Doc 40

I’M BACK I have returned from Tokyo more or less intact and am attempting to sleep for a week and place all circumstances beyond my cont...

DOC 40 WILL BE OFF THE AIR UNTIL NOVEMBER 29th. GONE EAST. Meanwhile here's a free speech alarm from Wired ... http://www.wired.com...

I've been running round like crazy preparing for my trip to Japan. So no deep insights to post but here's message from Allen Ginsber...

This Yahoo News clip comes from some girl... NEW YORK Sen. Zell Miller, who famously challenged MSNBC host Chris Matthews to a duel during ...

DEATH IN THE FAMILY Doc40 takes personal time and turns over the helm to a highly pissed off Mr.MR. The secret word is Orphan CRYP...

ODD The worker’s flag was deepest red It shrouded oft our martyred dead But now it’s blue And the blood will show through SURPRISE, ...

NIGHT AND FOG I guess the reason this election has left me so disabled (aside from the fact that I firmly believe that it’s the start of a ...

WE TRIED TO ESCAPE OUR SENTENCE WAS DOUBLED Our President held a predictably gloating press conference today. (Anyone remember when he las...

The spectacle of the working poor voting tax cuts for millionaires makes me weep for this twilight zone of a country.

DEMOCRACY? YOU CAN’T HANDLE DEMOCRACY I see a nation rendered infantile, and vicious by the manipulation of second hand fear and demente...

I sense there's a lot of us seeking comfort right now, with little to offer except the fact that are still a lot of us, and what will ge...

All I can think of right now, as I wander from room to room, with rage vying with depression and rejecting the impulse to flee or at least g...

WHAT FOOLS HAVE WROUGHT THIS DAY... As I was attempting to rationalize some perverse and unhealthy method by which to find the last twel...

LUCK BE A LADY TONIGHT (Don’t blow on the other guy’s dice.) And remember the choices... 1 – GEORGE W. BUSH 2 – JOHN KERRY 3 – CIVIL...

TOMORROW'S THE DAY OF THE DEAD THE SANTA ANNA BLOWS DOWN FROM THE HILLS THE WAYWARD WIND IS A RESTLESS WIND (but they also call the w...

CHAOS One of my favorite things. Infinitely preferable to raindrops on roses. Seems like everything’s been done that can be done and ...

FOR THE HALLOWEEN PARADE " I know the forces of spontaneous, emergent Life are stronger than the forces of evil, repression and death,...

THE LAST FOUR YEARS HAVE MADE THIS COUNTRY DANGEROUSLY ANGRY AND IT ISN’T GOING TO DISSIPATE NEXT WEEK. (Leapin' lizards, Sandy, I’ve ...

WOULDN’T IT BE NICE IF, NEXT WEDNESDAY, I COULD GARBAGE ALL THE NOTES AND LINKS AND REFERENCES I HAVE AMASSED TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH BE...

FUN In this week’s LA CityBeat , I pay tribute to Godzilla on his 50th birthday. (Although the "his" may be in some doubt.) In re...

TO THE RAT BRAIN! HCBeck, after being off the air for a while writes – " It's all we need--rat brain cells learning to fly airp...

A POX ON THESE FAUX POP-SLUTS Watching the clips of Ashley Simpson fucking up on SNL and, I hope, destroying her worthless career in the pro...

THE OAF I find it truly offensive to hear the unspeakable Bush (who never bore a burden or paid a price in his wretched simian life) daring...

The archives, the links, the famous message board all seem to have sunk to the bottom. If you need them, you now have to scroll to the botto...

SODOMY ANYONE? From the South Dakota Argus Leader " A window sticker scarcely larger than a standard photo print has the nation's...

TV, AYE I had resolved to doze in front of the TV and avoid watching cable news all day at all cost, but TV and homie don’t play that, beca...

COOL Yesterday’s cover story I wrote for the local rag got itself reprinted (is that the word?) on Smirking Chimp. Damn am I proud. Especia...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF RAT FUCKING Here’s a link to the thing I’ve been primarily working on and making myself nuts with for the last ten or s...

PHEW... Well, I finished my election opus (all being well, it will be out on Thursday and links will be provided) and it almost seems like ...

WHO ARE THESE FUCKING PEOPLE? Isn't it grand to watch bullyboy media blowhards go down. First Rush Limbaugh turns out to be a wretch...

Still self-importantly writing myself into the ground, but these possibly crucial snippets floated past... The Osama bin Laden, Chinese,...

I’m still working on the election opus, but let me leave you with a riff on Farscape from LA CityBeat... http://lacitybeat.com/article.p...

