Doc 40

MORE ON LITTLE TONY Phil Franks sends the following from his extensive archive... http://www.ibiblio.org/mal/MO/philm/friends/littlet.html

EXTRA! EXTRA! WILD TURKEYS THREATEN YOSEMITE! (So we needn’t feel so bad about eating the bastards) http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me...

GOBBLE FUCKING GOBBLE I learned a lot today. As in... South Caroline is the #1 turkey producing state in the nation. (But, unfortunately, th...

LINK WRAY -- RIP (Nobody told me)

AND ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF DEALEY PLAZA... http://www.wonkette.com/politics/conspiracy-theories/index.php

SCENES FROM IDIOT AMERICA No comments, just read ’em and weep... "The godfather of the Dominionists is D. James Kennedy, the most influ...

THE MORE TIME PASSES, THE MORE OF A BILL CLINTON FAN I BECOME And happy to see that he is finally climbing down off the fence on Iraq. http:...

Damn it, but that panda can sleep!

BEWARE! THE PANDACAM IS ADDICTIVE!

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS, WHATEVER ELSE YOU DO, YOU GOTTA WATCH THE PANDA CAM! http://animal.discovery.com/cams/pandavidr.html The secret word...

SINGULARITY So it’s Thursday in what is proving to be a long and anxious week, with the Santa Annas blowing out from the canyons, where pach...

BILL O’REILLY has started an enemies list and I sooooo want to be on it! http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/14/oreilly-mccarthyism/

WHILE SONY MURDERS YOUR COMPUTER... http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20051115-1407-sony-copyprotection.html (Class action suit?)

ANYONE FANCY A HEINEKEN COMMERCIAL? http://www.ps260.com/editors/hein_dominatrix.html

GET ME OFF THIS FUCKING PLANET! Before the six disc DVD collection of the best of Oprah gets me! (That's true torture.)

MY BRANE STILL HURTS No time today to continue yesterday’s mental stumblings, but, fear not, I will return to them. Maybe another part of th...

I just realized it’s the 13th. Maybe that explains some of what’s below. Triskaidekaphobia may have unconsciously set in. On the other hand,...

MY BRAIN HURTS (When in crisis look to the old Python) MY BRANE HURTS (When in crisis look to string) Unless you have the fortune to become ...

LOCAL GLOAT A smug happiness descends on Doc40 with today’s news that the voters in California have seemingly proved they’ve finally come to...

I just heard "The Times They Are A'Changing" and "I Can See For Miles" on back to back TV commercials. On whom do I...

PARANOIA, PORNOGRAPHY AND TORTURE First Paranoia... The last couple of weeks have been something of private nightmare, which may explain why...

MARTIAN CHRONICLES (How else do you follow vampires?) In 1990 I published a novel titled Mars, The Red Planet . And in it, I made one of the...

THIS WOULD SEEM TO NAIL IT From MrMT. In yesterday’s Washington Post , E. J. Dionne Jr. seen to drive a stake to the heart of the White Hous...

SEX, LIES, AND LITERATURE To write fictional sex is unavoidably self revealing, and if you can’t handle the revelation, don’t go join the ga...

HCB DOES NOT AGREE "To paraphrase an old lawyer joke...Q: What’s the indictment of one Bush henchman? A: A good start." But from o...

LAST NIGHT IN AMERICA, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO PUT OUR CLOCKS SOMEWHERE. I PUT MINE IN THE MICROWAVE. MARS IS VISIBLE http://www.space.com/space...

ONE DOWN, HOW MANY MORE TO GO? To paraphrase an old lawyer joke...Q: What’s the indictment of one Bush henchman? A: A good start. MrMR (who ...

MIERS DONE GONE LIKE A TURKEY THROUGH THE CORN And I can’t improve on Wonkette... The radical right-wing sleestaks that stalk this land hopp...

THE WORKS OF GENERAL ZOD? (From MSNBC) An Austrian man who claimed he was Superman and could fly was hospitalized early Tuesday after leapin...

LATE NIGHT FINAL FOCUS In one of those moments of weary clarity, I had a final thought on the whole New Times business (see most of yesterda...

