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"Love's Easy Tears"... 7/30/2010: If John Louis reads this, I'd rather not link to the New York Times owned Santa Rosa Press Democrat right now, but I have to here to recollect that the time that I met Donald Chu, Byron Craighead (2010 Olympic Winter Games U.S. Medical Staff, Trainer/ATC, Bobsled) drove the vehicle I was in, and I had been invited by Steven Winter 

“I am also upfront and honest with the athletes and the coaches,” Craighead said. “To tell a lie, because that’s what someone wants to hear, that lie is only good for the present. It will catch up to you and you will lose all credibility. And then no one will have faith in you.”

And then there is Craighead’s style of massage.

“I don’t give frou-frou massages,” he said. “When I work the soft tissue, I want to achieve results for the athlete. I used to have a vise grip. When I would massage an athlete for the first time, I’d tape two tongue depressors together and ask the athlete to put it in his mouth. They’d ask why. I’d say, ‘Because I don’t want you to chip a tooth when I start massaging you.’ Every once in a while someone would laugh. So I’d start and they would be screaming for the tongue depressors in a few seconds.”

Craighead is not shy about it, not at all: “I’m an enthusiastic, passionate guy.”...

The closer I get to turning 40 on October 5, 2010, the more I keep freaking out...

Meeting James made me cry... it brought up incredibly strong memories of KARIN, who once wrote out the lyrics to "Fade To Black" to me in a love letter...

I will try to stay focused if I meet James again... Forgive, Forget, Breathe...

Meeting James made me cry...
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35.7% of the California Massage Therapy Council advocates using Massage Therapy as a front for promoting prostitution. 

This includes: Chair of the Board-Beverly May; Chair of the Credentials Committee-Bob Benson; Chair of the Public Policy and Local Government Committee-Mark Dixon; Board Member-Keith Grant; Board Member-Dixie Wall... these are just the people I know and have argued with about this issue...

(Some of this commentary was included in my "personal statement" when I recently applied to attend Law School at JFK University, though I have yet to truly decide that I want to attend Law School...)

I am considering attending the upcoming 27th International Conference on Shamanism, Healing and Transformation Wisdom of Our Ancestors-Bridge to The Future so I can meet Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD who has written:

...Zuni pueblo in New Mexico practice a technique very similar to the high-velocity adjustment of the neck and spine popularized as chiropractic... ...Hopi people and their practices were the source of inspiration for a type of massage now called Hakomi.. ...Discussion exists among Native American scholars as to whether A.J. Still, the father of American osteopathic medicine, who was also the physician for the Shawnee Nation for more than 20 years, lifted much of what became osteopathic medicine or chiropractic from Shawnee healing practices. The Shawnee were originally native to northern Kentucky and southern Ohio and were neighbors to the Cherokee, with whom they share many similarities in bodywork practices...

I was talking to a friend recently who told me that she personally believes that the "discovery" of chiropractic by Palmer fails to mention the influence brought by Chinese laborers Palmer met...

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Wednesday, July 7, 2010- The mall also hosts an aqua park, a wave pool, massage halls, spa and a 37-meter drop tower

...The opening of the mall coincided with the anniversary of Astana’s founding and Kazak President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s 70th birthday and hosted prominent guests including Turkish, Russian, United Arab Emirates, Armenian, Tajikistan and Ukrainian presidents...“art of mastery.”...

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42 seconds of MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL

World Magnetic Tour - 2010

Metallica to play Christchurch, New Zealand  09/22/2010  SOLD OUT IN 5 MINUTES!!!

"truly incredible!": Second show in Christchurch, New Zealand at CBS Canterbury Arena on September 21!  SOLD OUT IN 28 MINUTES!

After playing Christchurch, Metallica heads straight to Tokyo for back-to-back shows 09/25 and 9/26. ON SALE NOW

right now the main thing is to not have a heart attack on stage.

People were asking why I was dancing around like a clown

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Acupuncture Today, July, 2010 What's In A Name? by William Morris, DAOM, PhD, LAc

...truth be told, I was also chosen because of a willingness to take time to write about the "hot topics" that we all face... It is first prudent for us to discuss, as a field, the name we use to identify ourselves...

(MPA Media publishes: Acupuncture Today, Massage Today, and Dynamic Chiropractic.)

Big in Finland!
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Swans sample...