Oh yeah, the secret word is Headache

Right now I'm working on what will probably be my last big utterance before the election on the black arts of politics, so blogs maybe c...

DEVIANT DESIRES FOR $2000, PLEASE ALEX It occurred to me while watching Jeopardy that Ken Jennings must be hell on wheels at crossword puz...

I was watching the DVD of Fahrenheit 911, and, at the end, it occurred to me how The Who’s "Won’t Get Fooled Again" would have fit...

Sometimes I think my intellect is failing, but then I turn on the television.

No one in the media has so far commented, or even seems to have noticed, but, at one point in the last Presidential debate, Bush attempted t...

Americans seem somewhat upset that the English have screwed up their flu vacine. Did I understand correctly that the problem was at a factor...

In the review below, I especially love the phrase "zany yet brutal".

When the workers aren’t paid enough also to be consumers, capitalism screws the pooch and the game is over. EGO EGO EGO While googling ...

Last night during the VP Smackdown, Darth Cheney defended Haliburton by telling viewers to go to factcheck.com to read all about his former ...

RODNEY DANGERFIELD RIP (Respect)

NOTES ON HOMELAND SECURITY Yesterday another hospital emergency room closed in Los Angeles. Since the late eighties, Southern California h...

MONDAY AFTERNOON Having slept, now I wander in a haze muttering to myself that I have so much to do, I have no idea where to start, and sho...

I thought I should make a brief post so you would not all think I had wandered off again. I have spent some of the last few days with the Fe...

DEE BATE I watched the Bush/Kerry debate -- twice in fact, once as it happened, and again when I got back from Felix’s wine and poetry f...

THE DRAFT I have a piece this week in LA CityBeat on the rumors that George Bush is planning to reinstitute the draft. (But an edit kille...

Verily I say unto you, let's all start using the word verily.

WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS (oh, say it isn’t so) My informants inform me that, in addition to the discovery of a further twelve hours of sex t...

NUTSHELL ON GWB To be both megalomaniac and feeble minded is infinitely possible.

TWO QUOTES FROM TED KENNEDY " The President's handling of the war has been a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideol...

WHILE FLORIDA TURNS BIBLICAL AND DESPITE WHAT JEB BUSH MIGHT SAY... (From a British diplomatic website) Climate change is a far greater th...

A THOUGHT OCCURRED TO ME Remember when Oprah gave away all those free cars to her audience, and then they discovered they all had to pay th...

THE MORE IT CHANGES, THE MORE IT STAYS THE SAME What’s the French for the above and did Marcel Proust say it? Damned if I know. Thirty nine...

MONDAY, MONDAY Almost October, and in the teeth of another week, when Felix Dennis reads his poetry in LA, on the same night as the Bush/...

CRYPTIQUE -- Web humor for Luddites. (nedludd.com)

CRYPTIQUE -- Even after all this time, we still don't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

ANOTHER FOUND OBJECT You're Brigitte Bardot! What Classic Pin-Up Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

DAMN! I adore the way Maureen Dowd tilts her head to one side... WITHOUT COMMENT... A press releases that the Texas Air National Guard...

WITHOUT COMMENT... Ma: Then what, Tom? Tom Joad: I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wher...

DAMN! Most of you cuties are mercifully too young the remember the last idiot war in detail, but, trust an old timer, in the last 48 hours...

SF4 During last weekend’s energizing reading, one piece received extremely well was Diabolo’s Cadillac . So, with stunning egotism, I’ve re...

MY TV TOLD ME, TWO I really wasn’t paying attention. As many of you are well aware, when I’m working – writing, that is – a TV is usually ...

DAMN! Twinkies went bankrupt.

DAMN! The nation is safe from Cat Stevens, and am I fucking relieved.

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SF 1 Damn, but I love the Bay Area. Coming from all too frequently mindless LA, it feels so good to be back in a place where life exists ri...

SAN FRANCISCO Back from a truly fine weekend in the Bay Area which I will report on later when I have all the awaiting work and other bits ...

QUOTE OF THE DAY (courtesy some girl) In the London Guardian, retired General William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency, ...

SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!! Sunday, September 19th at 4 PM. Mick Farren reading and signing KINDLING at Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia Street (at ...

THIS JUST IN The state of California has outlawed necrophilia, which I guess puts a new spin on the phrase "drop dead gorgeous." ...

SQUIRMING LIKE A TOAD Today my TV seems burdened down by Bush spokesclones telling me that the only thing wrong with the war in Iraq is the...

SAN FRANCISCO Sunday, September 19th at 4 PM. Mick Farren reading and signing KINDLING at Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia Street in San ...