Doc 40

"I’m Bettie Page. How do you think I feel?" MADONNA? I don’t quite know why I find myself defending Madonna except that Munz se...

KINDLING IN PAPERBACK My true fine novel Kindling is now out in paperback so hie thee to the bookstore or Amazon of thy choice and pick-up ...

? "ARE YOU SURE YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT INCARNATION, ZIPPY?" (sent by valerie)

BILL O’REILLY IS OFFICIALLY INSANE Amid all the other stuff that’s going – like Bush’s efforts to convince us he’s busy negotiating some kin...

THE QUESTIONS BECOME KINDA ESOTERIC WHEN YOU’RE TALKING TESLA In whatever free time (there’s a laugh) I find for myself, I’ve been working o...

"Collins...Joan Collins." TALES OF THE DECADENT EIGHTIES (More on Ned Sublette – see Thursday Feb16th. ) The following comes from ...

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. I also had a riff in last week's LA CityBeat on cyber comments... http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3356&...

MEANWHILE, IN AMERICA ... DETROIT -- A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, ...

? "Like someone asked the other day, where, on an MP3 download, do you hide the coded messages from Satan?"

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME This guy and his kitty live in Nigeria. In all probability they have less than 1% of the material stuff you have...

DOC IS BACK... Easing back into gear after what has been a very gruelling couple of weeks, Doc40 kicks off with a dull but scarey report fro...

OH YEAH... DFisherman (see the big comments board) and J are absolutely right. The kid on the bed is Leonard Nimoy in the 1952 movie Kid Mon...

AS REGULAR VISITORS WILL KNOW... For the last few days, I have been laboring in the literary salt mines, and am still in the square- eyed mo...

" Some men rob you with a six gun, some with a fountain pen ." -- Woody Guthrie THIS SHIT MUST STOP! You haven’t seen me much in t...

BEYOND BOOZE? WHAT DO THEY MEAN BEYOND BOOZE? Could sin and nymphomania be a form of rehab? I'll think about this as soon as I get this...

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN In this instance, how Willy Nelson, by recording Ned Sublette’s old tune "Cowboys Are Frequently,...

I’ve been wanting to post this cover for a while, but never had even a lame excuse. Would the caption "You are what you shoot!" q...

I’M SORRY BUT I’M STILL LAUGHING Okay, so I’ve always loathed the Bush/Cheney administration, but, even if this was Bobby Kennedy, I would b...

Doc40 All-Time Icon # 12 – William S. Burroughs "I may have blown away my wife, but I’ve only ever used a shotgun to make artworks....

"I’m a fucking quail. I’m keeping out of this." The secret word is Duck

DICK CHENEY SHOOTS SOME OTHER RICH GUY Here, just read the story, I’m still laughing my ass off. In the manner of Nelson Munz. http:/...

MEANWHILE... NYC is frozen solid and LA bakes and burns in a 90F Red Flag Alert. Who among you would deny the planet’s fucked? CRYPTIQUE – ...

But later things got easier... THE SIMPLE LI(F)E 2 BUSH EXPLAINING MEDICARE DRUG BILL -- VERBATIM QUOTE Woman in Audience : "I don'...

GAY PENGUINS For the latest in the ongoing story. And from Al Jazeera, no less. Send by Valerie (why does your email keep coming back) http:...

The last 48 hours have been, how can I put this, creatively busy. But, I hope, later today, I will catch up with everything including how th...

MO READIN’ – LA CITYBEAT My new media column is out today. Primarily about political doublespeak/ http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3270...

THURSDAY IS CULINARY CLIP DAY The secret word is Bird

"I am not Bob Dylan. I am definitely not Bob Dylan." Doc40 All-Time Icons # 11 – Vincent Price

IF YOU NEED TO ASK THE WAY TO VALHALLA, THE ODDS ARE YOU WON’T MAKE IT THERE With so much else going, plus all the Brokeback jokes, the stor...

"Ann Coulter said drain the swamp."

ALL JUST HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF As I still stand in awe muttering "what the fuck, they’re storming the Danish Embassy over cartoons ...

THE POETRY OF THIS JUSTICE PROVES COMPLEXLY COMPLEX "LOS ANGELES - A man was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 11 years in prison after plead...

"I have made you an offer you won’t refuse." THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOOGLE (Or maybe the ten point program? Or maybe the Kryptoni...

MUSTANG, FORD... The adorable hipspinster tells a vivid tale of driving her mustang across country. (Only her’s was yellow and a convertible...

..AND PENGUINS Doc 40 usually rolls out penguin whacking at Yule for our simple amusement, but it would seem that there are folks out there ...

"Gomez, what did that fool Ann Coulter say about fascism?" Doc40 All-Time Icons # 11 – Morticia Addams

In the clear air above him, jet aircraft were fucking. Was it a sign he wondered? Had the predictions got the Rapture all wrong? At least it...

THE SIMPLE LI(F)E (Observations on the World of W #1.) The realization came as something of a shock that I had really stopped believing anyt...

Fingers crossed, but I think the alien attack on blogspot is over. (Or maybe it's just a lull.)

AL LEWIS -- RIP When I lived in NY, back in the roaring 80s, I would often see Al standing outside his restaurant, Grandpa’s on Bleeker Stre...

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON I can’t say enough good things about Clive Thompson’s Collision Detection . He comes up with such good stuff. Like...

"Why aren’t you obsessively adoring me any more, you short-attention-span bastards?"

WANNA SEE A CLIP OF THE MC5 FROM LIKE AROUND 1970? Actually, for you sticklers, it’s the MC4 plus a substitute bass player whose name I don’...

TODAY BUDDY HOLLY HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 47 YEARS http://earcandymag.com/gpg-buddyholly.htm Whoever imagined I'd live so long. I still rememb...

SO WHAT DID GROUCHO REALLY SAY? On Tuesday we were discussing the legend of how Groucho Marx supposedly threatened the life of Richard Nixon...

but maybe the Feds should also be looking into the actions of politically motived canines. (from Doug the Bass) BUT... SAPPHO KORNER – RIP (...

MEANWHILE I have a piece in the new La CityBeat on fitness and how to avoid it. http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3244&IssueNum=139 #...

WANNA WATCH A SPEEDFREAK IN A CAR CHASE? http://www.baitcar.com/videos/oncoming

Doc40 All-Time Icons # 10 – Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps ("Because I’m the one in the black threads, motherfucker. That’s why.")