Doc 40

As the Turkey weekend laboriously grinds on, I do my best to write, sleep, and ignore it since, apart from having no need for any public dis...

Pic from Gorightly The secret words are Lone Gunman

But we also have these unspeakable mechanisms , already the last thing seen (or not seen) by thousands of our fellow humans. The secret word...

Back in the day, The Monks somehow passed me by. I can only plead the “I can’t be clued in on everything” defense. Over the years, though, t...

You wanna see some Möbius transformations ? Me? I just smoked a joint and stared at the sequence like an unreconstructed hippie, but, if you...

This blog does not respect authority.

“Please wash your hands after engaging in pain management.” This theory that sexual fantasy may be a method to reduce pain is hardly new, da...

Or, I suppose, if the pain got too bad, one could try knitting a Dalek. Click here for the pattern . The secret word is Exterminate

The following report comes from HCB – “Fox News was on the television with the sound off and in the close captioning, I noticed that when Bi...

“It says here that the global environment is totally fucked.” "That's nice, dear." Doug the Bass sent over this fascinating...

Since at least the 1970s we have watched the reduction and disempowerment of organized labor in the West, and with it the destruction of one...

“Will she ever stop haunting my dreams? And do I want her to?”

Yes, it’s an old joke. But I’m seriously starting to wonder if there’s anything funny about George W. fucking Bush, and wh...

Valerie reminds us the Leonid meteor shower hits tonight. (And who knows, we may all go blind and the triffids will eat us.) Sadly they are ...

I was grounded in too much science fiction as a lad to seriously believe in signs in the sky or astronomical portents, (black dogs are more ...

“I think I’d like to be a space pirate when I grow up.”

In today’s LA CityBeat , I expressed some of my doubts about the writer’s strike… “While I won’t lower the red flag or hang-up my IWW T-shir...

“My mission is far from accomplished. Assimilation is not yet complete. ”

This may strike newer readers as odd but it has a provenance. I wrote the paragraph below when I was quite paranormally spooked on New Year’...

(Dogs from Valerie and Elizabeth)

As part of the celebrations for Amy Wallace and Handsome Dick Manitoba’s The Official Punk Book of Lists , Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun ,...

Today, I took Veterans Day off (see Sunday 11/4) and spent it in bed. Even now I’ve risen I find myself falling asleep in front of a TV that...

“I’m sorry Dorothy. Under no circumstances are you going back to Kansas.”

Is there such a thing as political nostalgia? Looking back over the century so far, I wonder about how much we have been forced to hold the ...

Your humble host on TV during the previous revolution.

"The HAL 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are...

NORMAN MAILER – RIP And here’s something of a tribute . (Via Noudela) I intend to post more later, but I didn’t want to wait on this. ...

“Hell, what do I know. I’ve been dead thirty years and still sell records.” Kass sent over this report. It does, however, emanate from Fox N...

This story from Scientific American makes for extremely dire reading… “Since 1987 annual emissions of carbon dioxide—the leading greenhouse ...

Yesterday on his MSNBC show Countdown Keith Olbermann delivered what he called a “special commentary” accusing George Bush of now only bein...

“My pets will protect me.”

Yesterday I wanted a day off. Maybe it’s now just a variation on Monday madness, but I find myself looking a pieces of what would appear to ...

And I also miss Guy Fawkes Night, (and wondering if we celebrated him because he failed to blow up Parliament and King James I, or because h...

It seems like I’ve been staring at this computer since at least the pre-Cambrian period – or perhaps last Tuesday – but even though nuke-pac...

Now we have a degree of confusion (see yesterday’s comments) about what fire photographs were taken when and by whom, I will simply le...

“Errors in Doc40 will not be tolerated, and, since they undermine your other arguments, the penalties must, by simple logic, be cruel and un...

There really is nothing else I can say except listen to Saturn! (apart from to thank Valerie for sending it.) I love this stuff! It rocks! ...

Doug the Bass sent over this pic by Nick in Rancho Santa Fe of deer taking refuge in what looks like a foot or so of water. If so inc...

The Interplanetary Space Fleet endorses this site. (But not to such a degree as to get me off this godforsaken planet.)

This short film by Max Blumenthal was shot at the recent Value Voters Summit. (Just scroll down a little and activate.) It sounds like a sup...

Stolen from deviantART

“You’re a bloody fool, Slobodan. I told you to morph into a bat.” And here is a gravely seasonal and 100% factual anecdote from Sky… Serbian...

I don’t know if onanistic perversion and undergarment theft qualifies as a Halloween preoccupation, and the song Arnold Layne is hardly as c...

When Paul Marsh and I were in art school we both thought Brigitte Bardot was the most glorious woman on the cool green Eart...