Doc 40

When Mark Haspan recently posted a comment noting an definite undertow of Mad magazine in the works of Doc40, I responded with a smile that ...

…as they say on the TV mail order commercials. Here’s some more of that fine Wally Wood art.

No matter how vehemently I resolve to never mention Klondike Barbie ever again, stuff keeps happening. I mean, here am I with a book chartin...

The wino on the bench insulted Uncle Bill’s new suit. Uncle Bill knocked his hat off and beat him mercilessly.

Here at Doc40, for reasons better not discussed, we always keep half an eye on Mattel and Barbie if only as a plastic bellwether of the time...

I have no other information but, if I’d been around, I’d probably have wound up working for it.

Finn is a new arrival at the Doc40 household. He is five months old, a trainee terrorist and quite a handful, and he came to me from...

…this is the only use left for your credit card.

A week ago today, I ran a picture of Elizabeth Taylor in Suddenly Last Summer for no really good reason except that it was there and I like...

As some of you already know I have a schoolboy weakness for the entire mythology of Nazi space exploration, secret bases, and the Flugelrad ...

"Happy birthday, Ludwig Van."

Yesterday we all had a good laugh when Muntadar al-Zeidi hurled his shoes at George Bush, and today some political activist sent me an email...

In which Marilyn, working as a fifth columnist for the Albert Hoffman Brigade of the Dionysian Red Legion, infiltrates the CAPCOM base of th...

We all seem to have heard about the Iraqi reporter who called George Bush a "dog" and threw his shoes at him earlier today. Our lo...

MrMR has once again clued us in… “ Have you ever wondered what all those extra SUVs are in the Presidential or VIP motorcades? You know, th...

After k2 posted his or her comment yesterday (see NO MONEY DOWN ) I Googled the Nucleon and this is what I found… “The Ford Nucleon was a nu...

“Did we finally reach Palookaville?”

…up market strip joints like Scores in New York close their doors and go belly up. Scores was once the up-market lap-dance emporium where Ho...

I guess what I really want from Detroit is a car that’s lightweight, non-polluting, made in a union shop, and looks just like this. Like Edd...

And it’s Liz posing unhappily on the beach in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer . I’d like to pretend I was so school-boy, hip-litera...

Who was eaten alive by the teen-boys he’d previously been debauching.

...and the style and the bells and whistles. Although we do have admit that we're suckers for the innocent simplicity and historical rom...

Uncle Bill enters by the exit to confuse those who are not paying attention.

This blog is sanctioned by Shiva.

The following came from our pal Faux Smoke. I have posted it in it's entirety. The links are hot. "So, out of bor...

Since the subject of Jim Morrison has once more come up, Munz alerted us to the following story… “George Morrison, 89, a retired Navy rear a...

In which Marilyn attempts to make conversation with the other guests at the banquet for assembled sentients. “What have they done to the Ear...

Alerts to this story came in from a number of sources… CHICAGO — Workers who got three days' notice their factory was shutting its doors...

“Oh my God! I seem to have given birth to a litter of puppies!” (And talking of litters, I’m agonizing over adopting a new feline friend. If...

MrMR delivered the bad news… “Bettie Page, a 1950s pinup known for her raven-haired bangs and saucy come-hither looks, was hospitalized in i...

Munz forwarded this note from Dale Gieringer of the Drug Policy Forum of California... “This Friday, Dec 5th, is a day to toast the 75th ann...

Uncle Bill, on a mission, is in hot pursuit!

As the heads of the Big Three auto companies beg the Senate Banking Committee for their bailout, the United Auto Workers express wil...

In which Marilyn accidently arrives in a new dimension, spots the magazine on a newsstand, and exclaims in horror. “Oh my god, I’ve already ...

On Sunday, I sat pensive at the computer when a short, sharp, physical shock shook the windows and rattled the walls of my apartment. ...

On another planet called Beverly Hills, just twenty minutes drive from the world that I inhabit, a woman called Constantina, w...

A thick, Hammer-Films fog here in Hollywood made Monday night’s unusual configuration of Venus, Jupiter and the Moon invisible from what the...

Newton, my cat and companion of almost twenty years, died peacefully in his sleep this morning just as the dawn was breaking. He was very...

Our pal Peromyscus sent over the following oddity… “With his dashing chiseled features, swept back hair and perky bouffant the resemblance i...

This is not, however, the first time I’ve come across this kind of thing. I remember claims that the famous statue “The Discus Thrower” by M...

In which Marilyn confronts the Inner Circle of the Secret Legion. She positions herself with her back to the fireplace, and with a picture o...

The link to this surprising and fascinating story was sent by EF… “Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijua...

Aeswiren brings us back from turkey euphoria with a dose of sobering reality. “Right now the gathering crisis of the honeybee is out...

Here at Doc40 things are moving kinda slow. Hence more pictures than profundity. But don't go away, y'hear? We'll start thinking...

Don't leave Earth without it. (lifed from Peromyscus ) The secret word is Exterminate

Despite all the manifold horror in the world, it is still Turkey Day in the USA and we will do what’s expected of us. Maybe the fact that we...