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I would like to congratulate you on the 59th CIDESCO World Congress & Exhibition held in Stockholm, Sweden. I understand CIDESCO Congress is a very significant and meaningful event where global skincare professionals can enhance their friendship and share information. The 60th CIDESCO World Congress & Exhibition 2011 is scheduled to be held in the Republic of Korea, organized by Korea Central Esthetician’s Association.
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** June 10, 2010 - 12:45 PM PST- Parked next to California Senator Diane Feinstein (stunt double?) while she was sitting in her car eating frozen yogurt... Celebrity encounters...it's not surprising really, being I can drive to Diane's house from where I am sitting now in about 20 minutes...I've come across Nancy Pelosi and George Schultz walking around San Francisco in the past...

**San Francisco- May 14, 2010, ACTCM is excited to announce that it will launch a post-graduate TCM Dermatology Specialization Certificate Program in January of 2011...first Chinese medicine college in the U.S. to offer a specialization certificate in TCM Dermatology

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11:26AM BST 05 May 2010... Lord Sebastian Coe - a Conservative - chairman of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics - says he is relieved that not one party has made political football out of the General Election...''The Olympics have not tumbled from the lips of a single politician in this campaign..."

...the victor of the election will be keen to massage and manipulate and boost national pride while inflicting tough decisions elsewhere on the economy...

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Monday, May 10, 2010 -Mumbai- ...there is need to establish guidelines for spas and a regulatory body ...approached the Quality Council of India to come up with a document binding on all spas

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Spa Solage, Calistoga, Napa Valley, California

                                     CAPELLA Suite – Our most indulgent studio offers a spacious private patio with jetted hot tub.
             Features a plush king bed, separate living area, two 37" plasma TVs, and a pebbled-floor steam shower with separate deluxe bathtub.
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Tom Mitchell was my Sports Psychology teacher...
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According to Desiree Moores, who said this while she was the manager of Spa Radiance, 'Brian is the best Massage Therapist I have ever met'

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Ken Zankel

Past President, Golden Gate Restaurant Association

Ken Zankel is passionate about San Francisco restaurants. A native New Yorker,

he switched coasts more than a decade ago and has firmly entrenched himself

in the restaurant community here.

After working at Visa USA as the Director of Restaurant Industry Marketing, Ken

opened Zinzino Ristorante in San Francisco in 1995. Ken garnered accolades for

Zinzino from the James Beard Foundation, the San Francisco Chronicle and the

San Francisco Examiner before selling the establishment in 2001. In 1999, he

opened The Grove Café on Chestnut Street, which was joined by its sister

establishment, The Grove-Fillmore, in 2002. These two restaurants represent the

combining of Ken’s great loves -- music, food, and design – to create warm,

inviting, rustic, hip environments.

Ken has served on the GGRA Board since 1999 and relishes the opportunity to

serve the city’s restaurateurs. An alumnus of Skidmore College, Ken also holds an

MBA from Columbia University.

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Zankel’s bequest to Skidmore of $46 million is the largest gift in the College’s history. Of the bequest, $15 million went to the Arthur Zankel Music Center

Zankel served on the board of directors of Citigroup, Travelers Property-Casualty, and other corporations, and was a trustee of the UJA Federation, the New York Foundation, Carnegie Hall, and Skidmore College. He and his wife, Judy, made a major donation to Carnegie Hall, which led to the construction of a new Carnegie concert space named in their honor.

Zankel’s connections to Skidmore were many. Two of his four sons graduated from Skidmore, Kenneth in 1982 and James in 1992, as did a nephew, Harun Zankel, Class of 2001, and a daughter-in-law, Pia Scala Zankel, Class of 1992. As a Skidmore trustee, he was known for his astute leadership of the board’s investment committee—particularly for his role in shepherding the College’s endowment—and for his incisive contributions to discussions, frequently enhanced by his sense of humor.

Zankel endowed a professorship in management and the liberal arts and the related Zankel Lecture Series, which fosters discussion of business issues from a societal and ethical perspective.

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Federer is merely toned. His forearm is sinewy rather than resembling a side of beef, and tells of someone who strikes the ball with beautiful fluidity and an economy of effort that minimises damage to his body...'The ones who inspire me are those who can do it again and again at the highest level - Valentino Rossi, Michael Schumacher, Tiger, Michael Phelps. It's amazing to me that I have been able to do something similar... 'I just sat there for a few minutes on my own in the quiet and took it all in....