MILESTONE/MILLSTONE " U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, director of the force's combined press center, wrote in an e-mail to reporte...

POST SCRIPT (WHICH OF COURSE, IN THE BLOGOSPHERE, PRECEDES THE SCRIPT IT POSTS) It just occurred to me that maybe New Times is the alternati...

NEW TIMES/BAD TIMES Hell, I didn’t like it when underground became alternative... The news was out yesterday that the long rumored a merger ...

WEEKEND READIN' A whole lot of really interesting stuff has been coming down Doc40's pike in the last 48 hours with which to occupy ...

HAPPY 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR TO THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT THE HELL I’M TALKING ABOUT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_...

LAUGH OR FUCKING CRY Kaymo sent over the following that would have me rolling on the floor if this slick-suited sonofabitch wasn’t so hideou...

BEYOND THE WILDEST NIGHTMARE While still dealing more the usual crap that flesh is heir to, (maybe one day I’ll look back and laugh and tell...

WOKE UP THIS MORNING And the stress was waiting, tres beaucoup, but, while I cope and until I come back with more, check out this piece of n...

AN "I WISH I’D WRITTEN THAT" MOMENT In San Antonio they tell me that power and money are one They can buy us or sell you to keep y...

SINGLE THOUGHT ON A VERY SLOW SATURDAY After a week that left a quantum deal to be desired, I actually slept all day and, when I woke, the w...

PLEASE, SHUT THE FUCK UP Really, enough. In LA the temperatures once again push close to the 100F mark, the planet’s in the toilet, I don’t ...

AND NOW, A PICTURE OF OUR GLORIOUS LEADER... http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5812/438/1600/cthulhu1.jpg The secret word is Arkham

PUNK ISSUE Two new stories from your humble servant in today’s issue of LA CityBeat . The first is a erudite bit on the roots of punk (this ...

H5N1 This virus, also known as the Avian or Bird Flu has been all over the news today, and Doc40 the Uberparanoid really wants to know why. ...

SUPREME SACRIFICE If your mind boggles that our pal Georgie Bush, in the wake of the Michael Brown/FEMA scandal, is now appointing a lawer p...

IN THE MATTER OF PENGUINS I’ve had a whole bunch of other things on my mind of late so I really haven’t been paying much attention to who’s ...

AUGUST WILSON -- RIP

I see the comments board has reached all the sevens. Dunno what the Rastas will have to say about that. (Have much to say, especially abo...

REPUBLICANS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS ... " But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were you...

TURN UP THE SPEAKERS This comes from logicgrl and is well worth the effort... http://filmstripinternational.com

FIFTY YEARS Fifty years ago today James Dean died near Paso Robles as his Porsche Spyder poughed into Donald Turnupseed’s ragged Ford, and t...

GO FIGURE THIS ONE, PAT ROBERTSON While the Gulf Coast is under water, LA is now having a late September 100F heatwave, and Chatsworth (porn...

AIN’T RETRIBUTION SWEET? Could it be that House Majority Leader Tom Delay (the man I’ve always though of as Bush’s loudly born-again Martin ...

MEANWHILE, BACK IN SHINJUKU (With the right translation, nothing is ever lost) Kaoru extends his index finger and, almost without hesitation...

MAYBE I SHOULD JUST STOP WATCHING TELEVISION Of course, I won’t. In this week’s LA CityBeat I even have a riff on how TV news came through ...

SO NOW WHAT? As I watch, Rita turns into a level 5 and, while still recovering from my adventures in Tokyo, I wonder what the hell is going ...

OKAY SO IT’S TUESDAY... Just back from Tokyo Narita and boy are my arms tired (literally) – plus I guess a pun on the word "disorientat...

TODAY I FLY TO TOKYO FOR SOME READIN’ AND ROCKIN’ SO DOC 4O WILL FOR SILENT FOR PRECISELY A WEEK – UNLESS OF COURSE YOU HAPPEN TO BE AT THE ...

THE DOG DID NOT EAT GEORGE’S HOMEWORK, BUT, IF IT DID, IT’S REALLY THE FAULT OF HILLARY AND THE MEDIA Ben Stein is a piece of human redundan...