Doc 40

Happy Fourth of July to all our American comrades as they recall their revolution. Rockets, ribs, hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night a...

My response to the news was one of profane bafflement. Palin is resigning as Governor of Alaska? Say what? If anything, it was even weirder ...

This is Al Franken. I never liked Al Franken. An asshole. A tiresome wizeass blowhard. On the original SNL he was never as funny as he thou...

In Washington the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill. It was flawed to the point of being dismissed by many en...

“So how much cholesterol do you figure there is in rattlesnake?"

Those where days, my friends. When Kellogg dusted their cereals with amphetamine and moms were happy all day and docile. Just ask Lucy Jorda...

For some time now I’ve suffered from this unfocused fear that, here in the new 21st century depression, it all looked too...

In a frozen photographic moment a young woman glows, and high on the nobility of her cause, prepares to turn back the fascists....

I gotta tell you, neighbours, I like a good crop circle circle as well as the next humanoid. (So much so I'll risk repeating myself. Scr...

Some of you will just want to revisit the B. Kliban classic while others may need the essential information. (And on the subject ...

Cousin Zenobia and Cousin Sioban exercise their duckies.

(And those long-gone days when freaks were freaks, gay straight, stoned, or just plain confused.)

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the spontaneous uprising by street punk gays during a raid by the NYPD Public Morals Squad on the St...

So – while thanking the deities it’s Friday – we wait to see what exactly the coroner decides laid Michael Jackson low, try to imagine what ...

The secret word is Footsy

MICHAEL JACKSON – RIP FARRAH FAWCETT – RIP SKY SAXON – RIP

Our great and magnificent friend, Boss Goodman, is back in the hospital. Seemingly he’s doing okay, but our thoughts and hopes are with h...

The delightful Valerie sent us this tale of mindless feline violence, but we have not allowed Finn to read it… “You don't want to mess w...

In which Marilyn, heavily disguised, disgusted with the status quo, fleeing the Dionysian anarchy, and carrying her own hat, also leaves the...

This picture from 1973 is pure ego, but it kinda symbolizes one of the major problems of the 1960’s counterculture that has most recently su...

The rest of the family were never comfortable around Mandrake and Lothar. And Penny was only tolerated as the lone Frozdick penguin.

The following disturbing tale was sent over by MrMR… “It’s a plot better suited for a John Le Carre novel. Two Japanese men are detained in ...

“Rumors circulate that Farren is becoming concerned about his health. That would be sooo tedious. We only liked him for his recklessness.”

The Rotwang M90 full body suit was always very suspect. And those who wore it even more so.

One might think this is nothing more than a 1930s girlie book with an anatomically implausible cover, but, if you look very carefully, it’s ...

Can one be a connoisseur of riots? I have been in one or two in my time, and, as the pictures come in of the theocracy clearing...

Without risking a total lapse of modesty, I think I can justly claim I lent a willing hand in the founding of the international weekly tabl...

Almost two years after the first plans were announced construction has finally begun in New Mexico on Spaceport America. The spaceport, whic...

“Very soon the world will wise up that there’s more to being a writer than merely owning a computer.”

Back in the 20th century, I spent the nights before a couple of major demonstrations in eerily quiet contemplation, wonderin...

While the world watches Iran, another conflict comes to a head in Peru where Indians have been protesting for two months against a series of...

Doc40 is back from journeying around the far-flung limits and safe back home. I was hoping for a little time to rest up, take stock, and mak...

The following furious letter comes from our angry pal Elf Hellion… URGENT – Help stop the murder for money scheme of California Gov ...

Well, my dears, I'm glad to say that Barad Dur proved as warm and welcoming as ever, and the Hank Williams records are ...

"Wish you were here!"

Still on the road, Munz sent this to a prearranged pit-stop. Click here to hear Buddy Holly being screwed by his record label live on the ph...

This series has been shamelessly neglected during the protracted Doc40 road trip, but when Valerie came up with this rare example of the XM9...

Outside the roadtrip capsule, they are remembering D-Day. Not only does the destruction of Nazism pose a problem for anyone basically oppose...

Since I’ve never been exactly in the habit of taking vacations – I always figured, to do that, one had to be gainfully employed in the first...