Doc 40

It’s never easy for a superhero when his teen-boy sidekick start shooting up. But weren’t Green Arrow and Green Lantern more than la...

And dare we hope Boss Goodman might be on the mend? (Check "bulletins") http://www.mannorak.com/index.htm

DON’T YOU JUST ADORE THE DRUG WAR? The following news report fell from the trailer park blue without attribution... " Authorities say a...

I SO WISH I’D WRITTEN THIS It’s long but I was laughing my ass off. And wishing I’d put it together... STEPHEN COLBERT WAS NOT FUNNY By Dave...

And you won't forget the Kool Aid, will you, Mr Jones?

Do I really need to comment on this or shall we just start searching the crawlspace under the house?

THE FALL OR JUST WISHFUL THINKING? This is what it said in the Washington Post..." Porter J. Goss was forced to step down yesterday as ...

This is a UFO, not God. THEY’RE BACK! Aeswiren (an old friend under a new name) sends this BBC interview with a hacker who claims to have ac...

THE BLUE LIGHT WAS MY BLUES In the grey of dawn, as the narcotics wore off, he started feeling the lowdown depressing blues. The cat didn’t ...

(Left) A recent and well authenticated photo of God. PRAYER DAY, PEOPLE Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer, except nobody told me unti...

DOC CRAWLS BACK INTO THE WORLD Two days ago it was third anniversary of Bush’s jet landing on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and his ...

SOMETIME AROUND MAYBE 1986 – BACK WHEN I WAS LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY – I WALKED UP TO MY FAVORITE BAKERY ON SPRING STREET AND THERE WAS A SI...

WHERE DOES THE TIME GO? Back in the day, when Carnival meant police cars burning, it was a run down Ladbroke Grove spit and sawdust gin join...

BREAD! Need we say more? http://bedazzled.blogs.com/ a site that's choc-full o'stuff. The secret word is Jam

SPACE – THE FINAL JUNKYARD This long-for-a-blog piece by Keay Davidson in the SF Chronicle was sent over by MrMR who knows I like this kind...

A POLLOCK A DAY KEEPS THE DOC AWAY But so probably does "usquebaugh-baul" - the ‘perilous whisky’...

GOOD NEWS AT LAST! THE WORLD’S MOST ALCOHOLIC SINGLE MALT The small designer distillery Bruichladdich have developed what they claim is the ...

TAKE TO THE HILLS, WE’RE DOOMED!! PART XI HCB sent over the following piece of bad news about solar storms which is something we unfortunate...

OR WE CAN HIDE IN DIGITAL ABSURDITY 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001 00100000 01110100 01100...

MO’ BETTER CITYBEAT I have a new bit in LA CityBeat about how the mainstream media still treat the geothermal destruction of the planet as ...

A DOC40 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT You can send your wire coat hangers and knitting needles to: Office of the Governor, 500 E. Capitol Ave....

THE WAR STARTS FOR REAL The near-total ban on abortions in South Dakota, just signed into law by Republican Governor Mike Rounds, is not onl...

BEWARE THE ROBOT AUTHOR Some girl sends over an link to the story of the LongPen, a robot substitute for authors who don’t want to do book s...

EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY (Don’t it?) The old maxim about pictures and a thousand words would make these three a short and damning ...

BUT... Could the time be right for one more picture? The secret word is Criminal

THE CHIC GET CHIC AND THE POOR GET FATTER HOGWATCH 2 Lever sends a full list of what Oscar celebs got in their gift bags. (see small comment...

THE MADNESS OF KING BILL MrMR sends this compassionate note – " So here's a special plea. Whatever you do, please DO NOT call Bill ...

HOGWATCH The gift bags handed to the presenters on today’s Academy Awards show are worth an estimated $100,000 each, which, is what? Between...

"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...