Doc 40

THE HARDEST WORKING MAN IN POLITICS Last night, Howard Stern second banana, Artie Lange, supplied us with the following fascinating sta...

PERC-A-POP Yesterday a wall o’climate fell on Southern California like the Wrath of the Molten Brain-Eater, as the temperature hit 102F ...

LOST IN TRANSMISSION Ducking the war and all the rest of the dementia and turning to Pay for View for a chance to become prone in front ...

WEEKEND FEVER DREAMS As what seems like another too-early heatwave hits LA, the sense inhabiting a very nasty, but highly realistic scie...

LAWRENCE OF BLOODY ARABIA The US in Iraq looms large in my fevered dreams, like some chickenshit Roman Empire without the courage of its...

LONG DAYS JOURNEY I was going to get down with Iraq and this new evangelical bullshit that it’s Armageddon warming its jets just like in...

READING IRAQ The feeling grows, watching the news out of Iraq, that we are entering the desperate stage of disinformation where even rea...

PSYCHEDELIC UNCLE TOM The fine guitarist and author John Perry has a book out titled Electric Ladyland , which is exactly what it is abo...

ONE BULLSHIT PLANET Friday night in Hollywood, and the cars cruise past beyond the windows (yes, stuffed with eyes) and pulsing with hip...

I’M BACK The last few weeks have not been exactly halcyon days of technology. Indeed, they could well be described as Valium, Jack Danie...

NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED TOMORROW The battlestar has a new hard drive, and is up and running. But after all the configuring I have...

Postscript (which in the blog world precedes the script because time runs backwards) In this Hellmouse set-up, where Doc40 is pink on w...

Well friends, here's the story so far. Last Friday (yeah, Good Friday, that one) my computer crashed with signs of dangerous hard drive ...

THE DOCS COMPUTER HAS CRASHED. BADLY More info when I'm not on a ten-year old machine.

BAD? AS OPPOSED TO WHAT? History never looks like history when you’re are living through it. – John W. Gardner I don’t want to alarm...

ECCLES? A while ago I started to collect found email poetry of the kind that’s used to beat spam blockers, but then I got bored and gave...

I'LL LIVE Thanks for all the cards and flowers, friends and neighbours. I'll be answering the email in dribs and drabs. The old ...

FIRST THE TECHNOLOGY First the technology crashes and then the humanity. Doc40 has to take a couple of sick days. (And no, I haven't...

CAN THIS BE FATKIDGATE? Monday night, the Letterman show aired a clip of GWB making yet another nebulous speech in Florida. Among the ano...

WHAT’S REAL AND WHAT ISN’T? A couple of days ago, up on the comments board, Boarg asked the strange but obvious question. Are all the pe...

JESUS H. You may well have heard, or actually not heard, how, on last night’s Letterman show, the audio was dumped out when Janet Jackso...

WE’RE ALL DOOMED – PART II Following yesterday’s exchange, Jay Babcock comes back with the following, (although it might be a plan to re...

E-CONFLICT Yesterday I wrote... "folks like Jay Babcock of Arthur mag telling me that I’m being essentially Stalinist in my uni...

READY FOR A HISTORY LESSON? It’s short and there won’t be a test. (LEB OK?) In the NY Times , David Kahn gives a fast historical per...

This is a test.

THE DOC MOVIES SHAKILY TO WARP SPEED On a whole new provider, Doc40 enters a whole new phase this Saturday morning. The last few days ha...

WEED & GUARANA Okay, so it turns out to be one more day running on impulse power. Serious insomnia plus a weirdass dream about Ozzie...

"NEVER OFFER EXCUSES..." ...it shows weakness." Wasn't it Gen. George Patton who said that (played by George C. Scott...

SINCERLY, THIS SUCKS My battle with AOL goes on, but I'm learning to be calm. I reject anger even though this mega-corp will not all...

WRITER LOSES MIND (But We Shall Be Revenged) This is actually well past being funny. After the best part of a week on the phone to AOL, ...

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ FOR THE SECOND TIME IN A WEEK DOC 40 HAS FALLEN VICTIM TO AOL. DON'T KNOW WHEN WE'LL BE BACK UP. MAINLY BECAUS...

SATURDAY MORNING FEVER (A buncha stuff for the weekend) In fact, it’s a whole mass of bits and pieces served up pretty much as they come...

WHERE THE REAL SCIENCE FICTION IS BORN After yesterday’s rant of wolves, (or wolfs if you prefer the Doc40 creative spelling) I turn the...

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ BACK AND REPAIRED! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!! @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ CRY WOLF AND LET SLIP THE...

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ AOL would appear to have crashed Doc40's computer. We wonder what happens next. @@...

IDES OF MARCH I have a lot to say about wolves, but, the way the day has gone, it doesn’t seem as though I’ll have the thing fully writt...

WITHOUT COMMENT This came in from fidicen, and I figured that the only thing to do was to post it without comment, except that I had nev...

WHOLLY HOLY SUNDAY Shall we all get right with God, brothers and sisters? I suppose if we were truly devout we’d be spending Sunday ...