June 24, 2009

Timothy Leary Narrates Jim Morisons Trip in in the 1991 Oliver Stone Movie

Link for this Post: The Doors Movie on [Blu-ray] Oliver Stone's movie about my generation made a a full generation ago (1991) is on HBO in HD. As I turn it on, Morison played by Val Kilmer is in front...

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November 11, 2008

Spaced Out Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties--- Book and Blog

Links for this Post: Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties by by Alastair Gordon. The Spaced Out Blog Spaced Out Media: A Short Film about the Spaced Out book While talking with a friend about Ramon Sender, who...

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April 28, 2008

The Search for A Female Aphrodesiac Continues

Link for this Post: The hunt for '"pink" Viagra -- in the St. Peters Times. Sigmund Freud once said, The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty...

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November 23, 2006

Calif. Couple Calls for Orgasm for Peace - Associated Press -- New York Times

Links for this Post: Calif. Couple Calls for Orgasm for Peace - New York Times (Associated Press) . The GlobalOrgasm.Org website A fun story Associated Press story published in the New York Times about a couple promoting a world-wide "synchronized"...

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October 24, 2006

Forbes.com Is Sex Necessary? -

Link: Is Sex Necessary? - Forbes.com. Yesterday I posted about the hot new aphrodisiac heading for market. Today we look at sex from a different perspective. Forbes.Com asks "Is Sex Necessary/" Well the bottom line of the article is that...

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October 22, 2006

Will The Soon-To-Hit-The-Market Uber-Aphrodisiac PT-141 Become the Biggest 'Club-Drug' Ever?

Links for this Post: "Sniff The Greatest Sex Drug... Ever " on the Culture Blog "Is the World Ready for Libido in a Nasal Spray?" By Julian Dibbell in New York Magazine (Google cached copy) New York Magazine in a...

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October 03, 2006

Why Do Humans Kiss? on Scienceline.Com

Why Do Humans Kiss? on Scienceline.Com This interesting post addresses the question of whether kissing is instinctual or a learned behavior. The answer is surprising. According to the this article: A big question is whether kissing is learned or instinctual....

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September 01, 2006

A Slow WiFi Hello from Burning Man 2006

Links for this Post: Burning Man 2006 Entheon Village This is the first Internet connection I have had in several days. I arrieved at Burning Man almost three days ago. I spent a lot of time the first two days...

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July 01, 2006

Growing Up Absurd -- Remembering Paul Goodman

"LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Paul Goodman" The following excerpt from this tribute blog post to Paul Goodman echoes my feelings about him perfectly: Before Theodore Rozak defined the counter culture as the social movement of the...

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March 31, 2006

My All-Time Favorite Movie "I Love You Alice B.Toklas" on Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches

Links for this post: (The first two links are from The Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches Blog) Love You Alice B. Toklas Frame by Frame Pt 1 I Love You Alice B. Toklas Frame by Frame Pt 2 gertrudeandalice.com: site dedicated...

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March 07, 2006

'Hippie Chimps' Fast Disappearing in Congo

Link for this post: 'Hippie Chimps' Fast Disappearing in Congo by Anjan Sundaram , Associated Press Writer I suppose that it is not unexpected that the a species of chimp known as the hippie chimp is headed for extinction. Unlike...

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December 26, 2005

Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary

Link for this post: Leary.ru A Website, dedicated to the scientific and public activity of Dr. Timothy Leary We Americans have been neglect in our maintenance of Leary.Com, the last project of Dr. Timothy Leary, in my estimation the greatest...

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November 08, 2005

"A Belly Dancer, a Snake Charmer": Naked Animal Reports on LA Burning Man Decompression Party

Links for this post are A Belly Dancer, a Snake Charmer" on Ron Cambell's Naked Animal blog Los Angeles Burning Man Regional Network - Decompression News!. Demonstrating how much out of the Burning Man loop I have gotten, an LA...

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October 22, 2005

Much Food for Thought: Greylodge Occult Review and GPOD

Links for this post: GPOD the Greylodge Occult Review Index. and The Antiquities of the Illuminati. While checking out some backlinks from Vision Thing on Technorati, I found a link coming from the Discordian Research Technology (DRT). I clicked on...

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October 21, 2005

The Eclectic Boing Boing: Geek porn: a call to arms

Link for this post: "Geek Porn" a call to arms" on Boing Boing The Boing Boing and Vision Thing blogs share something in common, we are categorized in Technorati as "eclectic" which I suppose is another way of saying diverse...

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August 10, 2005

Quantum-Tantric Sage Nick Herbert's Home Page

While we are on the topic of new physics, I can't forget my good friend from Santa Cruz, Nick Herbert's Home Page. Nick writes writes for Island Viewss and PIV, (edited by yours truly) under the pen name Doctor Jabir...

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August 02, 2005

Psymbiote: Hybrid Apparatus for Social Interface

. By way of Future Hi is the Psymbiote: " (a) Hybrid Apparatus for Social Interface." According to the Psybiote website, they are producing a CyberFashion Show for SIGGRAPH, the annual computer graphics bash.

