Steven Otero
Steve’s Weekly Dish 178.0.
March 11th, 2010
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Public Option Now!
Thanks Richard Metzger
Democrats, where there is a will there is a way to pass the public option. Why let the MINORITY rule? PUBLIC OPTION NOW!
Eight-Circuit Brain, pt. 1, origins
Antero Alli discusses his new book, THE EIGHT-CIRCUIT BRAIN: Navigational Strategies for the Energetic Body.
Intercourse vs. outercourse:
I’m interviewed here as a long time student and of sacred sexuality.
Coming of The Cryptoterrestrials
Over the course of the last 60 years or so, the world of ufology has spawned a truly huge number of books: many very good indeed, a not-insignificant number very bad,Just occasionally, however, a title comes along that is truly revolutionary, ground-breaking and - as far as its potential implications are concerned - thought-provoking in the extreme.
Jamie Gillis Remembered
He lived a life that most men would dream of but would be impossible for the average man (think of superman of porn).
Steve’s Weekly Dish 177.0
March 4th, 2010
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Richard Pacheco on Jamie Gillis in “Hindsight”
Jamie Gillis was the Pied Piper of people pursuing personal pleasure. He was like a viral infection of joy. Where he went, joy seemed to follow.
Will the last one at SF Gate / San Francisco Chronicle please turn out the lights?
Dear newspapers: your industry is dying & it is your own goddamned fault.
Scientists find mathematical formula for the perfect wife
Thanks Richard Metzger
A bride should be five years younger than her groom, should come from the same cultural background, and be the more intelligent of the pair if couples are to have a successful marriage, scientists have announced.
Intelligent men understand that for a relationship to be happy, their partner has to be happy,” she said.
Sex Lowers Blood Pressure,Improves our Health,& our Outlook on Life
Suffering as the great spiritual path was clearly created by a bunch of posthumously-famous, psychotic masochists who came up with mediocre ideas to get frightened, unhappy people to be OK with their misery. Fuck that.
Why We Really Need to Get Over the G-Spot
The G-spot has fueled endless debates among researchers and sexperts, while driving a mini sex industry. But does it matter at all?
Steve’s Weekly Dish 176.0.
February 25th, 2010 
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Jamie Gillis, a legend in adult films during the Golden Era of porn, is dead at 66
In 1976, porn had become ambitious with plots and increasingly expensive production values. Producer Radley Metzger had taken his Misty Beethoven actors to Paris to shoot on location. People in the business thought straight actors would soon be doing explicit sex in big-budget Hollywood films. He liked being in the avant-garde. “I felt like a missionary,” he said.
An Educated Man: Jamie Gillis, RIP
Jamie Gillis died last Friday after a long struggle with cancer. He was an actor and legend in the sex film business.
The Hidden Brain That Controls Your Life
How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives
Sex On Your Own Terms
Betty Dodson and Carlin Ross discuss love, relationships, orgasms, and sex on your own terms
Real Cougars Running Away From Marriage
Why does anyone want to get married? All the hopes and dreams we have about happily ever after seem to be nothing but a fairy tale illusion. It’s very possible, the “hard work” it requires to make a marriage work wrings out all the passion and joy from this union.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 175.0
February 18th, 2010
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How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
It may sound harsh, but in general,if men can’t make a contribution financially, they don’t have much to offer.
Orson Welles Double Feature
Orson Welles has been back in the news lately. First British director Michael Lindsay-Hogg will be taking a paternity test to either prove or disprove that he is the only son of the famed director. In Prodigal Sons, we discover that Welles second daughter, Rebecca, the child of Rita Hayworth (beauty) and Welles (brains), actually had the grandson Welles would have been happy over, but apparently never knew about! Marc was quickly put up for adoption in 1966, shortly after he was born.
Why Netflix Won’t Be the HBO of the 21st Century
Thinking of canceling your cable service for a steady diet of Netflix. Edward Jay Epstein explains why movie studio economics are crumpling the red envelope’s dreams of being the next HBO
The Strange Tale of Solarcon-6
Philip K Dick’s FBI file and the bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War
Adam Curtis Paranoia
A Film about how all of us have become Richard Nixon.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 174.0
February 11th, 2010
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Philip K. Dick’s legacy emerges from the maze of death
Few of Dick’s early acquaintances would have imagined he’d live — and die — in Orange County. In short, the author’s decade in Southern California had been as widely various, contradictory and extreme as the rest of his life — only more so. And it would continue to be in the aftermath of his death.
Why alpha men sometimes leave their brains behind
What pushes alpha men is the idea of winning whether it’s winning votes or winning women.To win, alpha men are inclined to take risks and they rarely if ever think they’re going to get caught
Being bad in Toronto the Good
The reason Mr. Giambrone is unfit to be mayor is not that he is horny.
The reason is that he’s an idiot. Did he learn nothing from Tiger Woods?
Michael Chabon on writers who can dwell between worlds
Michael Chabon’s crusade to save comics, science fiction, fantasy, horror and detective fiction from condescension.
Undiagnosed Asperger’s Leads To ‘Life As An Outsider
For most of his life, music critic Tim Page felt like an outsider. Restless and isolated, he was overstimulated and uneasy around others. Finally, when he was 45, Page was diagnosed with Asperger’s.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 173.0
February 4th, 2010
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Philip K Dick finds God & Madness at his doorstep
Those months of 1974 were when Dick either lost his mind completely or was visited, ravishingly, by God.
Truth, not hypocrisy, will set you free.
Old enough for Sex but not enough for Toys
The age of consent in the United States varies by state, but is often around 16. Buying sex toys, on the other hand, is strictly limited in all states to 18 years and older. Why the contrast?
