As you know from the Life of Brian AWOL post, my family and I took a brief vacation trip to Kenting with some friends. Wouldn’t you know . . . we head for the best beaches in Taiwan, travelling from the far North to the extreme Southern tip of the country, only to get hit…
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Strip Or Die
by Brian David Phillips •
This is a very strange game. Strip Or Die . . . I didn’t die but I’m not sure I won either . . . the die part pretty much kills the fun at the end. Here’s a tip, putting six bullets into the gun is not a good idea.
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Art of Art . . . Frahm, that is
by Brian David Phillips •
This is a wonderful study of the effects of celery on elastic . . . that is, The Peculiar Art of Mr. Frahm. Truly inspiring study. A hoot and a half.
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Life of Brian . . . AWOL . . . for a few days
by Brian David Phillips •
My afmily and I are off to Kenting for a few days . . . I will return to Taipei and regular posting on July 6 . . . for now, posts to Life of Brian will not be as regular as usual. Wouldn’t you know it, we’ve been planning this trip for months and…
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Sex and Psychological Operations
by Brian David Phillips •
Sex and Psychological Operations is a rather interesting piece by Herbert A. Friedman that is a look at historical wartime use of sexually explicit material in propaganda. After you read this thought-provoking essay, go here. Same trick, different dogs. Both sites are inappropriate for folks who are bothered by obscene images or ideas (war being…
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Meet Anna Mae
by Brian David Phillips •
Meet Anna Mai . . . yes, she is what you think she is . . . a real doll, a sex doll manufactured to be very realistic and very anatomically correct. Anna Mae is a little different though as here they’re going for an anime/manga look that would probably go over very very well…
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Air Guitar Championships?
by Brian David Phillips •
Is air guitar really an art form? Well, it has it’s own competitions and there are US Air Guitar Championships. Most folks are going here right now because of the clip from Conan O’Brien with the panty flash . . . but, I’m also interested in why oh why is this sport receiving the coverage…
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The XXX Project
by Brian David Phillips •
Take thirty porn stars and photograph them clothed and unclothed for some very very striking portraits . . . The XXX Project . . . guess what I put on my wishlist . . . so feel free to just click on the link. You can get the book here.
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The John Ashcroft Amateur Video Contest
by Brian David Phillips •
Nerve has created a contest that is both entertaining and inspirational and just a little bit odd-and-a-half . . . The John Ashcroft Amateur Video Contest . . . contestants create their own video shorts and the winner is the “sexiest 1 minute or shorter video that Includes a discussion of Attorney General John Ashcroft”…
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Ass-vertise . . . can Taipei be far behind?
by Brian David Phillips •
The latest craze in advertising . . . Ass-vertise . . . will we be seeing bottom billboards soon? Some will say, no way, as the Taiwanese are too straightlaced for that sort of thing . . . I would point them to the betel nut beauty and the Electric Music Flower Car (dian-tze-hua-che) .…
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Girls in the Scenery
by Brian David Phillips •
Girls in the Scenery . . . interesting design . . . interesting concept . . . interesting pricing . . . interesting photos . . . oh, no photos . . . interesting.
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Shh. Don’t tell the king.
by Brian David Phillips •
Here is Princess Madeleine of Sweden. Now, if you look around, you’ll find one imge that made the King very hot under the collar, particularly because of the caption used on another site.
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Trance versus Hypnosis
by Brian David Phillips •
When asked what hypnosis is, a number of folks will tell you it’s deep relaxation or trance or the like. There are a number of hypnotists who disagree. I’d like to jump on the “Trance does not equal Hypnosis” bandwagon if I may. Part of the problem is that trance and hypnosis have been defined…
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Roskilde Commercial . . . banned but funny
by Brian David Phillips •
A commercial from the Roskilde Festival in Denmark . . . ROSKILDE . . . banned from telvision in Denmark. I wonder why?
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“Oh my God! There’s an axe in my head.”
by Brian David Phillips •
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Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome
by Brian David Phillips •
Learn something new every day . . . Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome . . . if you’re going to do something, do it right.
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Awful Plastic Surgery
by Brian David Phillips •
While some of the comments at Awful Plastic Surgery are unfair and unkind, many of the images are very telling and rather sad . . . plastic surgery can help many people with real difficulties but it can also do a lot of damage, particularly when it’s elective cosmetic work for imagined problems the person…
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The Mystery of Britney’s Breasts
by Brian David Phillips •
Odd . . . The Mystery of Britney’s Breasts . . . but playful.
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Those are really big . . . er . . . guns . . .
by Brian David Phillips •
Strange . . . and yet . . . so . . . very compelling . . . hot babe with guns . . . I don’t know why, it just . . . is . . . Not Safe For Work . . . Inappropriate for Underage or Viewers not interested in adult sexual…
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Son of Krypton
by Brian David Phillips •
In the New York Times . . .
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The Last Mile
by Brian David Phillips •
While the rest of the world gets on with nifty new toys like Uni-DSL, Taiwan’s subscribers are still hit with The Last Mile which maintains a defacto monopoly that effectively eliminates competition and slows down progress.
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Spot the Fake Smile!
by Brian David Phillips •
Can you Spot The Fake Smile? This is an interesting test of how well you can tell when a person is presenting you with a fake smile or a genuine one. Go ahead and see how good you are. The test shows you a series of twenty persons. You will see each image in turn.…
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Sleight Triggers and Triggers . . . more
by Brian David Phillips •
Some more questions, bits, and discussion on my recent posts about consensual adult recreational tranceplay (CART) in Triggers and Sleight Triggers in Trance Phenomenon and Hypnotic Response and the followup More on Triggers . . . Note: This essay is part of our series of Premium bonus items for folks who are members of this…
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Crossfire Musician
by Brian David Phillips •
Corbett Wall has a take worth reading on Scot Ezell’s predicament. . . Sounds like Scott might be in the crossfire. Scott has been living and performing legally in Taiwan since 1999 with a valid work permit no less but after a performance in a free cultural affairs event, he’s been hit with legal troubles…
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Bully Bosses
by Brian David Phillips •
Benedict Carey at the New York Times takes a look at
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NLP Curses
by Brian David Phillips •
Crossposting from one of my discussion lists . . . David Barron’s posted his ad for his new “NLP Curse” blocking product and so here’s my take. Others are free to agree or disagree. It’s been called an “oustanding ad” and, yes, in terms of straight out use of language to create demand, I agree,…
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Six of Nine Sex Scandal . . . of sorts
by Brian David Phillips •
When Jeri Ryan filed for divorce from her ex-husband, part of the complaint stated that he took her to sex clubs over her objections (she refused to go into the first one, when she did go into one he wanted her to have sex with him in front of another couple, and at the third…