Smile...Smile...Smile 

Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law

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 I am asking you for help, this is a challenge for me and I realize I will only be able to work to improve this situation if I make myself accountable to all of you.

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Dear Sir
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Why did I have to go to a website in Ghana to read this???

Does the media still deserve the accolade the Fourth Estate? Is appreciating the general performance of significant sections the concept of an illusion or outmoded or anachronistic or a simple nightmarish joke?

"...staffed with illiterates, untrained persons, charlatans, yes-men, impostors and soli-minded false journalists, even in the persons of some editors who cannot write simple editorials or common news items, disgracing this noble profession..."

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20 Mar 2010, 0108 hrs IST, NYT News Service US hotel chains expand into Asia, create new options

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March 20, 2010- ''Gay and homo are words wealthy and educated people use,'' he says. ''The people around here call us gur [raw sugar] or mitha [sweet].''

...Young homosexual men in Mumbai often move between multiple city identities including sex worker, massage boy, student and even Bollywood film extra...

...''In India we have this great contract of silence. It's like 'you know and I know' and it's only when we start talking about it that it becomes a problem.''...

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06.04.10 Gulf Film Festival,held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Selection Of 37 In-competition Shorts At Gulf Film Festival Depicts Myriad Facets Of Life In The Gulf

03/22/2010, Issuance of new licenses for massage parlours stopped by Dubai

 

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Wednesday, 7 April 2010, The 366-room Renaissance Moscow Monarch Centre has opened under a franchise agreement with Interstate Hotels & Resorts

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Thursday, April 29 - 2010; Dubai Healthcare City, a member of Tecom Investments, today announced the launch of Royal Ayurveda Clinic, the first in the region to provide a full range of Ayurvedic medical services

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05.19.10, 37 Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses meet with US president

"sometimes there are misunderstandings that have to be resolved"

May 18th 2010, 11:11 PM, Obama meets with 37 Jewish pols for a 'group hug and group gripe'

"it was not a feel-good meeting - everyone spoke their minds and from the heart"

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March 19, 2010- French Parliamentarian Chantal Brunel, who was appointed head of the country's sexual equality watchdog last month, argues in a new book on violence against women that the reintroduction of bordellos would protect prostitutes from exploitation, trafficking and physical attack.

(Does she talk about prostitutes who are not women?)

...(Brunel) says many of the country's 90,000 prostitutes have been pushed out of city centers and are "now hidden in woods and on the Internet, where it is far easier to harm someone." Hundreds of women are also believed to have quit the country for work in legal brothels just across the border in Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

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Wednesday, 17 February 2010: 501-room Shanghai Marriott Hotel Changfeng Park opens its doors... The ceremony included an additional flare with a display of high-profile Ducati motorcycle models...always in pursuit of excellence...Guests can also experience the ultimate relaxation at Marriott’s award-winning Quan Spa, where they are rejuvenated by hydrotherapeutic treatments and massages using pure essential oils and natural fruit extracts

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UK POLITICS:Published: 7:30AM GMT 15 Feb 2010: Massage parlours and escort agencies will be banned from advertising their services in newspapers...The new law would set clear guidelines about which advertisements will be banned by defining the difference between brothels masquerading as massage parlours and spas offering therapeutic massages...

...Publications carrying advertisements for prostitution could be fined £10,000 under the new law, which will be put forward in Labour’s election manifesto...

March 9, 2010- PinkNews.co.uk, ...The law will also affect rent boy adverts, which are carried in the back of many gay magazines...London-based QX is one gay magazine which carries ads for male escorts...

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Posted : Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:20:37 GMT Author : Kimptons Vero Beach Hotel & Spa

(Hi Kay!)

Smile

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The Ministry of Railways may adopt a name-based train ticket system in the future, depending on travelers' responses to a trial operation at 37 railway stations this Spring Festival

Only in Marin County?
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"I fell as suffering prey to the tortures of the city" - Kahlil Gibran

There is a building in San Rafael where Star Wars
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The Empire Strikes Back (the best one) was made... I went to a business meeting there in 2009...
I heard Les Claypool has an office there now...
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My landlord charged me full rent while illegal
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electricians completely trashed my entire apartment and everything in it...

Have you ever seen the movie "Faster"?
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Asia gave me a copy of the 12/09 HBR...
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Sorry I missed it. I was at work.
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...Margaret Hearst expressed disdain for Kevin Stone's "celebrity" atmosphere...

