IMPORTANT NOTE (TO ME AT LEAST)

British Summertime starts on Sunday, which makes all the information below about the radio show, basically be one hour earlier outside the UK (Including me dragging myself out of bed.)   

IT’S PROMOTIN’ TIME

IT’S PROMOTION TIME

This coming Sunday at noon GMT, instead of blogging Sunday Breakfast on Doc40, I’ll be live on the radio at Resonance at 104.4 FM for an entire hour beaming in from a secret location. (And if all goes according to plan I will be previewing The Deviants dangerous new single “The Fury Of The Mob.”) For those of you in other parts of the UK – or in other parts of the world --the best way to listen to the show is by going to www.resonancefm.com . On the home page is a listening button - which is downloadable too. Within ten minutes of the show finishing, there will be a soundcloud available.

“The programme is called 'Traffic Island Discs' and will be presented by Dean Stalham.

Dean's Resonance slot 'Art Saves Lives' became a regular, legendary Sunday programme drawing on a diversity of guests, live music plus elements of occasional controlled chaos .It's evolving of course and 'Traffic Island Discs' is part of that. The four programmes are a pilot for a further series to be broadcast later on and as already mentioned based on the BBC programme 'Desert Island Discs' except that we have limited the selection to 6 and of course it's 'live'. Tune into 'Art Saves Lives'"

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The secret worth is Radiogram

THIS IS TRULY SURREAL

Click here to discover the just how surreal. Marc Campbell of Dangerous Minds is responsible..

BOY HOWDY!

PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING

OKAY, WE’LL POST IT

BUT THOSE COMMIES WILL STOP AT NOTHING

GRATUITOUS INK

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

Wake, wake, smell, smell, coffee, coffee, bacon, bacon, crackle, crackle, eggs, eggs, fried slice, fried slice, grapefruit, grapefruit, vodka, vodka, toast, toast, marmalade, marmalade, pills, pills, lingerie, lingerie, fantasy, fantasy, plausible, implausible. Good morning.

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The secret word Fry

MARILYN SEZ…

“Photoshop has very kindly put me in a motel room with Elvis Presley.” 

BATMAN AND ROBIN FAIL AS DRAG QUEENS

DISTURBING?

Cloning hybrid owls and pussy cats is asking for trouble.

GRATUITOUS RED

SILENT, BLOODLESS, THEY COME AT US WITH NUMBERS

I read the news, I watch the TV, I join the dots. I feel ill. I hope I’m wrong but Cyprus and Detroit only seem to confirm that we are in the middle of a global coup d’etat by the world’s bankers. This from Glenn Ford

“From Nicosia, Cyprus, to Detroit, Michigan, the global financial octopus is squeezing the life out of society, stripping away public and individual assets in a vain attempt to fend off its own, inevitable collapse. The bankers “troika” that effectively rules Europe prepares to reach into the individual accounts of ordinary depositors on the island nation of Cyprus to fund the bailout of their local banking brethren. Across the Atlantic, a corporate henchman makes arrangements to seize the assets and abolish the political rights of a Black metropolis. The local colorations may vary, but the crisis is the same: massed capital is devouring its social and natural environment. Either we liquidate the banksters, or Wall Street will liquidate us. Detroit and the people of Cyprus share the same enemy, a class that is beyond the reach of simple civil rights suits. The Lords of Capital on Wall Street and the City of London and the Federal Reserve in Washington and in the “troika” at Brussels confront their own existential crisis, which compels them to liquidate the public sector so that it can eventually be transferred to their own balance sheets. There are many ways to accomplish this, through privatization of existing public institutions, or by simply blowing a hole in public services and allowing privateers to fill the void, subsidized by public funds. However, nothing can save the banksters from inevitable, and increasingly imminent, collapse. Ever-increasing profit margins must be achieved, somehow, or the system implodes. Hundreds of trillions of notional dollars in derivatives must be serviced and fed by a class that makes nothing and can only survive by chicanery and coercion by governments under their control.In Cyprus, they are prepared to brazenly snatch euros directly from working and retired people’s accounts to fund a bank bailout, without even bothering to construct a convoluted pathway from the victims’ accounts to their own. They have reached the point of outright confiscation, and will not stop until they have stripped society of the potential to save itself from the ruins. We have no choice but to confiscate them – to destroy them utterly as a class.” (Click here for the rest)

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The secret word is Stealth

HEY TONY…

How close are current banking practices to RICO predicates for a criminal conspiracy? 

LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDOURED THING

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DOMINO

GATUITOUS GYLLENHAAL,

IN THE FUTURE THE CIA WILL KNOW EVERYTHING

Did you think no one would notice what you were doing on Facebook?

“Speaking at a technology conference in New York City Wednesday night, CIA chief technology officer Ira Hunt stated that the CIA "fundamentally [tries] to collect everything and hang on to it forever," referring to massive troves of personal data that have become increasingly accessible through online and wireless technology. Text messages, social media, online videos, and 'cloud' data storage technologies have proliferated in recent years and the CIA is hungry for more development in technology that could potentially store and organize all such information in unprecedented databases, referred to as 'Big Data'. "The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time," Hunt said. "Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever." Hunt did not reveal how and through what vehicles the CIA would gain access to every piece of cyber information that citizens put out there, but he did express the agency's unrelenting desire for technology and intelligence capabilities—such as advanced storage facilities—that would allow them to do so. "It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to compute on all human generated information," Hunt said. "You're already a walking sensor platform," he added. "You are aware of the fact that somebody can know where you are at all times, because you carry a mobile device, even if that mobile device is turned off," he said. "You know this, I hope? Yes? Well, you should." Hunts statements arrive shortly after reports surfaced earlier this week that Amazon has signed a 10-year contract with the CIA worth $600 million to develop a vast cloud storage infrastructure for the agency.”

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The secret word is Sideways

DON’T ASK ME, MY HANDS ARE TIED

THE FROZDICK FAMILY

Bonnie-Jo Frozdick did not want to be photographed on the back of Elvis’ motorcycle.

NOW THE BASTARDS EVEN INSULT OUR INTELLIGENCE

WE LEAVE FUNCTION OF THIS DEVICE TO YOUR IMAGINATION

GRATUITOUS CRAWL

EGO UNCHAINED

A few weeks ago my pal and poet the excellent Ben Graham conducted a marathon interview round here at Alexandra Villas and finally it’s posted. Just click here and it's your’s for the reading.

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The secret word is Promotion 

LOVE IS A MANY SPENDOURED THING

WE WARNED YOU—NOW THE FELINES HAVE AIR POWER

(Lifted from Ken Shimamoto)

GRATUITOUS CORSET

SUNDAY BREAKFAST

When our long time comrade and running buddy HCB introduced me to THE CREATURE, his purpose was unclear. I didn’t know what was expected of me. What should I do with IT on this weary St. Patrick’s Sunday morn after I had spent long hours in a recording studio with the rest of the Deviants cutting a brilliant new single? Should I deep fry IT in batter, should I feed IT to Finn the cat, or lead IT gently by tentacle to a taxi and thence to a cheap hot-sheet motel and engage in a star slippery-sucker naked-lunch congress (perhaps with live video.) What would Jim Morrison have done? I asked HCB his opinion but HBB was of absolutely no help. He merely questioned the quality of the hotel. I pointed out that the Savoy didn’t take guests with tentacles and I hung up.

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The secret word is Fhtagn 

MARILYN SEZ…

“I’m leaving Farren with his squiddly paramour and going for a drive.”

RESULTS CAN BE UNEXPECTED!

ESPECIALLY WHEN OTHERS JOINED THE PARTY

AND GENRES BECAME SO IMPLAUSIBLY MIXED…

…THAT SOME SOUGHT REFUGE IN THE LAUNDROMAT

HOW FAR DO YOU TRUST YOUR CAT ?

Here at the Doc40 funhouse we have talked much over the years about the coming Catapocalypse when cats will become the ruling species on the planet. Recent evidence, however, (submitted by our pal SAS) would seem to indicate that the Central Intelligence Agency may have been in on the act for half a century. The real question is was the CIA exploiting the cats, or were the cats playing the spooks.

“In the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited an unusual field agent: a cat. In an hour-long procedure, a veterinary surgeon transformed the furry feline into an elite spy, implanting a microphone in her ear canal and a small radio transmitter at the base of her skull, and weaving a thin wire antenna into her long gray-and-white fur. This was Operation Acoustic Kitty, a top-secret plan to turn a cat into a living, walking surveillance machine. The leaders of the project hoped that by training the feline to go sit near foreign officials, they could eavesdrop on private conversations.

The problem was that cats are not especially trainable—they don’t have the same deep-seated desire to please a human master that dogs do—and the agency’s robo-cat didn’t seem terribly interested in national security. For its first official test, CIA staffers drove

Acoustic Kitty to the park and tasked it with capturing the conversation of two men sitting on a bench. Instead, the cat wandered into the street, where it was promptly squashed by a taxi. The program was abandoned; as a heavily redacted CIA memo from the time delicately phrased it, “Our final examination of trained cats . . . convinced us that the program would not lend itself in a practical sense to our highly specialized needs.” (Those specialized needs, one assumes, include a decidedly unflattened feline.)

