CHARLIE STAYS PUT

It came as no surprise to anyone – including probably Charlie himself – that, for the umpteenth time, Charles Manson, now 77, was turned down by the parole board and will remain in jail. We all know that Charlie is going to die in the joint and never see the free light of day. He’s still too potent a symbol in the leftover pop mythology of the 20^th century, and for the world of 1969, Charlie Manson was the incarnation of the dark and dangerous side of The Force. And yet I can’t help having a wry fondness for Ol’ Charlie. With his posse of supposed zombie-girl psychedelic killer thralls (and Tex Watson) he taught the squares that hippies weren’t all pacifist pushovers, fair game for any hate-warped redneck with a ball bat and a bad attitude. He also taught the hippies that just taking a bunch of acid didn’t make you the Holy Mahatma. Charlie played his role and hocked his soul in the process. (Or was the Process.)  

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The secret word is Rise

IN A WORD...

DOC'S PAPERBACK CLASSICS # 99

GRATUITOUS ANONYMOUS

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FRACKING CAUSES QUAKES

Yes, my friends. Those old oil barons just don’t give a tinker’s cuss.

“A US Geological Survey research team has linked oil and natural gas drilling operations to a series of recent earthquakes from Alabama to the Northern Rockies. According to the study led by USGS geophysicist William Ellsworth, the spike in earthquakes since 2001 near oil and gas extraction operations is “almost certainly man-made.” The research team cites underground injection of drilling wastewater as a possible cause. “With gasoline prices at $4 a gallon, there’s pressure to rush ahead with drilling, but the USGS report is another piece of evidence that shows we have to proceed carefully,” said Dusty Horwitt, Senior Counsel and chief natural resources analyst at Environmental Working Group. “We can’t afford multi-million-dollar water pollution cleanups or earthquakes that could pose risks to homes and health.” Click here for more.

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The secret word is Nasty

A PORN STAR’S IMAGE MUST NOT BE TARNISHED

Damn me but it’s a hard world. (From AVN)

"Many adult performers—mostly women, but even a few men—have had the unhappy experience that once they become known among porn-watching fans, their photos begin to show up in ads on websites and in giveaway tabloids supposedly offering themselves for "dating" or "escort" or "massage" services. While such ads used to be rife in the pages of the LA Weekly and LA Xpress, they've now pretty much disappeared from these local publications—though not necessarily from similar venues around the country—as porn stars have become more aware of the value of their endorsements and more concerned about managing their images."

LEMMY IN NEEDLEPOINT (Don’t you just love it?)

So we’ve had the movie, the action figure, the booze, the playing cards, the beer commercial, and now the Motormerch moves on to the needlepoint sampler.

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(Maybe this is why we have a content warning.)

DON’T SAY A WORD…

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The secret word is Silent


Jim Marshall – RIP

...BECAUSE THE HANDS HAVE EYES

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Easter? I have never liked Easter. In my English primary school where Henry VIII and the godfearing headmistress had made damn sure that church and state never separated, I annually sat through the bloody (and I use the word advisedly) Easter story – in a class that was actually called Religious Instruction – with the growing feeling that the whole event was nothing more than a massive con and deception – with a definite back alley entrance for anti-semitism. The supposedly immortal Jesus appeared more of a nebulous ghost that a seriously reincarnated human. Even Dracula in one of his later, Hammer film resuscitations, was more substantial. And then there was the hideous Roman execution. It was so damned sanitised in the Good Friday kiddie-pictures, but I already knew how barbaric the whole business was long before Mel Gibson felt the need to show us in his viciously insane movie. And then, as time went by, it really became clear what a mash-up of pagan fertility rites, spring festivals, Mithraic Mysteries, Sun worship, the ritual sacrifice of the Boy King, all the way to bunnies, and cheap chocolate eggs. The duplicitous Christians had progressively stolen every theological  concept that wasn’t nailed down (so to speak) and used it to justify their holier-than-thou monotheism. But what can you do? Cadbury or the Pope won’t allow the likes of me to drive them out of business, so, for the time being, I have to endure it and all my complaining will do is piss off the faithful – but that’s why they forced the content warning on Doc40 in the first place.

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The secret word is Chicken

MARILYN SEZ...

“He thinks you like him when he’s angry.”

THE FROZDICK FAMILY

Genghis Frozdick’s plan was simplicity itself. He wanted to destroy the world 

THAT’S RIGHT – 3!