Franz Klammer spoke highly of Kevin Stone...
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In 1987 Klaus Heidegger retired from competitive skiing and joined his wife in New York to help run Kiehl's
((( Oprah Winfrey wandered off in mid-sentence – to massage a blob of Kiehl's lotion into her hands )))
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Kevin Stone

Damarise
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(...1989/1990, when I first started formally studying massage...)

...Thank you, Susie...

...Thank you, Kay...

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 Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The passing of Dr. Richard E. Erhard, PT, DC

NAIOMT is greatly saddened by the passing of Dr. Richard E. Erhard, PT, DC on October 3, 2009 after a long battle with cancer. Dick Erhard was the complete physical therapist; clinician, educator, and researcher.

“To me Dick was (and will always be) one of the 'gentle giants' of OMT. I shall always remember him as one of the greatest ambassadors of peace and understanding between chiropractors and PTs. What a huge loss.” Erl Pettman

“Dick was a true autonomous practitioner and the first president of IFOMT. He was also a great friend and an example to all”. Stanley Paris

“He was a great human being and a great professional. We will miss his smiling face forever”. Joe Farrell

“Dick was a giant in our profession. He was one of the first three US PTs to pass the first international manual therapy examination in the Canary Islands in 1973. He was the first president of IFOMT and one of the eight founding fellows of the AAOMPT. He, with Rick Bowling established an integrative model for evaluating and treating low back pain and published on the evaluation of the sacro-iliac joint in the initial issue of on orthopedic journal that would later develop into the respected journal, JOSPT. His seminal works, including the “treatment-based classification of low back pain” spurred the rise in evidence-based practice in manual physical therapy.
Dick felt restrained by the lack of autonomy as a PT and trained to become a chiropractor. He, however always held on to his PT base of a biomechanical model of systematic evaluation and treatment of the spine. He was active in teaching, writing and scientific pursuits even after he had been diagnosed with his terminal condition.
Dick and I served as the original examiners for the newly formed AAOMPT. He had a great sense of humor, and an infectious laugh. He inspired those around him to excel. His legacy lives on through the many people he mentored at the University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere. He was my friend and mentor and I will miss him dearly”. Bill O’Grady

A memorial service was held at the University of Pittsburgh on October 16 2009, attended by many past presidents of AAOMPT and friends. NAIOMT sent flowers and condolences to his wife and family.

At the AAOMPT conference in Washington DC, October 17th, friends and AAOMPT’s founding members paid tribute to this great physical therapist and read a tribute from Freddy Kaltenborn. We also learned that Dick’s family was amazed by the outpouring of tributes from around the country and around the world. They knew him primarily as the man who loved to be home with his family, and to go fishing and hunting.

Sincerely,

Ann Porter Hoke on behalf of the NAIOMT Board of Directors.
  

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Friday, October 30, 2009- The Brown Daily Herald: The Rhode Island Senate Thursday night passed a compromise version of a bill banning indoor prostitution

The General Assembly also passed a bill that would allow University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College and Community College of Rhode Island students to apply Advanced Placement and other credits towards an accelerated three-year bachelor’s program.

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How many known prostitutes and/or advocates for using "Massage Therapy" as a front for promoting prostitution are currently on the California Massage Therapy Council???

I count 5, at a bare minimum.

I took this picture when I lived at 513 Bush St.
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Thank you, Will
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...I remember you telling me your true feelings about Harry Britt...

Harry Britt was appointed to fill Harvey Milk's seat after Milk died... Harry Britt was first appointed to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in January 1979 by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, succeeding Harvey Milk who was killed at City Hall along with Mayor George Moscone by former Supervisor Dan White.  Britt was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1980, 1984, and 1988.  Britt served as President of the Board of Supervisors from 1989-90.

Britt introduced domestic partner legislation in 1982 which was passed by the Board of Supervisors, but vetoed by Mayor Feinstein. In 1989, under Britt's leadership, the board passed domestic partner legislation, which was signed by Mayor Art Agnos. However, voters repealed the domestic partnership law by initiative; a modified version was reinstated by another voter initiative, 1990's Proposition K, also written by Britt.  Britt ran unsuccessfully for the 5th Congressional District of California in 1987, narrowly losing to Nancy Pelosi. He was unsuccessful in his race against Mark Leno for the California Assembly in 2002.

