Doc 40

Just reminding y'all, neighbors, I have a new and quite alarming non-fiction book – WHO’S WATCHING YOU? – published by Disinformation w...

This show was produced by our good buddy Erik. Set your Tivo.

Having spent far too much of my time thinking about the fictional Italian Mafia, I find this whale story truly fascinating. I was always str...

"Dorothy, are you sure there’s no such thing as sequin poisoning?”

Of course I’m disappointed with what I wrote. (But I always am, kinda. I think it’s motivational.) I wanted to sum up seven years of...

The secret word is Cannoli

This link is to a very reasonable argument why Frank Lunz -- the human slime -- should be taken out and hung from a handy lamppost, or the h...

And these smug boyos look like they too might benefit from at least a cull, if not extermination, possibly right along with their supposed t...

What can I say except this has to be a virtual artifact, and Ballard always saw it coming from the very get-go. The secret word is Vermil...

We have a brand new Chinese Panda-cam but I suspect it’s having trouble with all the traffic and a lack of bandwidth because sometim...

The corpse of Albert Anastasia. Yet another theft from Tom Sutpen . I just can’t help myself. His shit is so cool. I have to finally admit t...

From Valerie... "...This amazing art installation was made by Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo for the Internatio...

So here we all are, approaching the evening of the final denoument and the last hour after which The Sopranos ends forever. I recall how, o...

Which I guess have a common theme, and the theme is sex, or, to be more precise, the clichés of sex, which, right at the moment, and to be w...

An opium den, wistfully published without comment.

Newton would like to remind yet again you that The Animal Rescue Site hasn’t gone away and still needs daily clicks to meet their quota of t...

THE SECOND COMING By William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall a...

The following tale comes from UK Steve… LONDON (AFP) - A police force is to put more officers on the streets during full moons because they ...

There’s porno-kitsch, and there’s inept porno-kitsch, and then there’s this creation (stolen from the site RetroRaunch ). If nothing else it...

Want to impeach the hideous Dick Cheney? One way to start the balls of retribution rolling is to click here . (Think Cheney wears sock garte...

Well, I’m no longer busy, but, damn, am I tired. Indeed, if there was anything worthwhile on 400 channels of television, I would probably be...

Maybe ( turn out the light )

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Anyone for some Saturday deciphering? (The bloody Da Vinci Code is all over my television.) Or you could watch a naked dog lip-sync to Bill ...

“Don’t say we didn’t warn you.” (photo by Gerard Malanga) The following (from Nature ) was sent over by HCB a while ago, but I shuff...

“I don’t want to worry anyone, but I think the cat is radioactive.”

"The female cheetahs that prowl the Serengeti in Tanzania appear to live up to their name, scientists have shown. DNA analysis of the s...

Be-Bop-A-Lula is very definitely his baby. And we do NOT mean maybe The secret word is Rumble

I hang my head in shame that Doc40 completely forgot to appropriately recognize the 100th birthday of John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison) la...

The Chinese have a saying that goes something like this: "When someone shares with you something of value, you have an obligati...

Since no one in either Congress or the Senate bothers to read the legislation they’re passing, this little gem (brought to our attention by ...

BEIJING - China’s former top drug regulator was sentenced to death for taking bribes to approve untested medicines, as the country’s main qu...

Henry McCarty 1859 – 1881, better known as Billy the Kid, but went by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, verteran of New ...

We don’t hear much from logicgrl these days, but this was with some stuff about leeches she sent and us, and a damned useful tip it is too. ...

After two years on the lam, they caught Reggie. Reggie was a probably-no-longer-wanted former pet alligator dumped in Machado Lake in Los An...

Wayne Fontana of the Mindbenders (who of you is old enough to remember “The Game of Love”?) would seem to have totally lost his aging mind. ...

Just another reminder that, if you click on the My Space page that our longtime comrade Rich Deakin has put up for his forthcoming book Keep...

I’ve been aware of various news reports concerning Fundamentalist Christians making increasing efforts to turn the US Military into a “Chris...

But back at the robot/human discussion of a couple of weeks ago, I’m wondering about the relationship between this lady in the futuristic sk...

This is a Bushie. They are still dangerous. Give ‘em an inch and they take the Constitution. This broad could even have ended up being the ...

Newton is not at all sure whether the random kitten generator isn’t just too cute. (Thanks Suzy) But I’m attempting to cheer myself up. Here...

Can you imagine walking into a bar and ordering a Jack Daniels and Moxie?

Which I am attempting to combat (or maybe indulge) – as I do battle with deadlines, the prose form, and the blues in the night (not to ment...

And fidicen didn’t exactly cheer up the day by sending over this story from Common Dreams that indicates the shit is worse than we think it...

And finally, although I can’t read the language, the message is clear. (reprise) "The Commander-in-Chief answers him while chasing a fl...

Which I have declared because I have a fuck of a lot of writing to do today, and very little to comment upon except that I was amused to see...

I have the famous picture of Elvis and Nixon on the wall of my study, but maybe I should have this one too. Once again stolen fro...