Doc 40

CRYPTIQUE SPECIAL – I’M THINKING ABOUT IT The significance has still not fully sunk in. Suicide bombers have attacked a major international ...

AND THEN, ON THE WAY TO BED, I FLIP ON CNN TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY WORD ABOUT THE BREAKING STORY OUT OF CHINA THAT THE DOLLAR IS BEING ALL...

AIR CONDITIONERS HUM AS L.A. SWEATS AND POISONOUSLY SWELTERS UNDER THE THREAT OF A FULL YELLOW MOON. I SHOULD PROBABLY WRITE REALLY DEPRESSI...

TUCK YOU, TUCKER Tucker Carlson is an annoying neo-yuppie TV-boy and professional right-winger who believes that wearing a red polka-dot bow...

CALIENTE FUCKING LOCO We might as well give up arguing about global warming. The way it feels tonight, we’re in the terminal stage. It’s 2.1...

GERRY THOMAS -- RIP (The inventor of the TV dinner)

AS THE WORLD TURNS And the day rushes by a dizzying speed (and I seem to be achieving nothing) I pluck this item from this morning’s NY Time...

MAKING QUITE HORRIBLE SENSE The link below was sent by kaymo and I would humbly recommend taking a look at it and becoming very, very parano...

ANYHOW... It also occurs to me, before I retire to TV and bed, that even if this doesn't, in the end, bring down the whole wretched pa...

LATE NIGHT TOAD WATCH Glancing through the first of the online morning news it seems that Rove is now dumping the problem on the equally rep...

(Did anyone see Johnny Depps' Gonzo t-shirt on Leno last night? I want one! I want one!)

LA CITYBEAT Two quite lengthy gems o’mine in this week's issue... ...on celebrity... http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=2340&Issue...

TOADWATCH (Maybe best to read yesterday first.) Today Karl Rove – described last night by Jon Stewart as "the only man in Washington wi...

THE FALL OF THE DARK TOWER – SHALL WE GET THE PARTY STARTED? Gather round friends and neighbors, this might just be the best vertical fun we...

MORE ACID DISCOVERIES Spent the weekend writing about last week’s Jihadist nastiness and also the horrors of contemporary celebrity. The pro...

An overwhelming concern for personal safety is, at best, pragmatism and has never been deemed a high virtue in any culture worth a damn.

"WE WERE PACKED IN LIKE SARDINES WAITING TO DIE..." Right now I find myself at a loss to think, let alone analyze, and simply watc...

IN THE MATTER OF NY TIMES REPORTER JUDITH MILLER GOING TO THE SLAM This would be my impression, open of course to comment. Bush’s Dark Lord ...

MORE NARCO-TRIVIA Munz just sent me the following and I couldn’t resist simply posting it. I hesitate to say more than, back in the day, tha...

INDEPENDENCE DAY As an Englishman, it’s a little hard to get worked up over July 4th. As a pyromaniac, I’m inordinately fond of fireworks, b...

HAVE THIS SHOW CANCELLED! I returned from some external local wanderings around the pharmacy and the hardware store and found George Bush mo...

IF YOU GO DOWN IN THE WOODS TODAY*... Although I’m well aware that there are many more crucial things going on around the planet, I've m...

IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTS (712) BOARD (just over there>>>)... I really don’t recall ever being on a bill with Chas and Dave, but,...

IT’S 2008, OKAY? (ALL ACROSS THE USA) Seems like the 2008 Presidential Election is underway already. I’m no great Hillary Clinton admirer, b...

BEFORE EVEN THERE WAS EDDIE COCHRAN ... Mercifully the English are obsessive about preserving cultural minutiae otherwise we would have miss...

I MEANT TO POST THIS ON SUNDAY But the weekend grew hectic and the world again turned into one giant movie promotion with live ammunition, a...

WARNING, MICK FARREN, WARNING! So there I am, it’s 8.40 and I’m watching back-to-back reruns of Law & Order , scratching my feet and ref...

WHAT ME WORRY? Michael Jackson walks, and do I worry? Actually I’m kinda glad. I spent too much of my youth listening for the ominous bellow...

ONE CANNOT HELP BUT THINKING Smoking marijuana rather than ranting about it, one I cannot help thinking. I just watched Kevin Spacey in Beyo...

SOME OPTIMISM FROM MUNZ (HA-HA) I received the following from Munz regarding yesterday’s post... Mick: Obviously I share your half-century f...

ANNE BANCROFT -- RIP

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I’VE HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP Yesterday the Supreme Court handed the Federal Government and the DEA ove...

A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT After a plate of Chinese hors d’oeuvres, and inhaling too many paint fumes (don’t ask), I found myself in the ...

THE BIG OLD COMMENTS BOARD IS BACK, AND MANY THANKS TO, AND A BIG HAND FOR FUNTOPIA RICH FOR ALL HIS HELP AND INVESTIGATION.

Again I have the feeling of living in a damaged starship.

COMMUNICATIONS From some girl... it's "felt." mark felt. not feld. so we would not confuse the two, i don't think. but, wo...

HA! So Deep Throat finally came out of the closet and into Vanity Fair , revealing himself to be Mark Feld (not to be confused with the real...

D-BRANE THE HARD WAY To explain the process of protracted fiction to anyone who has never so engaged is not easy, and I’ve always considered...

READ WHILE I WRITE As I steam, majestic and half mad, to end of this novel that has taken over my life – no, I’m writing it, not reading it ...

A GEOGRAPHY LESSON (OR MAYBE GEO-POLITICAL) Every one paying attention? Okay, so click on this map take a look and then come back... http://...

UP THE WORKERS!

SO WHERE WAS DOC LAST WEEK? A moment of calm comes in the production of a work of fiction when (the author hopes) it becomes clear that it i...

YES, I'VE BEEN WORKING LIKE A MANIAC, BUT THE BOOK CONFLAGRATION IS ALMOST FINISHED AND THERE WILL BE A MASSIVE POSTING OF ALL THAT IS B...

HOW THEY BROUGHT THE REAL BAD NEWS If this is true, and the oil has peaked, THEY know it, and are preparing for the next phase. Which is t...

STILL REACTING TO RATZINGER Looking at first responses to Pope Ratzinger, I still haven’t formulated my reaction except a quaint old-fashion...

JUST IN TIME FOR ADOLF’S BIRTHDAY Hey, not only do we have a Pope, but one whose formative philosophies were formed in the Hitler Youth. Thi...

DAN DARE NEVER HAD THESE PROBLEMS I can only reflect that this modern wonderworld of high technology seems to be higher maintenance than hav...

I MUST HAVE MORE POWER TO THE SHIELDS, MR SCOTT! I have failed to achieve much this weekend because my computer has been under intense and c...

WEEKENDEST LINKS APOCALYPSE NOW...OOOPS...CHRISTIANITY TODAY This is all getting a tad absurd. I mean, I don’t mind my stuff being reprinted...