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"Werrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" The secret word is Liquefy

As pandas are saved from the Chinese Chinese mega-quake, it might raise the ethical question of whether we first save Pandas or humans, but ...

For Hillary Clinton to blurt out these now notorious words on camera in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that inevitably linked Barack Obama, Bobb...

A car dealership in Butler, Missouri is offering a free handgun with every vehicle sold. The car lot in question, Max Motors, says sales hav...

At Doc40 we can’t go for more than a month or so without posting a picture of Marilyn Monroe. This one of her when amazingly young is from ...

HCB send over the following facts (or maybe trivia) about the late lamented Johnny Cash… Fact 1 Johnny Cash was the first American to learn ...

VOTE NO ON PROP 98! ***(Yes on Prop 99)*** Vote on Tuesday, June 3rd THIS IS IMPORTANT! It's just a minor primary election that normally...

Religious true believers have always claimed Albert Einstein as their own, largely because of the famous quote, "God does not play dice...

“We’re fleas, not ants. But we look real menacing and you’ve yet to discover what we have planned.” Uncle Bill Burroughs always warned us ho...

In this week’s LA CityBeat I have a reflection on how the image of Che Guevara (perhaps as a symbol of global resistance) is still potent af...

Elf Hellion sent over the following, and it makes me very happy that the Catholic church is okay with aliens. But I worry somewhat that an u...

“I mean, wouldn’t you want to see a woman president?” But Bob said nothing. And if you’re wondering why Doc40 hasn’t joined the ...

This is a book. Buy it! In the Renquist Quartet – my four-novel cycle centered around the character Victor Renquist , the debonair, erudite,...

“Morphic resonance is a term coined by Rupert Sheldrake in his 1981 book A New Science of Life. He uses the expression to refer to what he t...

“I have had quite enough of all this nonsense about lipstick in space. There is only one place for lipstick.”

A few years ago, I started working on a compilation CD project that was intended to showcase the best and most bestial bands that came out ...

And while we’re all stroking our egos, Suzy from Bomp forwarded the following from a character called Snogsdog. “It was when I heard Mick Fa...

IS THIS THE END OF BORDERS? The following commentary about Borders -- the US uber-bookstore -- came from our good friend Alan Beatts, who, a...

ONE BIG UNION!

"What’s the ugliest part of your body? What’s the ugliest part of your body? Some say you nose, Some say your toes, But I think it’s yo...

“We definitely don’t wear lipstick. We leave that to the skinjobs.” Aeswiren sent us the following rumination before I took my recent enforc...

I guess the secret word would have to be Suspended

An easy Sunday. Nothing too strenuous.

"You're soft, you should have let 'em kill me, 'cause I'm gonna kill you. I'll catch up with ya. I don't know w...

“All I wear in space is lipstick, pasties, a bubble helmet, and a plastic bag.” (Send by Valerie against her better judgment.

The secret word is Microgram

Last week he had the dubious sex movies of Marilyn Monroe supposedly blowing some unseen male – possibly a dead Kennedy. This week we have ...

As the news filters out about how “DC Madame” Deborah Jeane Palfrey hung herself at her mom’s house in Florida, I can’t stop the nagging dou...

(Thanks Munz) Albert Hoffman died at 102. Another young life cut short by psychedelic drugs.

“2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, 103, 107, 109, 113.”

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided he wants to "send a message" to youngsters that smoking reefer "unacceptable...

“The lady below is totally correct. No one goes into space without lipstick.”

It was, of course, a tune by the 1960’s band Tomorrow (for whom the dubious Twink played drums) but, much more important it was a sc...

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“In space we always wear lipstick.”

I still have not martialed my thoughts about the world wide food riots. All I can say is that it’s just another scene from the science ficti...

Our good friend Yukiko writes… “Mishima wrote that the truth lies not in the sultry end of a mystic labyrinth sailing up a tropical river, b...

Doc40 fans gather, overjoyed that, after his recent lapse, the Old Doc is back on the blog. They can’t wait to see how he’s going to react t...

The poster sucked, the film sucked, but the credits by Saul Bass (with the cats) were truly fucking amazing for the 1962 movie “Walk On The ...

Agent 00Soul has sent over this very comprehensive site from which you can download Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour . It may actually stay...

“I'm askin' ya, where's that squealin' son of yours? [weird laugh] You think a squealer can get away from me? Huh? [crazy la...

People have been emailing me saying that Nick Cave has copped my semi-spoken vocal style for his new “ Dig, Lazarus, Dig ”. Me? I kinda a do...

“Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suff...

Sorry for all the missing time, my friends. I’d like to say I was abducted by aliens, and give you all the intimate information on the appli...