Doc 40

some girl informs us that the quote below is from Carl Zwanzig. (Which I must confess prompts the question -- " Who the hell is Carl Zw...

"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." Anonymous comment discover...

MICK’S MEDIA ...is the title of my brand new column in LA CityBeat. The first one was out two weeks ago and now we have number 2, which, bei...

OH FUCK, HERE WE GO... From MSNBC... North Korea acknowledges it has nuclear weapons – North Korea's government publicly acknowledged ...

MAYBE THE ONLY WAY TO GET RID OF THE SONS OF BITCHES IS TO DRIVE A LONG IRON STAKE THROUGH THEIR HEARTS " I'm sorry, but John Lenn...

MORE ABOUT NORTH KOREA, THE DEAR LEADER AND THE NOVA HEAT From today’s NY Times on the Kim Jong-il horrorshow – http://www.nytimes.com/20...

MAYBE NORTH KOREA WON’T BE SAVED BY MANDATORY HAIRCUTS Stress causes me to forget things. I can’t remember exactly where I found this – Aus...

The world, the flesh and the devil – not to mention the sundry horned minions of all three – are currently running me ragged, straight for t...

SEEN IT, DONE IT Sent by Mr MR " United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam...

(Total reverse order.) OH, THE CROW IS BACK.

AND IF THAT WASN'T BAD ENOUGH THE CROW HAS BECOME NOTHING MORE THAN A PLUG!

FUCK THIS SHIT (in a dull, weary, and defeated tone) I have been advised on the comments board to be more in touch with my feminine side. ...

Iraq’s had their election, the Shi-ites are apparently in power, so our boys can come now, right? Yeah but... ALL EYES TURN TO GOBBLER’S K...

MONDAY READIN' I have been a Gore Vidal fan as long as I can remember, and his latest take on George Bush indicates that he’s far from ...

( now we know where Jessica and Ashlee came from -- see below )

DOC MOREAU ROCKS AND RULES From BCBeck Here come the manimals, closely followed by that species which is directly below them on the evolu...

ICEBERG SLIM This fucking week has really hit the iceberg. And right now I’m floating on the tattooed harpooner's coffin, to mix shipwr...

CROW CONCERN I like crows. A lot. Indeed, in the pathological cartoon anthropomorphism of the late Edward Barker, I am one. (See logo top ...

I NEED A DAY OFF Having just completed a massive mess of work on assassinations and conspiracy theory, I’m taking the day off. Just as wel...

Today the flight from reality is all mine as I avoid the Bush coronation, (or, as Dr Susan Block calls him Thanatos, Lord of Death, Destruct...

DINOSAURS FROM THE EMAIL Regarding last week’s post about dinosaur-eating mammals, kaymo has comments. (And if anyone wonders what this is...

I SEE YOUR HAIR IS BURNING 85F in LA today. I’ve not only seen the science fiction movie in which we seem to be living, but I think I’ve r...

Are we living in a science fiction movie or what? A probe just landed on Titan and there's a ship on it way to blow the guts out of a co...

The secret word is Valium

Are we living in a science fiction movie or what? Last week 20 inches of rain fell here in Southern California. This week we have a Santa An...

THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE (Jungian Mix) When I called the current power structure fascist, some of my nearest and dearest accused me of a ...

IT’S BEEN REAL Remember how, earlier in the week, I was concerned that I was becoming increasing detached from reality? (See Tuesday) Well...

Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money can not be eaten...

PREHISTORIC WEIRDNESS (Alley oop-oop etc.) The story at the end of the link below showed up in Wired , and, as a dinosaur enthusiast from i...

Did you ever have one of those days when the entire planet and a couple of extra dimensions of nastiness seemed to be making a study of bust...

CALL THIS A REALITY? (I’m not ready for reality.) I don’t know if it’s the California rain, or black dogs, or too much bad holiday TV, or s...

ELVIS ABIDES Today would be Elvis Presley’s 70th birthday, if he wasn’t, of course, dead. The tributes are hardly being paid in the way th...

