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… paranoid? (Scattered thoughts for Friday 13th) Pic lifted from Tom Sutpen. People have more than once made me aware that I am supposedly ...

The Doc has been in the deep space of hellhound recall and failing life support. (Only in the Age of Bush could one be constantly overworked...

On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol (and also art critic Mario Amaya). Solanas was arrested the day after the assault. By way ...

CALIFORNIA VOTE NO ON PROP 98!

MrMR sent the image and our pal Tim Stegall pays his tribute .

So many epitaphs as the shadows lengthen. I grew up on Bo. The beat fascinated me in the way that it took no prisoners. It was always there,...

Right now I can hardly sum up how much he meant to me. The secret word is Time

It’s only Sunday morning and Valerie has sent the above and the suggestion that Marilyn was not in fact murdered, but abducted by a retro-UF...

It's getting weird out there.

Our good pal Steve sent this video clip from the BBC that provides an amazing insight into the levels of paranoia which the British Governme...

“The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing i...

“Fortunately Bob Dylan, unlike like Johnny Cash, was too busy reinventing rock & roll to appear.” (Yes, Farren has been busy wr...

Sydney Pollack -- RIP

“Never send a dog to do a narc’s work.” Officials admit that an unwitting passenger arriving at Japan's Narita airport unknowingly walke...

"When peace comes (if ever) you won't be able to smoke any fucking place."

Which would be to force George Bush and his grasping cronies to pay veterans and their families, and the serving troops for that matter, dec...

I, for one, are damned glad we’re back on Mars. Space is, of course, (as Sun Ra once put it) the place. Admittedly I’d be a whole lot happie...

"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...