Good Vibrations Magazine

Beside the reservoir that is next to the ocean in Newport Rhode Island there is a house. There is nothing exceptional about this house. But every Christmas season it becomes a destination for parents and their children. Standing on the beach you can see its lights burning bright.

Thanksgiving has a great deal in common with crying in bed.
I am actually thinking of the origins of our Thanksgiving tale, those silly Pilgrims, that barren New England soil, frigid winter, and the kind Wampanoags who came to share, much to their later chagrin.
To be more specific than crying in bed I am thinking of [...]

It finally happened. It took a two-year courtship and multiple proposals but last week Barack Obama asked us to marry him and we, the people said yes. Congratulations, we’re engaged.
Yet the joy for many of us is tempered by the passing of Proposition 8. The country has come so far in electing an African-American president [...]

I have had the good fortune to attend a number of gay weddings this season. There have been many. With proposition 8 proposing to end gay proposals people have been promiscuously popping the question.

I am not saying this as some campaign slogan or religious cry, “Jesus loves you!” No, I am quite in earnest. Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, Vice-Presidential candidate, loves me.
Remember all that winking she did during the debate? That was for me.
Have you seen those youtube videos of her at her Church in a [...]

Riding our bikes along one of the dusty streets of Black Rock City Dominic and Reynaldo wanted to stop by the camp Comfort and Joy. There were two lovely Moroccan tents set up and a list of activities.
“Male Erotic Massage” was to start in one hour in the big tent, lots of rubbing in the [...]

The night began when my brother took acid. Well, he and our good friend. Let’s call him Dominic. This was at Burning Man.
Soon Dominic needed a port-a-potty. Acid can do that to you.

I had an epiphany about Bachelor Parties last weekend. It was this; Bachelor Parties are for Bachelors.

Redundant, say you.
No, say I.

Bachelor Parties aren’t really for bachelors, they’re for almost married guys.

Its not often that I am vindicated by a scientific study coming out of a major university. It is even less often that I am vindicated in a matter of love by a scientific study coming out of a major university…

I have an idea for a website. The idea is so simple, so clean, I am certain the site must already exist, though I haven’t been able to find it.
Of course Google has made me exceptionally lazy. If two or three keywords don’t give me my answer by halfway down the second page forget about [...]

It happens, usually from behind. Well, always from behind, though I suppose other positions could lend themselves to it. Now, to be clear, there are a couple of things I am not talking about.
There’s a girl I know who had a friend back in the day named Barbara who they all called Baba Wrong Hole. [...]

With the Sex and the City movie opening this week I got to thinking about gay men and the women they love. I was thinking how gay men have a different relationship to women than I do. Namely, we differ on how we view pussy.
For straight men pussy is the hidden kingdom, the Golden Palace [...]

I try to be conscious of the environment.
I ride my bike.
I poop straight into my neighbor’s compost bin.
I’ve even taken up breathing directly onto trees. Apparently this makes oxygen production more efficient. (Just kidding. Do not actually try this as the trees may become angry with you.)
Yes, it’s hard being green. Often what is good [...]

I was standing on the corner when these two girls came my way in skirts too small to hide anything. Then along came a breeze and up went those skirts, and down went their hands, but not before a sight of thigh and a glimpse of Venus.
They giggled. I smiled.
Spring had arrived.
Luscious Spring. Raucous Spring. [...]

My friend Penny is a student of many things, poi, ropes, Burning Man camp lead, (“never again!”), and now, pole dancing. She had her almost-30 birthday party last weekend. Guess where we went?
We started at the Lusty Lady. Her booths no longer take quarters, just dollar bills now, leaving me with an entire roll of [...]

An extraordinarily strange thing happened in Washington D.C. on February 25. Lynne Cheney, wife of our Vice-President Dick, awoke with a soft, warm feeling between her legs. She was surprised, but very happy. She pressed her thighs together and reached down to see what was going on inside her bajingo.
Lo and behold if she didn’t [...]

In many ways presidential candidates are vying to be America’s next lover. It’s no coincidence that they are often described as “courting” voters. They smile at us, compliment us, wink, smear their rivals for our affection. Their campaigns are filled with the equivalent of high school best friends who sidle up to the American electorate [...]

With the close of the New Hampshire primary the presidential election has entered a short lull. Soon enough the candidates will be back on every television screen but for now we have a moment to reflect. The most obvious reflection is to imagine what their campaign web sites would look like if the candidates were [...]

It’s Christmas time. The time of year when every Jew, no matter how assimilated, feels JEWISH.
Oh look, decorations… not for you. Oh listen, music… not for you. And everyone wishing you merry for a day. Merry? We Jews really aren’t a merry people, too many pogroms.
But not long ago I saw a Church under construction [...]

Why is it we know so little about the sex lives of our great fictional characters? Artists work hard to give us insight into the lives of others and yet their character’s sexual proclivities are left a mystery. When we do get a glimpse of a sex life it is usually in erotica and then [...]

How much of my life have I spent trying to get laid? It seems we all spend most of our time striving for that. Some tell me that this is simply my impression because I am a Scorpio. They say the last word as if calling me a bad name, a little hiss at the [...]

Honesty is a much-vaunted ideal here in the Bay Area. We have all kinds of circles designed to force us to be honest; men’s circles, women’s circles, square circles. That last one is impossible but around here there’s no such thing as the impossible, there’s just you not being in touch with your spirit of [...]

Have you ever seen two naked straight men try to hug? I have.
It happened a few weeks ago at a camp out. Summer is camp out season here in the Bay Area, a time when alternative communities pack their cars and head north to the woods. Though leaving the big city, contemplating the serenity [...]

My friend was upset, haggard looking, fingers fidgeting with the brim of the striped straw hat he’d taken to wearing under the misapprehension that it was cool.
“What is it?” I asked.
He sighed, stared at his iced tea in the sun. “It’s Tear Down The Walls.”
That was the name of his girlfriend. Actually, Tear Down [...]

Virgins, 72 of them, black eyed. That’s the promise. Martyr yourself for Islam and they await you in heaven.
But come on, what kind of a promise is that? Virgins, 72 no less, all clenched fists and closed eyes? No, no, no. If I’m going to invest in the system, if I’m going to hand over [...]