Фотоколлекция в телефоне Чарли Шина

So That Happened: My Unexpected Life in Hollywood (2016)
Jon Cryer

https://www.amazon.com/So-That-Happened-Jon-Cryer/dp/0451472365
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22571499-so-that-happened

Chapter 25: Episodes of Two and a Half Men:

"(...)When Charlie’s marriage to Denise ended during the second season—which I was truly saddened by, for obvious reasons—both Charlie and I became single at the same time. Which was . . . interesting.

Our parking spaces were right next to each other, and they were in front of the soundstage alleyway that housed our side-by-side trailers, so in the morning I’d often see him sitting outside his trailer smoking as I walked toward mine. During this time we’d have a conversation, and he’d mention that things had been going well for him romantically. “Romantically” is my choice of words, not his.

Then, as if to prove this, he’d show me a picture he’d taken of somebody’s vagina. It was always a perfectly nice-looking vagina, but I would invariably think, Why just this, and not the rest of the person?

And what do you say in that moment? “Thank you for that vagina picture”? “How long have you been seeing . . . it”? “Please tell me she was awake”?

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We talked about prostitutes. He’d said publicly that you don’t pay prostitutes to come to your house; you pay them to leave. He’d thought this through, obviously.

I was in a bad state right after my divorce, and I certainly didn’t feel dateable. I was an emotional basket case. What good was I to any woman I might have an interest in? I decided I might as well pay someone for company and certain intimate pleasures so that I could at least get my equilibrium back with the opposite sex. Charlie suggested a few online purveyors he occasionally used, as this was when prostitution was gaining a foothold on the Internet. He and I had different tastes, so I didn’t go with his exact recommendations, but my forays into prostitution were about as awkward as you might imagine.

I went with an out-call for my first try, which means they come over to your house, and as I waited for her that evening, I couldn’t help but think of my hooker-loving Upper West Side neighbor, Mr. Green, and his violent encounter with a tagalong boyfriend. My chosen vendor was alone, though, and she drove a white BMW to boot (nice!), plus sported a sexy Finnish accent. It was really a very friendly experience, maybe because the act of having sex is quite the conversational icebreaker. Afterward I inquired about seeing her again.

The next time I went to her place, which probably wasn’t really her place, but there you go. It was pretty depressing, but that didn’t matter, because we sat down, tried to make small talk, and awkwardly stumbled into a conversation about recent fluctuations in the stock market. Somehow I ended up spending twenty-five minutes of my hour helping her with financial planning. That was fine, really. I learned that the sex part of these transactions is fairly perfunctory, and that you may have a perfectly nice time chatting, but you always feel weird afterward, because you’ve spent all this money for the part that never lasts as long as you want it to. What I really needed to do was gear myself up to date like a normal person.

“You have to understand,” she told me at one point, “I end up doing a lot more talking. A lot. That seems to be what a lot of guys want, almost as much as the other stuff.”

I was also apparently one of the very few nonmarried customers she’d had. Yikes.

I suppose if Charlie’s example of his evening’s entertainment was best exemplified by a snapshot of lady parts, mine would be a picture of me hunched over a table of papers and telling a hot chick, “The real estate boom is building up, so I’m sounding a note of caution. You might want to diversify.”"

Стенли Криппнер и "Эффект Кирлиана" в СССР

Тайная жизнь растений /The Secret Life of Plants (1973)
 Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird / Питер Томпкинс, Кристофер Берд

Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird / Питер Томпкинс, Кристофер Берд - Тайная жизнь растений / The Secret Life of Plants [1973, FB2/PDF/DjVu, ENG/RUS] :: RuTracker.org

Эффект Кирлиана — Википедия




(стр 238) "Еще один американский парапсихолог д-р Стенли Крип-пнер (Stanley Krippner), директор необычной лаборатории сновидений клиники Маймонидес в Нью-Йорке (знаменитой своими опытами по управлению снами при помощи рисунков, направляемых на спящего человека) отправился летом 1971 г. в Россию. В Москве Криппнер стал первым американцем, приглашенным выступить с докладом по парапсихологии в Институте психологии при Академии педагогических наук. На его лекцию собралось около двухсот психиатров, физиков, инженеров, космических ученых и готовящихся к полетам космонавтов.
Криппнер узнал о нейрофизиологе Геннадии Сергееве, работавшем в Ухтомском военном институте в Ленинграде, который сделал кирлианский снимок Нины Кулагиной. Эта женщина-экстрасенс могла двигать по поверхности стола скрепки, спички, сигареты, и другие предметы, проводя над ними рукой, но не касаясь их.
На снимках Сергеева явственно видно, что во время этих психокинетических подвигов «биоплазменное тело» вокруг Нины Кулагиной расширяется и начинает ритмично пульсировать, а ее глаза испускают светящиеся лучи.
Осенью 1971 г. Вильям Тиллер (William A. Tiller), заведующий кафедрой физики материалов Стенфордского университета в Пало Альто, штат Калифорния, специалист по кристаллам с мировым именем, стал первым американским физиком, приглашенным Эдуардом Наумовым, заведующим лабораторией технической парапсихологии в Москве, познакомиться с советскими достижениями в области кирли-анской фотографии.
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Большинство западных ученых считают все идеи о существовании ауры просто блефом. Между тем, кирлианская фотография, изобретенная еще в конце 1930-х годов, похоже, дает наглядные доказательства существования ауры, что вызвало в США огромный интерес к продолжению исследований в этой области. Заручившись поддержкой нескольких спонсоров, Стенли Криппнер организовал весной 1972 г. первую на Западе конференцию по кирлианской фотографии и ауре человека, которая прошла в Инженерно-промышленном центре в Манхеттене. Конференц-зал был битком набит врачами, психиатрами, психоаналитиками, психологами, парапсихологами, биологами, инженерами и фотографами всех мастей. Мосс и Джонсон продемонстрировали шокирующие снимки листа до и после прокалывания. На кирлианском снимке поврежденного листа была отчетливо видна огромная кроваво-красная лужа энергии на том самом месте, где до прокалывания сияло ярко-лазурное излучение с розоватым оттенком."

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(page 206) "Still another U.S. parapsychological researcher, Dr, Stanley Krippner, director of the extraordinary Dream Laboratory at the Maimonides Medical Center in New York-where pictures have been successfully directed at sleepers in order to produce in their minds desired dreamstrekked to Russia in the summer of 1971. While in Moscow, Krippner was the first American invited to give an address on parapsychology to the Institute of Psychology in the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.( Read more... )