World AIDS Day :Pass the 7-UP

By Eric Francis TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when I was a high school senior, I was sitting in my room and my mother walked in with a newspaper clipping from The New York Times about a new disease called GRID. This was, I read in our family’s newspaper of record, a disease that was impacting the gay male … Read more

Inconvenient Reasoning

      Today’s horoscope is the June 2007 monthly for Lemonade, standing in for Planet Waves Weekly number 666 by Eric Francis. Aries (March 20-April 19) You need new ideas about life, and therefore you need to look for them in new places. You may be feeling this, as well as a bit of fear … Read more

Horoscopes: The Cosmic Voice of Reason

I believe in the future, I may live in my car My radio tuned to the voice of a star — Paul Simon SINCE IT’S POSSIBLE for horoscope columns to be effective without astrology itself working, we can look a little deeper into what makes this so. I suggest we don’t need to look too … Read more

Taking a Moment

      Monthly Inner Space for June 2007, standing in for weekly horoscope #665 – By ERIC FRANCIS Aries (March 20-April 19) Your chart is giving the impression you’re living at work these days. If so, I suggest you bring in a real toaster oven rather than a microwave. In fact, bring in home-cooked meals … Read more

How to be Your Own Lover

by Eric Francis  May is International Masturbation Month, as decreed nearly a decade ago by the Good Vibrations people in San Francisco and Berkeley. This is a reprint of an article Eric wrote in 2000, with additional resources below. This article originally appeared in Common Ground magazine in San Francisco in May 2000. We’re republishing it today … Read more