Doc 40

Like Edna O’Brien already told us, August is a wicked month. It killed Elvis Presley, 31 years ago. And today he is a one dollar coin, and a...

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The active remembrance of Elvis past has schismed into two distinct camps. The more positive remember the young Elvis and celebrate him on h...

The secret word is Entropy

Patti Smith delivered the following during a recent performance of Rock and Roll Nigger in San Francisco. (Sent by Munz) 'To be outside ...

Today is Doc Holliday’s birthday. Had he lived, John Henry Holliday would have been 157. Doc was my favorite western gunfighter. The Thomas ...

Doc Holliday is one of the primary characters in Jim Morrison’s Adventures In The After Life , one my best and favorite pieces of fiction, a...

Maybe worse than the fear of possible FEMA helltrains and high apocalyptic totalitarian paranoia is the ongoing reality of being nickeled an...

This blog offers no explanations

Down from the wall of Lost Jimmy. (Thanks, pal.) The secret word is Everywhere

To borrow a phrase from Edna O’Brien, “August is a wicked month.” And perhaps, for one of my mindset, today might be the wickedest day. I th...

Fortunately the Perseid meteor shower is still in full swing and visible to all but we in the starless cities. In the pic from Valeri...

Some you may have noticed that I become uncomfortable when the Doc40 comments number thirteen. I have no idea when or how it started. There ...

L to r Michael English, Nigel Weymouth, and Guy Stevens (who would later produce London Calling for The Clash) The follow item from Fortea...

"Seems like old times." The coded message is 54686520446f633430206465636f646572207269 6e6773206d617920676f20696e...

ISAAC HAYES -- RIP

Here at Doc40 we have an incurable habit of posting pictures of Marilyn Monroe. Usually these post are a happy events, but this one is so lo...

Picture lifted from Bedazzled. The secret word is Intoxicant

“You may be seeing me sooner than you think.” I’ve always had the uneasy feeling that, when it came to the unthinkable, ultimate showdown, n...

While not one but maybe two wars seem in the making, the cable news channels have scarcely mentioned either, focusing instead on John Edward...

"Are you a tough guy or just a pussy with a pistol?" The atmosphere was one of danger, imminent but less than clear.

I still have a vestigial tendency to scoff at FEMA death camp fear, but this historic clip from the San Francisco Chronicle was sent by our...

Now play Guns Of Brixton by The Clash

But just suppose we are all going to be rounded up and put in camps, who would be the first to disappear? Who are deemed the most su...

"Ain't it just, comrades."

The following disturbing tale comes from the excellent Prison Planet website and was sent by Kass. “Amazing revelations have emerged concern...

A large object with a turquoise hue plummeted out of the sky and plowed into the earth south of Las Vegas. Eyewitnesses say this was no mete...

The secret words are Sweet and Sour

“More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop t...

“Hi there, I’m David, Hi there, I’m Bill Performing to you people Would give us such a thrill.”

A feasibility study is now being conducted regarding the manufacture and distribution of the Doc40 Secret Decoder Ring . It’s also high time...

"I have outlived my dick." (supplied by Munz)

I think this early picture of Elvis was one of the elements that convinced me as a youth that it would be pretty fucking cool to be Elvis. O...

These are your first words in Turkish

For a very long time I have wanted there to be a Doc40 Secret Decoder Ring as merchandise and a prize, and for fun and insurrection. Now it...

Bananas contain beneficial quantities of potassium.

“I’m walkin’ here! I’m walkin’ here!” So click here . (sent by Munz)

( This true confession is triggered by comments on yesterday’s post Amazing Ego) Back in 1969/70 after I had split from the original Devian...

The Shuttle Challenger is struck by lightning on the launch pad. ( Both today’s pics send by Valerie .)

The psychedelic website Trip Inside This House has some incredibly nice things to say about me. Just click to check them out.

The following email arrived from our pal Iggy who is clearly less than happy about the State of the Nation. I’m keeping my peace and will wa...

I know that a man can't give his address out to bad company, or his phone number for that matter, but if you’re a personal friend and fe...

It wasn’t much of an earthquake, although it’s been a while since we had one. (The above picture is, alas, from a movie.) The motion felt li...

Thanks to Iggy I have a whole new set of perspectives to choose from regarding the Zapruder film and how the version that we see today may w...

Abraham Zapruder's Bell & Howell Zoomatic movie camera

Maggie Gyllenhaal has been the subject of so many hundreds of Doc40 search engine hits it seems close to churlish not to post this pic of Ma...