Doc 40

SPECIAL CRYPTIQUE -- Ronald Reagan sleeps among the goldfish.

I LOVE A COUP D’ETAT As fantasies go, nothing can compare. Tanks in the streets, delicious tension, rich folks fleeing town, the usual s...

REAGAN STILL DEAD Yeah, I know it’s an old Saturday Night Live joke from the 1970s Belushi era, but what the hell, it’s vintage. I never...

THE LONGEST DAY REVISITED I just finished committing my thoughts on the death of Ronald Reagan to a dubious posterity, and if all goes w...

FRIDAY FUNNIES Some girl forwards the following... President Bush gets out of his helicopter in front of the White House carrying a b...

THE DIVINE MARQUIS OF ABU GHARIB Mind-altering drugs, bondage, nudity, sodomy, dog leashes, humiliation, sensory deprivation, electric s...

MORE LATER, BOYS AND GIRLS This train's gonna run today, but time is a tad freeform. CRYPTIQUE -- The White Rabbit frowned at hi...

HOLIDAY WEEKEND Memorial Day in the USA, remembering the fallen, or at least paying lip service, nothing in TV except war movie marathon...

THIS MAY EXPLAIN EVERYTHING The following list was forwarded by Bassmaster Doug. It was created by combining Ravens Advanced Progressive...

IN HIDING Days occur when I feel like I should be in hiding. The surrealism that streams from the inescapable screens seems to suck all ...

I THOUGH I WAS FINISHED WITH ALL THIS I started collecting the poetry composed to beat spam blockers, and folks like munz and HCB (who i...

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...