When I met Tim Barnett in 2006 he gave me this:
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I remain surprised to this day that his visit received virtually zero media coverage.
Thank you, Margaret
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A brief comment... Thursday Oct 29, 2009 Updated 10:40 AM PT...

I'm thinking about how Erica told me that she had never met her father, and that her fears of abandonment, of being alone, are some of her many "issues".

Orlando told me that somewhat recently Erica and her father had some sort of contact, or chance at contact, but that Erica's father flaked out.

I feel so sad for Erica sometimes.

I first fell in love with Erica as she stood with two of the girls she used to be a nanny for (this is the job she left so she be near me). 

I first fell in love with Erica in "mother" mode...

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Erica read my essay about Jerry Norman Uelsmann...
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Did I tell her that my photography teacher knew Ansel Adams?

Erica kept the original version of this collage:
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As far as collages go, it's not my best work, but why did she keep it?

Consider the symbolic value.  Consider the fact that I asked Erica to marry me while giving her this collage... 

Monday Oct 19, 2009 Updated 7:44 PM PT: Tonight I talked with a man named Orlando, who apparently recently ended a relationship with Erica O'Connor.  We shook hands over the phone.  Orlando told me that Erica has been to this website, and while on the one hand, her initial story about me began with Erica saying I was some sort of stalker guy, Erica eventually told him that our relationship was "complicated", and Orlando seems to have come to appreciate my side of the story enough that we may talk again at some point in the future.  As I pointed out to him, at least she didn't try to get Nathan Dorris to run you over with his car, or try to send you to jail. 

Orlando told me that Erica is facing hard financial times, a circumstance which I certainly have compassion for.  She no longer lives with Nathan Dorris and now lives in Corte Madera.  The money she inherited from her grandmother is gone.  I wonder if Erica appreciates the fact that I essentially helped her get her current job working the front desk at Massage Envy Sausalito (Clinic 137)?  I wonder if Erica recalls that she took a pay cut from her previous job to work at Massage Envy San Rafael, a job which, according to Michael Woo, she took specifically so she could be near me...

Orlando is an accountant in San Francisco, and got me to think specifically about the financial impact Erica has had on me so far.  After Erica had me sacked from my $1000 per week job, I was essentially unemployed for nine months.  There goes $36,000.  Legal fees paid to Steve Duditch: $4000.  Underemployed from January 2009 to January 2010, when compared to the $1000 per week I was making before Erica broke up with me: a loss of a minimum of $1000 per month...

Falling in love with Erica cost me over $50,000?

Will Erica and I ever even speak again?

Orlando told me that Erica had never mentioned anything to him about the book "The New Erotic Photography", published by Taschen, edited by Dian Hanson and Eric Kroll.

I scanned, heavily censored, and uploaded a copy of page 449, from the edition of "The New Erotic Photography" that Erica gave to me.  I feel deeply conflicted when I consider posting it.

I wonder what George Pitts, or Taschen, would have to say about that?  What would Erica have to say?

Erica got mad at me when I offered to pay her for modeling for me, just as she got mad at me when I offered to pay her the first time she bought me lunch (a pizza slice).

How can Erica continue to treat me this way, as an artist, a friend, a lover, a human being?

The first time I asked Erica to marry me,
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in the College of Marin parking lot, I gave her 3 satin roses & 3 teddy bears.
(Erica kept the original three teddy bears
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and three satin flowers)
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Photo below taken by: Krista Fechner
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(Krista has a BA from Brown University... Radio DJ at WBRU AM at Brown University 1985-86)
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The play lasted 37 minutes...
Thank you, Alice.
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We had the day off from work at Massage Envy...
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...later, Erica lied to Massage Envy about me. I lost my job. Erica got a raise...

- a life wherein I found it well to accept a name - my present one - which is very common and carries no meaning.
 H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
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Malicious prosecution

The last time I saw Erica O'Connor, aka "Holly Hearse", (August 21, 2009) she was working the front desk at Massage Envy in Sausalito, California (Clinic #0137).

[Please note that while I helped Erica O'Connor get hired at Massage Envy San Rafael (Erica failed her first interview, and was only given a second interview due to my giving her a positive reference and encouraging the manager to give her a second chance), after we became a couple and then broke-up, she in turn lied about me to the manager, the owners, and various co-workers and friends so she could have me maligned and "indefinitely suspended" from my position as Massage Envy San Rafael's #1 most popular employee.]