Operation Acoustic Kitty, misadventure though it was, was a visionary idea just fifty years before its time. Today, once again, the U.S. government is looking to animal- machine hybrids to safeguard the country and its citizens. In 2006, for example, DARPA zeroed in on insects, asking the nation’s scientists to submit “innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs.” (Click here for the whole story)

The secret word is Purr

BUT WHO KNOWS THE FELINES’ TRUE AGENDA?

I very much doubt that even the CIA can subvert – or for that mater avert – the Catapocalypse. One somewhat unnerving new symptom is that my adorable companion Finn – aside from being obsessed with an X-Files green laser pointer – has taken to walking on computer keyboard and creating strange alien documents.

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CYCLIST WITH MIND CONTROL CAT

THE FROZDICK FAMILY

Orlando, the Frozdick’s family cat, collects data for the conspiracy.

“SMOKE IF YOU GOT ‘EM. WE AIN’T GOING NOWHERE

GRATUITOUS POLYVINYL CHLORIDE

"Isn't that Maureen Dowd?"

“HUMANS ARE SO EASILY DISTRACTED”

ELVIS AND THE TRANSISTOR – A DANGEROUS DUO

I have always been fascinated by the impact of technology on culture from Gutenberg to Twitter – and don’t forget the Gatling gun – innovation can have far-reaching and unexpected results. Until reading the following in David Halberstam’s book The Fifties, I hadn’t considered how the transistor radio had freed teenagers from parental control of the music to which they listened.

“The rock and roll revolution rode in on the rails of technology. Disapproving parents in the 1950s might have been in control of the family record player, but they couldn't control a brand new marvel of technology, the portable transistor radio, which enterprising manufacturers would sell to the newly prosperous postwar teens for $1 down and $1 a month. Portable record players were not far behind. In fact, the average teen had almost as much disposable income as entire families had had only fifteen years earlier: 

"[Elvis] Presley's [career] timing was nearly perfect. The [rock and roll] crossover, led by Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard, was in full force. Parents might disapprove of the beat and of their children listening to what they knew was black music. But their disapproval only added to Presley's popularity and made him more of a hero among the young. Local ministers might get up in their churches (almost always well covered by local newspapers) and attack demon rock as jungle music and threaten to lead a crusade to have this Presley boy arrested if he dared set foot in their community (generally, there was no problem, their towns were too small for him to play). It did not matter: Elvis Presley and rock music were happening. In this new subculture of rock and roll the important figures of authority were no longer mayors and selectmen or parents; they were disc jockeys, who reaffirmed the right to youthful independence and guided teenagers to their new rock heroes. The young formed their own community. For the first time in American life they were becoming a separate, defined part of the culture: As they had money, they were a market, and as they were a market they were listened to and catered to. Elvis was the first beneficiary. In effect, he was entering millions of American homes on the sly ..."  

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The secret word is Ear 

AND TALKING ABOUT RADIO…

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IT JUST GETS WORSE

I will soon reach the point where I will have to stop reading environment predictions or lose my mind as the profit motive and the energy barons eat the fucking planet.  

"Under all plausible greenhouse gas emission scenarios," the world is on track to surpass temperatures not seen since the dawn of civilization, according to new research.

Confirming "unprecedented" global warming, the new study published in Friday's issue of the journal Science shows that the earth's temperatures catapulted in just the last century at a rate that had previously taken 4,000 years.

"In 100 years, we've gone from the cold end of the spectrum to the warm end of the spectrum," said climatologist Shaun Marcott, lead author of the study. "We've never seen something this rapid. Even in the ice age the global temperature never changed this quickly." Marcott said that current "global temperatures are warmer than about 75 percent of anything we've seen over the last 11,000 years or so." By 2100, he said, global temperatures will be "well above anything we've ever seen in the last 11,000 years."

"The climate changes to come are going to be larger than anything that human civilization and agriculture has seen in its entire existence," NPR quotes Gavin Schmidt, a climate researcher at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, as saying. "And that is quite a sobering thought."

BUT ALL THINGS HAVE A SOLUTION

“FEELEST THOU PROPITIOUS, PUNK?”

NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR…

GRATUITOUS BARDOT

I COULDN’T HAVE PUT IT BETTER MYSELF

The secret word is Slime

Hugo Chavez – RIP (See Facebook for the debate)