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When I received this Chinese story about British boozing from our good friend Aeswiren, it confirmed an impression I had gleaned for myself ...

James Nicholls, writing in History Today, reminds us… "In Britain, concerns over drunkenness go back a long way. The first Licensing A...

“Let the Brits drink for chrissakes. They have to talk with that ridiculous accent all the time.”

I can only post this without comment. “My New Pink Button is a temporary dye to restore the youthful pink color back to your ...

Here at Doc40 we always celebrate the birthday of Elvis Presley. Why? I have told it too many times to repeat how Elvis quite literally chan...

The Frozdick Folk Dancers preform their Ode to Elvis

As we face the farcically unpleasant prospect of a full body x-rays every time we have to get on an already less than human-fr...

Our pals Mother and Doctor at the Bangalore Film Society have sent this informative if idiocentric account by Alejandro Jodorow...

Due to my getting sick, about five copies of Zone of Chaos have not gone out to the folks who mailed in for the them. Don’t worry. It’s bein...

You can call me an unreconstructed old hippie but, damn, I like this and I want some. (It's a shame the picture isn't bigger.) ...

On December 19th I wrote “round here we run a kind of ad hoc Doc Holliday Fan Club” and our pal David TA took me at my word and sent the f...

Our pal Wendy sent us this urgent communication… “Oklahoma recently passed a law requiring that abortion providers fill out a 10-page ques...

Without the knowledge of Junie and Joanie, Sister Lubyanka Frozdick had developed personal armor against the Radium Gun.

Superman may still be able to jump them in a single bound, but our pal Aeswiren – in honor of today’s opening of the Burj Dubai – has sent u...

A species of prehistoric super-intelligent hominids who, despite their superior brains, were unable to survive? HCB sent us th...

Cap and Bucky had a quite tempestuous relationship.

The coming year and the coming decade are clearly going to be a challenge of the most major kind, and I suspect that many of ...

The secret word is still Hope

As I recover from whatever laid me low, the Dark Matter is back… “Deep inside an abandoned iron mine in northern Minnesota, physicists may h...

The following food for cynicism comes from Delancey Place. "In the terrain of the human heart, scientists tell us, at least three in...

Elf Hellion sent me this highly complimentary link… “One of the most influential bands of the English Underground were Mick Farren and the ...

Junie and Joanie Frozdick had perfected the Radium Gun. (Image lifted from Tom Sutpen .)

I seem to have gone down with some nasty but scarcely life-threatening virus. With luck all will be back to normal in a day o...

But I don't have the strength to panic.

But how would they mix with gin he asks from his sickbed?

Doc40 hopes everyone has a roaring Yule! The secret word is Light (Thanks for the image, Iggy)

Click here . Trust me.

Round here we run a kind of ad hoc Doc Holliday Fan Club, and thus, when HCB sent over this news flash, I had to pause in my weekend ...

Cody Jarrett says. “That’s right. Warned.”

Doc40 may prove a bit sparse this weekend. I have a major project to finish, plus the Yuletide disconnects are starting to kick ...

Klondike Barbie salutes the receding Alaskan coastline. “Isn’t Russia getting further away, by golly?” (Image lifted from Dangerous...

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Important news comes from the world of Victorian literature. "What would Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland be wi...

The Frozdick Search Engine was never able to outperform Google.

John Dillinger died for our sins.

Protect those scantily clad minxes! (Thank you, Valerie)

I have no desire to hear what a woman as stupid as Sarah Palin has to say about the environment, but my TV thinks I do. The smoke is blowing...

I was never a big consumer of Oreos. I needed more of a chocolate jolt. Let’s talk Three Musketeers. In the world of sweeties, I...

Who are these women and who is the guy bowing?

Do you remember the scene in 1984 when Winston Smith’s neighbour declares the nameless pink stuff that hardly pretends to be meat and is ser...

“When did you last watch a cool Thomas Pynchon promo-video?” Or have I run this before? It’s one of those winter sunset timewarps. Click ...

Click here for something somewhat disturbing with cartoon reindeer. Click here for something somewhat disturbing with yelling and violenc...

Late last night HCB and I were exchanging emails (as in our wont.) The topic in this instance was Chuck Berry. H was concerned with inaccura...

Yesterday we talked about how drug money has taken over the Mexican economy. Now our buddy Bernard sends this story about how it...