Massage Envy San Rafael Massage Therapist, Michael Woo, specifically told me that the reason Erica O'Connor was applying for a job at Massage Envy San Rafael was so that she could be near me, and seduce me.

The only reason Erica had to be angry with me, to lie about me to the San Rafael Police Department, the Marin County Sherrif's office, the Marin County Superior Court and others is this: I insisted that Erica tell Nathan Dorris about our relationship.  (Erica was living with Nathan Dorris during our entire relationship.)

"If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you."

Really?  How is it then, that through false statements, perjury, malicious prosecution, and an absolutely frivolous lawsuit, Erica O'Connor had a "Temporary Restraining Order" filed against me without my having proper legal representation?  This TRO stripped away my Second Amendment Rights, as well as my right to peacefully and freely travel for three years.

At no point have I ever threatened Nathan Dorris or Erica O'Connor in any way.  Nathan Dorris threatened me repeatedly, coming to my apartment and even trying to run me over with his car.  He got away with it, completely. 

(I should point out that Erica O'Connor sued me twice.  The first time Erica sued me I hired Steven Duditch as my attorney.  (I almost hired David Vogelstein as my attorney, but he was unavailable to take my case at the time.)  I won the first trial, but it cost me $4,000.  Then Erica sued me again.  For the second lawsuit, I could not afford an attorney.  At the time of the second trial I hadn't worked full-time in several months and could barely afford to pay my rent.  I should also point out that in both these cases, Erica sued me for free claiming, "I ask the court to waive the filing fee because [the accused] has used or threatened to use violence against me, has stalked me, or has acted or spoken in some other way that makes me reasonably fear violence."  None of these things have ever happened.)

    An interesting side note- there is a "massage/spa" brothel next door to Steve Duditch's law office in San Rafael. 

Sometimes I wish I hadn't erased the voicemail Erica left me after we had gone out together clubbing at

 Bondage-A-Go-Go in San Francisco with a bunch of friends from work at Massage Envy in San Rafael.

She knew I was pissed off that she had ignored me at the club because she wanted to keep our relationship some sort of secret from certain people. 

I tried to hold her hand, and she walked away...

So she called me later that night, crying, asking to come over to my apartment, telling me she understood if I refused to ever see her again.

She stood outside my apartment building and threw her fancy leather boots at my second-story window trying to wake me up.

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Which leaves me contemplating law school again.

If I had that recording of Erica crying for me, I would play it for Ed and Lou (two of the co-owners of Massage Envy San Rafael).

Would I play it for you?

"nothing more than a friend"
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"nothing more than a friend"
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Two days before Nathan Dorris tried to kill me...
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...he left a note for me on my doorstep...
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"Silence is an act of aggression"-Robert Sapolsky
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Ruth Werner is President
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of the Massage Therapy Foundation
Men wearing earrings are not tolerated
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at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences...

This website's most recent update/editing/revision: Friday April 23, 2010 11:37 AM PT

Very Good News!  As of February 20, 2010 my Transunion, Experian, and Equifax credit reports for Sallie Mae all state:

Status: Open/Never late. - and my credit scores have been updated high enough to where I can now realistically consider returning to graduate school...

 
   TransUnion Experian Equifax
 
    788     776      783    

After over a year of trying to get someone at Sallie Mae, Transunion, etc. to recalculate the obvious mistakes on my account which had destroyed my credit and nearly made me homeless, someone listened!

(actually, this response is quite prompt when compared to the fact that the American Massage Therapy Association has NEVER returned my phone calls.  I've been waiting since 2003...)

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The University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences was founded by Stanley Paris, who was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on August 13, 1937.  Stanley Paris was appointed to the New Zealand Olympic Team as a physiotherapist for the Summer Games in Rome in 1960, and Mexico City in 1968. In 2006 Stanley Paris received the highest honor awarded annually by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) in delivering the 37th Mary McMillan Lecture.   So the two famous former residents of New Zealand I have met with are Stanley Paris and Tim Barnett.  I recall that while it is true that my reasons for withdrawing from the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences were due to my disappointment with the quality of instruction provided, I was also unhappy with a dress-code policy of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences ruling that male students were not allowed to wear earrings on campus.  It's true I rarely wear earrings these days, but it is also true that both my ears are pierced.  I was wearing earrings in both ears when I met Tim Barnett, in fact.

Life Chiropractic College West has pictures of males wearing earrings in it's public relations materials, and allows male student interns to wear earrings in it's Health Center.  