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June 09, 2005

Cary Grant's Thoughts About LSD

Chapter Fourteen - Cary Grant Autobiography on the Ultimate Grant Pages tells the story of how he benefited from therapy with a then unknown experimental drug -- LSD. Here is an excerpt: "Now, I believe in caring for my health;...

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June 05, 2005

Future Hi: Mind States VI & States of Mind

I haven't been to Mindstates since I got some bad vibes from the organizeres at Mindstates 1. Since then, I have left it to others to contribute reviews of the event to my publication. I find many of the speakers...

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February 12, 2005

Paul Krassner on the 1994 Pentagon Program to Develop Aphrodisiac "Sex Bombs"

Paul Krassner, the "Zen Bastard" of Alternative Journalism writes on "Sex Bombs." in the New York Press newspaperr. Here an expert from the beginning of the article: Declassified documents reveal that the Pentagon spent six years and $11 million to...

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February 05, 2005

Make Way Kinsey -- It's The Global Sex Survey!

The Durex Global Sex Survey continues the tradition of Kinsey. One thing that the poll makes clear to me is that almost everyone is having sex more than I am. One blogger has conducted their own poll they call the...

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January 30, 2005

A Story About "Dr. Ecstasy" in the New York Times Magazine

Get a peek inside the laboratory of "Dr. Ecstasy" AKA Alexander T. Shulgin. "Dr. Ecstasy" by Drake Bennett in today's New York Times Magazine Here is an excerpt from the feature article: He might best be described not as a...

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January 18, 2005

her own eyes: Sexiness, thy name is Mac

Link: her own eyes: Sexiness, thy name is Mac. Posted by: almeda! 23.09.04 19:50

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January 17, 2005

The MetroSexual Tarot: "Where a queer eye for a straight guy collides with the ocult."

MetroSexual Tarot is a work-in-progress by Thomas Scoville and Hughes Hall. It comes by way of the Golden House-Sparrow Awards on Hedweb.

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September 29, 2004

A Kind of Sim City For Grownups: Virtual Sex Finds New Meaning on the Web

Updated: I received an email tonight titled Sim City for Grownups. Somehow the headliine got me and so I opened it. I found myself looking at a new website what allows its members to download special software for virtual sex....

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September 13, 2004

Lovelights@leary-eisner.com on New World Disorder Magazine

A few months ago, Jason Lubyk of the online magazine New World Disorder asked me to write something for the magazine. I imagine he expected an article but I asked him if I could publish a piece of fiction instead....

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August 23, 2004

New Research with Fruit Flies Shows Impaired Clock Genes Lead to Longer Sex

A promising bit of research by way of the New Scientist The article: Impaired clock genes boost fly sex times discusses some breakthrough work with fruit flies by which for the first time it has been demonstrated that the "so...

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August 11, 2004

They Must Be Out There Somewhere -- Similar Minds That Is

It may look a bit medieval from from the picture but SimilatMinds is actually one of the most modern of the new social software communities. You take a specially designed psychology test to join. Based on your results, you can...

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August 09, 2004

Cuddling Strangers the Latest Craze

You know its the "dog days of August" journalistically when stories like "Cuddling strangers latest craze for New York singles" By Herbert Lash show up on Reuters. If youare in NYC and want to get in on the action, you...

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June 26, 2004

Brave New World of Vassopressin Gene Thereapy

Brad's Ideas (from Brad Templeton) reports on an article by Anne Mcilroy, "Could voles help create the perfect husband?" on the Globe and Mail's web site. Brad comments: " Emory University scientists, taking one species of vole that is one...

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June 16, 2004

Addicted to Love: The Theory

Dave Pollard, on his Salon blog, How to Save the World, presents a systems and evolutiary discourse on the nature of love called Addicted to Love. Contrary to the implicatons you might might draw from the title, he presents love...

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May 05, 2004

Chat Naked

Now you can chat naked at Ichatnaked.Com. The site gives you a chance to sign up as a beta tester. They tell us on their home page, "Just send us an e-mail with a creative/nude photo of yourself and let...

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April 25, 2004

Internet Dating Stories on Smart Mobs

Two interesting internet dating stories on Howard Reingold's Smart Mobs blog. The first -- Study of Online Dating is about a study of a Swedish dating site published in the prestigious Nature. magazine. The other and probably more interesting story...

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April 17, 2004

New Orb Promises Instant Information

I found out about this innovative new device in an article on Wired News -- This Ain't Woody Allen's Orb . Although the article implies that the device is for stock market information only, apparently the company plans a wider...

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April 08, 2004

Take Sexblogs.Org Content Home in a Brown Paper Bag

Sexblogs.org is tastefully done and they allow you to take some of its content home in a brown paper bag. With This Weeks Gallery, Exclusive Fiction, Bedside Reading, Websites We Love and Featured Toy among its many sections, there is...

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