MO DOGS Let me tell you, mama, what that black dog done done to me Let me tell you, mama, what that black dog done done to me He cheated...

YOU AIN’T NEVER CAUGHT A RABBIT... Regular visitors to Doc40 know that the usual stock-in-trade of the weblog is cultural outrage and popul...

To paraphrase Iggy from 37 years ago... AND NOW IT’S 2005 AND FUCKING HELL, WE’RE STILL ALIVE (Of course, some of us aren’t, but what can...

Just over two hours ago it was 2004. At 11.58, I stepped out onto the balcony to listen the calendar change, noble in my new Yukata. The con...

HAPPY 2005, BOYS AND GIRLS – FOLLOW THAT FALLING BALL Unless someone asks the Deviants to play, I no longer go out on New Year’s Eve, consi...

EITHER THE ALIENS ARE BACK OR THE TRENCHCOAT MAFIA ARE TRYING TO BRING DOWN A JET Cleveland -- Authorities are investigating a mysterious l...

FROM MY OLD PAL STEVAN... There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means...

ATLAS SHRUGGED I guess it’s serious when I find myself quoting bloody Ayn Rand, if only for effect. The planet twitches, a nervous twitch,...

"So far so good," he muttered with the unease of a guy defusing a bomb and wondering if he should cut the red wire. The secret ...

DOC 40 IS KILLING A PLAGUE OF POPUPS. NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED ETC. The secret word is Fuck this shit . CRYPTIQUE -- Die you b...

Even though I earlier found myself subjected to a featurette about Paris Hilton’s Christmas on one of the tv gossip shows, which almost made...

(Incidently, Billy Oblivion is doing a great jingle bell rock over on the monster comments board.)

HO HO HO Q – Why is America overweight? A – It gave up smoking. (And before you Brit homies laugh too hard, remember you’re on the same ...

OH...CHRISTMAS Another wartime Christmas? Tet offensive? The Battle of the Bulge? Looking up from Iraq on TV, I can’t help thinking about ...

CHRISTMAS CRYPTIQUE -- You gonna see me coming in a big black Cadillac

REMEMBER THE NWO? WONDER WHERE THE ALIENS WENT? Real weird, real paranoid, and real big fun (and, by some very odd syncronicity) there’s ...

ANOTHER SYMPTOM OF AN EXTREMELY SICK PLANET THAT WE CAN TOTALLY IGNORE AS WE DRIVE OUR SUVs AND CLAIM A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS, RI...

LAWD GIVE ME STRENGTH I can only think that if you take all of the intolerable religious nuts from Europe, toss them out into a huge conti...

JAPAN THREE I walk alone onto the stage, seriously wondering if, this time, I have gone completely too far. I am about to read unaccompanie...

RED V BLUE – THE SOUND OF ONE WEBSITE COMPLAINING The following comes from HCB... Hi Mick Nice report from Japan--looking forward to more...

JAPAN ONE It’s taken a while to process what was going on during my recent trip to Japan. For a while, all I had was a wealth of powerful b...

NOW THIS IS WHAT I CALL A SUNDAY KINDA READ (Of course, it’s only Friday, but what the hell?) From the Seattle Weekly , Is George Bush the ...

DAMAGE PLAN? GIMME A BREAK Shoot the guitar player? Don’t you just love the hungry metal freak with his empty wallet on a chain. I mean, wh...

WHY EAT THE RICH STILL SEEMS LIKE A PLAN I sometimes wonder why the wealthy try so hard to be loathsome. For eleven years, Pale Male and...

AND NOW SOMETHING EQUALLY WEIRD AND COMPLEX ABOUT JOHN COLTRANE... http://www.heplaysjazz.btinternet.co.uk/giants.html The secret worl...

CHECK OUT STRING THEORY If nothing else it provides great science fiction excuses for the fantastic, the impossible, and the absurdly psych...

RECOVERY I have to confess that I spent the last week dozing deliriously in front of the TV with some kind of respiratory ailment, which is...

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...