All I want to do right now is go back to graduate school... business? law? chiropractic? acupuncture? naturopathic medicine (including midwifery)? psychology? art? writing?

Would I consider going back to the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences and completing the clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy, particularly now that they have a campus in San Diego?  (Last time I wrote them, they returned my letter unopened.)

I wish I could find sponsorship of some kind...

Is business booming?

How is business over at Ferrari and Maserati of San Francisco (which is not in San Francisco, but Mill Valley) these days?

One of my coworkers, a graduate of one of the "best" massage schools in Illinois, told me she was astonished by some work I did with her shoulders, saying it was the best massage she'd ever had in her life. 

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Why did Nathan Dorris try to run me over with his car?

Why do we sometimes care so deeply about symbols, words, flags, jewelry, etc.? 

Why did Erica O'Connor keep the three teddy bears and three satin roses that I gave her the first time I asked her to marry me, in the College of Marin parking lot after her performance in A Midsummer Night's Dream, instead of returning them, as Nathan promised?

Why did she keep the collage I made for her, a collage very much about our relationship?

(Items returned by Nathan Dorris with this note included: Bizarro! The Art & Technique of Special Make-up Effects by Tom Savini, a pair of leopard-print fuzzy Sanita clogs, even obscure items, like a scrap of paper with my phone number on it, but for some strange reason, no collage, no satin flowers, and no tiny teddy bears...)

Why did I mail a postcard to Nathan Dorris, a collage made from his own handwriting, saying, "please return everything boyfriend"?

Why did Erica buy me chicken soup and organic fair-trade flowers from Whole Foods

Why did Erica lie, lie, and lie yet again about me?

Why did Erica give me a copy of "The New Erotic Photography" (edited by Dian Hanson and Eric Kroll, published by Taschen in 2007), and refuse to take it back when I tried to return it to her?

Who is the model on page 449, photographed by George Pitts?

The collage I gave Erica, which she kept, included a receipt from Earthworks in Santa Rosa:

1" 14K White Gold Tiny Butterfly Necklace  $370.00

10% Discount (because my best friend's wife was the salesperson)  -$37.00

$370 - $37 = $333

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333 ft. tall George Washington Masonic Memorial
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When Erica posted this picture on her myspace page
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Did she credit the photographer? Did she mention whose motorcycle she is on? Why?
When I gave Erica a copy of this picture
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she swooned, fell into my arms, and almost started crying...

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Fascia Research Congress

The Fascia Research Congress proposes to gather together scientists involved in the research of the body's connective tissue matrix (fascia) with professionals involved in the therapeutic manipulation of this bodywide structural fabric. The information presented at the Fascia Research Congress will also be of interest to all who labor in the vineyard of 'Spatial Medicine' - healing the body through changing mechanical relationships (and their proprioception).

Thus the primary audiences are:

Scientists who are either engaged or interested in –

Biomechanics of ligaments and other dense fibrous connective tissues · Biomedical Researchers · Connective tissue research · Gait & postural dynamics · Matrix biology · Musculoskeletal dynamics · Orthopaedics · Rehabilitation · Rheumatology · Sports medicine

The emphasis and centerpiece of this conference will be the presentation of the latest and best scientific fascia research from around the world. The Fascia Research Congress will be a valuable resource of data, new ideas, and networking for researchers working in many areas of study involving the human fasciae.

Clinicians who should attend –

Acupuncturists · Athletic Trainers · Chiropractors (DC's) · Energetic, hands-on healers (Therapeutic Touch) · Exercise Teachers · Massage Therapists · Nutritionists · Osteopaths · Personal Trainers · Physiatrists and other physicians practicing neuromusculoskeletal medicine or manual medicine · Physical Therapists (PT's) · Practitioners of Structural Integration (e.g., Rolfers®) · Prolotherapists (Sclerotherapy) · Rehabilitation Specialists...

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Brian at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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6/5/08, In partnership with the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College, Berkeley

When I (Brian) read this: "...sexuality is not generally life-threatening unless one recklessly engages in unprotected sex or has sex with the partner of a jealous mate." - by Eugene Schoenfeld, Friday, June 19, 2009, in the San Francisco Chronicle, I thought about how lucky I am to be alive.

I thought about the time Nathan Allan Dorris tried to run me over with his car.   I thought about how the San Rafael Police Department, the Marin County Sheriff's office, and the Marin County Superior Court bent over backwards to do absolutely nothing about this case of attempted murder... 

