackass sort of way . . . wondering how far they can take a sophomoric idea and how much it will hurt when it crashes and…

100 Faces

Arturo Brachetti bills himself as The Master of Metamorphosis. If he’s not the master, well, he’s awfully damned good. See 100faces. Nice work. Fun too.

Gay Extortion

Police in Taiwan have arrested a man who posed as a homosexual in a scam in which he would find out the identity of gay men in chat rooms and then threaten to tell their familes or employers they were gay unless they gave him money. He extorted money from over one hundred gay men:…

What I Did on My Birthday

Well . . . let’s see . . . as you know, last Sunday was my birthday . . . June 6 . . . I can no longer use the classic “I’m not really over forty” response to people’s questions about my age as I am now officially forty-one. Grrr. Now, what do you…

O . . .

Turn the volume up on your speakers. Make sure you’re relaxed and in a comfortable position. Breathe in deeply a few times and with each deep breath, relax, really relax. Let yourself feel loose, limp, and relaxed. Enter the zone. Breathe in, breathe out, relax deeply, six to nine times. Really let go. Now watch…

American Gulag

Journalist Elana Lappin has an interesting account of being arrested and held upon arrival in the US despite being from a friendly nation whose non-journalist citizens acan enter the US without hassle. Journalists from Friends, Allies of America: Beware. Food for thought and a bit more than depressing. The Patriot Act was intended to fight…

Date Rape Drugs on the Rise

Another testament to stupidity and irresponsibility . . . date rape drugs are on the rise . . . more and more folks are using them and more women are becoming victims . . . all over the planet. Sheesh. If you want to have meaningless sex with a woman, just ask. If she says…

The Finger

Here we have a collection of international offensive hand gestures aka Foreign Fingers. Way back when dinosaurs walked the Earth and I was in graduate school studying for my MA in Communication/Theatre, I researched intercultural communication quite a bit . . . this was actually the subject of one of the lectures I presented to…

When Two Become One. . . One and One is Two as One

My submission to the Hypnosis Technique Exchange Monthly Challenge (June 2004) is now up. Each month, hypnotists and other trancewrights are asked to create a piece related to the theme. Submissions are taken from the first through the fifteenth with voting afterwards until the ned of the month. Since this month’s theme is Improving Relationship…