Doc 40

The article was about a proposed new skyscraper in San Francisco, taller than the Trans America Pyramid, but the illustration jumped ...

“Troops Out Now” is an easy slogan, but actually to extricate the US military from Iraq and George Bush’s asinine and foully fu...

This story headed “ Eight-million-year-old bug is alive and growing ” culled by HCB from the New Scientist strikes me as a really bad idea....

In this week’s LA CityBeat , I mark the passing of the Weekly World News and fifteen years of the inimitable and irreplaceable Bat Boy, and...

“Happy anniversary, folks.” In 378 at the battle of Adrianople, Gothic horsemen destroyed the attacking Roman forces led by Emperor Valens. ...

This is a still from Left Behind: Eternal Forces as devout Christians gun down the unbelievers. The Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game...

This has to be by far the most foolishly pretentious guitar in the history of rock & roll. (Shared with us by HCB) Gotta sleep now, and...

"Hi, I’m a badger but I’m also a nocturnal bio-weapon.” This strange tale of the Iraqi War sent by UK Steve, has been somewhat o...

I keep finding all these sites where you can download bits and pieces of The Deviants and like stuff. Human Garbage , is the live recording ...

Since The Simpsons Movie seems to be exploited all over, let’s put Bart to our own nefarious use. What did the Jesuits say? “Give us the ch...

I have never had anything specific against Starbucks. I’ve never been in one, I didn’t like the ambiance, and thought they were just part of...

Here is a piece by Allen Ginsberg from two wars ago, demonstrating that nothing changes. (Thanks Valerie) These are the names of the com...

The White House – ever a friend of the earth – recently issued a “wolf management proposal” – the 10J rule – that would give states a licens...

Napoleon in rags and the language that he used? As regular visitors to Doc40 may have gleaned, it’s been a long hard week during whic...

Unfortunately the concept of revolution was apt to become a little confused at times. It was probably the acid in the water supply.

Does that seem an unreasonable demand? (Or maybe I just need some sleep and should post something more logical later.) Oh yeah, I keep forg...

This is real, not a Spielberg set for his next Philip K. Dick movie. This is Dubai. This is what the mega-rich demand from their arch...

Whiskey river take my mind.* (Don't let her memory torture me.) I have written myself into the ground. My hands hurt, my arms ache, my b...

They are coming for us! More and more of them! There may be pods in the laundry room! Will no one help us? The secret word is Idiopathic

Remember how, a couple of years ago, we all got all misty about the movie March of the Penguins ? Well, it seems like the penguins’ marching...

Our pals in Holland, the Buggers are back. Which is a damned good thing because I always relish their stuff, and I’m also w...

Our pal Rich sends this email from the middle of it all… “It seems whilst you swelter in LA, here in Blighty, or at least in Gloucestershire...

“Ferocious, pack-feeding jumbo squid have invaded waters off California's central coast and are devouring local fish populati...

Ever since I first learned how to post pictures on Doc40, there has been an ongoing discussion about how I have a notable penchant for posti...

My mind boggles at state of the consciousness of the picture editor at the London’s tabloid Daily Mail apparently who dispatched a photogra...

And if you are the only person the planet not to have heard the story of Oscar the Kitty of Death, here’s the link . ( From Valerie who does...

In the this week’s LA CityBeat I have a media column that examines why so many jokes are made and satirical bits done that have the basic ...

And just to prove that the USA does not have a lock on historical irrationality, seems that the kids in Moscow think Uncle Joe was, we...

Frank Zappa is to have a street named after him in Berlin. The German city's Marzahn-Hellersdorf district board approved renaming 'R...

There comes a moment in this world after a combo of wine and vodka when there's nothing left except to reveal that the secret word is Aa...

(Thanks Valerie)

We’ve had so little detailed coverage out here about the disastrous weather in the UK, I still have to get my mind around it, and any...

When the following words come from an old-line conservative like Paul Craig Roberts – a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury u...

“I’m dead, you moron.” Quite by accident, because I don’t in anyway follow these things, I discovered that some wrestler formerly know as J...

(Donated by Miss Templeton)

Okay so we got through the weekend with Dick Cheney at the helm and we’re still here. (Or did some enterprising Colonel fix the Go Code and ...

Or maybe the question of the day should be what kind of omen is a pink dolphin? The secret word is Owl

WASHINGTON - President Bush will have a colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand presidential powers to Vice President Dick ...

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Big yup. Definitely. Sure as shit, Sherlock, CA is irredeemably in the crapper. It’s all those little green immigrants coming out of the cra...

I’ve come up with another of those sites where you can listen to free samples of the music we’ve labored on all these years. In this instanc...

…while I’m catching up on the backlog of stuff that remains after being deprived of internet access for almost five days, despite...

This week, LA CityBeat has a marijuana issue and I contributed a catalogue of lies . (And also do some sparring on the letters page, and pre...

Thanks to Doug the Bass for reminding me the that John Coltrane died forty years ago today.

WELL MAYBE NOT, BUT THE DOC40 MODEM BLEW ITSELF OUT ON SATURDAY MORNING. IT TOOK UNTIL NOW TO GET A REPAIR MAN FROM THE MIGHTY TIME WARNER. ...