Doc 40

WHEN DOES THE SHIT STOP? Now Ahmad Chalabi is screwed, and might take Rummy down with him. How long, I keep asking myself, can this admi...

WATCH OUT FOR JIM BATH Sometime around soon you’ll be getting a tad tired of the excuse that there ain’t much of a blog because I’ve had...

GLIMPSE THE PROCESS Okay, so here’s the truth. I don’t have a single thought in my mind except those that are essential to survival. (Th...

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MONDAY, MONDAY... And really not a great deal to say since I'm working on the long overdue episode of Slide On The Run , and still t...

WUSSUP WI’ FUCKING KERRY? ( Ask a science fiction writer .) ‘Tis the weekend and the Doc is tired, okay? But I’ll pose y’all a questi...

LANDMARK The Funtopia site (to the right) just logged its 20,000th hit. Which makes me irrationally happy. It almost happened once befor...

THEY’RE BACK! I believe I’ve already mentioned my concern at how the aliens, grey or otherwise, seem to have been totally out of the pic...

SUBSERVIENT CHICKEN IN DECLINE A couple of weeks ago, I posted a note on the Subservient Chicken, a disturbingly weird-ass promo from Bu...

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO AND HIS EXPERIMENT Seems like Doc40 stays about 48 hours ahead of the news media. Two days after Jett had reminded us al...

THAT WAS THE WEEK (WASN’T IT?) I catch myself in repetition, describing over and over again how my mind whirls at current events as they...

THE OLD ONES ARE THE BEST As in the old CND recruiting poster parody... JOIN THE ARMY VISIT EXOTIC LANDS MEET INTERESTING PEOPLE A...

I SEE YOUR HAIR IS BURNING While well aware that no one outside the LA basin gives a rat’s ass that the city is going through it’s secon...

FROM THE EMAIL In LA, the disturbing climate cycle is now in a repeat phase and the temps promise to climb into the Fahrenheit hundreds ...

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...