Doc 40

Today is St Patrick’s Day and I’m going over to 00Soul’s to eat cabbage and get drunk most likely. The IRA has hung up their guns...

Actually I'm sweating a deadline and wouldn't say more if I could. And, of course, I'm an Englishman with everything that entail...

For some reason that I don’t quite understand, I find it profoundly disturbing that 45% of the sampled group couldn’t read the paragraph bel...

Today is an anniversary I would really rather not be remembering, and maybe I shouldn’t even be making reference to it at all, especially in...

In this week’s LA CityBeat , I have written a quite uncharacteristic love letter to Barack Obama. (Photo by Steve Appleford) And let’s also ...

As it came in, hot off the wire, to a stunned populace... "Eyewitness reports claim that the initial bullet, tagging Rogers in the shou...

...and how many more to go? We've had few enough moments of unseemly glee of late so let's enjoy this one while we can. Remember, a ...

Ann Coulter addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington: "I was going to have a few comments on the other Dem...

As many of you may already know and some may have surmised, I have this attraction to rayguns. About the same time as I was learning...

(Breaks into song) Kissed so hard, Bruised my lips Hurts so good my heart just flips I gotta woman mean as she can be Sometimes I think she’...

Of course, it wasn’t actually visible here on the West Coast of the Americas, but no one exactly warned me it was happ...

Regular readers will probably be aware that around five months ago, I quite smoking, after spending my entire life wit...

“We have hats, zippers and matching boots. We are color-coordinated, we know no fear, we have support rods inserted in our rectums and we wi...

Does the time of year you're born affect your mental state -- and your potential for developing some form of mental illness? The questio...

On Sunday February 11th, some discussion took place over the role of Blatant Self Promotion (BSP) ,on a blog like Doc40 and I conceded that ...

This was sent by Wendy from something called KiroTV. Figure it’s time to get some before it’s totally illegal. "There's growing ala...

“Is this the portal to idol worship or merely the doors of perception?” In this week’s LA CityBeat I have a riff on fame, delusion, ...

Being in the process of recovering from some flu-like virus, I am hardly thrilled by the report I happened across that recounted how researc...

“Don’t worry. Don’t be afraid. I’m the only companion you need. Don’t worry. Don’t be afraid. I’m the only…” Aeswiren send the following whi...

For all of you who find the End of the World totally fascinating, an AOL news report sent over by the lovely and amazing Wend warns that an ...

As you may have noticed, the last few posts have been a little short on content, since this accursed virus smote me. I don’t know if this is...

"So I smoke cigarettes in his fevered dreams just to hang him up." Which makes the end of the world all the more attractive. (Wat...

If you encounter one of these, your only hope is to remove the batteries immediately.

HCB sent over the following… “Recently, Hershey’s announced the “Elvis Cup”, a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup that includes a layer of Banana Cre...

Among Friday’s comments, Peromyscus noted – regarding Funtopia’s online edition of my very old novel The Tale Of Willy’s Rats – “I didn...

A NOTE FROM NEWTON Although he has little time or truck with dogs, Newton the cat is still somewhat concerned about the rumors that Purina’s...

I have been, I guess, concentrating on aliens, implants, Lemmy, and other trivia for the last week or so, since in the real and deadly world...

RUSSIAN FISHERMEN CATCH SQUEAKING ALIEN AND EAT IT Village residents from the Rostov region of Russia caught a weird creature two weeks ago ...

“ So Anna Nicole dropped dead, did she ?” And in the current LA CityBeat I am concerned about the spatial machinations of Gaius Baltar and ...

No, not that future. The other future. The nasty, real, here and now, future as sent over by our wonderful but pessimistic pal aeswiren… ...

Today a letter arrived from England, and, when I opened it, it turned out to be from Boss Goodman . For those of you who aren’t already awar...

The Mooninite entry from the Urban Dictionary. (See links on right.) Two dimensional creatures that hail from the inner core of the moon. T...

HCB posts a visual comment and the message, “You left out the primary Metalunan mutant motivation, (Bad) Faith Domergue!” And you...

Molly Ivins -- RIP "Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right."

The imperative is inescapable, and thus I am unable to comment on much that is currently rushing through my mind, not least of which is whet...

“ One of the most dangerous ways homosexuality invades family life is through popular music. Parents should keep careful watch over their ch...

… yet another reason the rest of the world is getting very nervous of the USA. From the New Scientist " The Grand Canyon was formed ...

(Courtesy of egg, bacon, chips, and beans ) And then, after all that grease, and thanks to Wendy (who would be revolted by the above), we ca...

For fans of Newton the cat, (no, the picture is not of him but one of his better groomed stunt doubles) he was not well yesterday but, after...

...that it had been well over a month since Doc 40 had run anything approaching what some girl somewhat disparagingly refers to as cheesecak...

You might wonder why I’m devoting so much time to a forty year-old plastic toy when the world is beset by war, famine, pestilence, death*, t...

In my travels I happened across this picture from long, long, long, long, long ago when Keith Richards meant something more than Johnny Depp...

The President of the United States managed to read an hour-long speech without stumbling over the words, and the punditing heads on my TV t...

I suppose it was kinda inevitable that I spent a goodly part of the day just passed wondering why the hell I wasn’t on stage as advertised a...

Supplied by some girl (I hope this isn't too small for some computers.)

God was unavailable for comment. His burning bush was down. The secret word cannot be uttered.

This less than sharp picture is of what was called The Johnny Seven One-Man Army, and I discovered it in accidental passing being offered on...

I woke and almost immediately threw up. I had been at a party the previous night and, still pissed off, I guess, at the termination of the s...