Terence Young James Bond Creator ?
Who created James Bond?’ The obvious answer of course is Ian Fleming. But who really made the character come to life?
Wrapped in an Enigma, Hidden in a Film Archive
IF the filmmaker J. X. Williams didn’t exist, someone would have had to invent him. And if someone had, it would have been done in one of the darker corners of contemporary cinema: the world of found footage
Steve’s Weekly Dish 172.0.
January 28th, 2010
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RAW From Beyond
The legendary American novelist, philosopher, essayist, editor, playwright, futurist, libertarian, and self-described agnostic mystic Robert Anton Wilson’s once lost studio sessions are now a postmortem release from The Original Falcon Press. Read my comments how RAW saved my life.
Sex Addiction: A B.S. Excuse for Not Thinking
Sexual compulsions are real and they harm the person in their grip as well as others. But treating them like a problem — something to be ‘fixed’ — isn’t working.
California School District Bans Dictionary Over “Oral Sex” Definition
It’s 2010 and we’re banning dictionaries in California classrooms? Fasten your seatbelt if you want to hear what Lawrence Lanoff have to say about that!
Davos 2010: Sarkozy calls for revamp of capitalism
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for a fundamental rethink of capitalism in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
Avatar: The Psychedelic Worldview and the 3D Experience
James Cameron’s Avatar, as well as adding a new level of psychedelic visual richness to the 3D film, also features a good deal of these subversive messages and ideas. It is as anti-civilizational and anti-technological as a John Zerzan book, psychedelic like a Terrence McKenna talk, and glorifies the indigenous and shamanic world view.
Souldish 171.0
January 21st, 2010
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Are You A Sex Addict?
Tiger Woods and David Duchovny got shamed and pushed into signing up
for sex addiction treatment. Their crime? BEING MEN. Humans are not
naturally monogamous.People get labeled sex addicts when they have a higher sex drive than their partner. Mismatched libidos is a very common problem.
Sex Isn’t an Addiction
Proponents define sex addiction as any kind of sexual behavior that causes stress to you, your family, or your work life. In theory, this sounds like a fair way to define it, but in practice, this means that if your coworkers or family members are serious prudes, homophobes, or have massive hang-ups, then you are fair game for being called a sex addict.
Robert B Parker who helped revive the hard-boiled private eye genre through his Spenser novels has died
His wife found him ay his desk , a writer till the end. RIP.
Why Does Science Fiction Invent New Religions?
Though many say ninja monk flick Book of Eli is about Christianity, it’s actually about rebooting the old church for a new world. Like many SF stories about the emergence of a new faith, Eli questions religion while defending it.
More Men Marrying Wealthier Women
Men now are increasingly likely to marry wives with more education and income than they have, and the reverse is true for women, said Paul Fucito, spokesman for the Pew Center. In recent decades, with the rise of well-paid working wives, the economic gains of marriage have been a greater benefit for men.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 170.0
January 14th, 2010
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A fond farewell to Aunt Peg
Juliet Carr, better known by her screen name — Juliet Anderson — and adored by fans as her adult film persona, Aunt Peg, died peacefully in her sleep Monday night, January 11, at her home in Berkeley
Robert Anton Wilson: The Lost Studio Session
First recorded in Chicago in 1994, this previously unreleased audio session with the renowned Robert Anton Wilson has been stored away for fifteen years…and almost lost entirely. If Bob knew how many synchronicities surround the rediscovery and release of this “lost” studio session, he would be chuckling in that half jolly, half mischievous way of his. If you believe in any kind of afterlife, maybe you can imagine him laughing right now. I like that image: Bob the laughing Buddha, still having one over on us from the great beyond.
Fabled Bodhi Tree bookstore closes after four decades
Richard Metzger on the Bodhi Tree With Amazon and Barnes & Noble taking massive bites out of the profits of niche booksellers—Shirley MacLaine probably shops on Amazon—it’s hard to run a business on fumes. Even storied operations like the Bodhi Tree, in the end have their life cycles. I wonder what it will reincarnate as?
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Thee Psychick Bible (Part 2)
Richard Metzger’s Second installment of a in-depth conversation with cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on the occasion of the publication of THEE PSYCHICK BIBLE: A New Testameant, a compendium of Gen’s writing on magick, the occult and sexuality
Top 5 Unsolved Brain Mysteries
OK, so the brain is a bit more complex than Encyclopedia Brown’s nemesis, Bugs Meany. But with the brain only weighing in at 3 pounds (1.4 kg), you could be forgiven for wondering if neuroscientists are just big slackers. As it is, mysteries galore abound in those 3 pounds, and until fairly recently, scientists lacked the equipment to accurately study the brain. With the advent of brain imaging technology, it’s possible that they’ll continue to learn more.
Steve’s Weekly Dish 168.0.
January 7th, 2010
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Thanks Richard Metzger
Now what?
What are we going to do next? How are we going to live? This is what we need to be asking each other.
Sex Ed in Schools and Talking to Your Kids About Sex.
I think we have no choice but to rely on each parents’ right to do sex ed teaching as their beliefs reflect. Once the kids move out of the house and they turn 18, then they can start doing their own homework
Dominick Ohrbeck - Reptilian Marketing vs. The HeartBrain Model
Dominick Ohrbeck from heartbrain.net discusses Reptilian Marketing vs. The HeartBrain Model.
Love’s new frontier
It’s not monogamy. But it’s not cheating or polygamy, either. It’s called polyamory, and with hundreds practicing the lifestyle in and around Boston, is liberal Massachusetts ready to accept it?
Take Your Money Out of the Hands of the Banking Oligarchs
How? For starters, you could move your money to a small bank.