I thought again about Erica Lynn O'Connor, Nathan Allan Dorris, three missing tiny teddy bears, a butterfly diamond necklace, risks, revenge and LIES, LIES, LIES...  I asked Erica to marry me and gave her three tiny teddy bears and three small satin roses.  I usually asked Erica to take off Nathan's ring when we were together... Eventually, she got around to destroying my life as well as Nathan's... One day I asked Erica to have children with me, and she kissed me harder than she had ever kissed me before, and we went out to dinner together for Puerto Rican food at SOL FOOD in San Rafael...I remember Erica driving, squeezing my left knee, and I remember Erica telling me how much she trusted me... The day after I asked Erica to have children with me, she came over to my apartment and apparently broke off our relationship.  Nathan Allan Dorris came to my apartment and returned the white gold necklace, the butterfly with diamond encrusted wings, but the teddy bears and roses I gave Erica the first time I asked her to marry me were missing... Erica apparently remains focused on destroying my life, taking revenge on me for the fact that I insisted that Nathan deserved to know about our relationship... Am I losing my mind?  Good question!

Nathan Allan Dorris left a note at my apartment door, "I am returning everything you ever gave her..."

Where are the teddy bears and roses?  Why did Erica keep them?  Why did Erica also keep the collage that I gave her simultaneously along with the white gold necklace and white gold diamond-encrusted butterfly pendant, all symbols representing my love for Erica and my obvious and clearly stated desire to court her for marriage?

This of course leads me to think about the ever glorious wonder that is Amy Pfaffman, and wonder why she kept the blue glass bowl I gave her...   

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Should I comment on San Francisco's new (June 2009) massage law?  Is it relevant?  Does anyone care?  Should I comment on the various media's recent coverage of this issue, in light of the perhaps pertinent fact that I sold the WR Hearst III family a portable massage table for $780 on January 12, 2001, and/or that I was interviewed by Massage Today about this issue so many years ago ( July, 2004, Vol. 04, Issue 07 ) ...???  Should I note that the only massage therapist to ever really even try talk to me about this issue is Sister Rosalind Gefre, and that the AMTA, NCBTMB, etc. have never returned my phone calls???  Sister Rosalind suggested that I pray to Christ...

...I double checked the date and it was Friday, August 18th 2006 that I met with Tim Barnett, the author of New Zealand's Civil Union Act 2005, establishing the institution of Civil Union for same-sex and opposite-sex couples, as well as the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, decriminalizing prostitution and brothel keeping for adults in New Zealand. We met at the Café de la Paz located at 1600 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley.  This event was coordinated by Sex Workers Outreach Project USA and Berkeley Citizens Action.  I shook Tim Barnett's hand twice, and I gave Robyn Few a hug.

I need to think about something else.  I need to figure out a way to make more money than I am now...

Tim Barnett is now Global Programme Manager of the World AIDS Campaign, and is based in South Africa.

Sometimes people ask me about my work at the 2002 Winter Olympics.  In light of global politics, I tend to think the most important thing I did at the Olympics was to give a massage to a dignitary representing Pakistan at the massage space in the Olympic Family Hotel. 

Should I comment on recent developments regarding India's IPC 377?  Should I note that the one of the major sponsors for the Naz Foundation's work is San Francisco based Levi Strauss & Co.? ... (In December 2002 Naz India filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) to challenge section 377 of the Indian Penal Code in the Delhi High Court)

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Sponsorship includes a substantial monetary and/or a significant in-kind contribution (donation of facilities, major advertising placement, personnel services) plus communicating announcements on behalf of the Congress to your related constituencies. For FRC 2009 there are two sponsor levels: Sponsors…contributing $2,500 - $7,500 and Major Sponsors…$10,000 and above.

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Who is Patric Leitner?
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I sculpted this in 1989/1990, in a class at the JC
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in Stockton, where I met Stephanie Miller, who first encouraged me to study massage...
While Erica was driving us to see
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Erica told me she wanted me to cage-fight Nathan Dorris...and she wanted me to win!

I did not make this collage...
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...but I paid $2300 for the Pacific Sun staff to design and publish it...
Big in Iran
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Can you do 160 hours of massage in four weeks?
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I really shouldn't be posting this...
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How am I supposed to forget Erica giving this to me, along with a bouquet of flowers...
...and this copy of her favorite book...
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