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David DiGiannantonio played the title role in the eighteen-some months of the New York off-off-Broadway run of The Last Words of Dutch Schul...

Our good pal UK Steve has sent us this crucial item about how you tell a speedfreak snail from a regular snail. “In a develop...

Then Mickey scored the Peppo (And this is, of course, a shameless plug for my book Speed-Speed-Speedfreak that will be out at the e...

Click here for Fire Maidens of Outer Space (supplied by Valerie, who is in our thoughts.)

The industrial action by the freelance writers and photographers at Mojo magazine against new and onerous contracts offered by the owners, ...

Munz sent us this warning. Modern protesters could wind up as deaf as Pete Townshend. "Riotous protesters marching at the ...

This image was supplied by our very good friend Valerie who has been sending images and stories to Doc40 every since we ha...

As regular readers will know I have a long and checkered relationship with the combo know as the Pink Fairies, as a consigliere,...

From an ad for an Italian fashion store. Click here for David

("Thank you. Thank you very much.")

Firello Frozdick was dedicated to his art. Art was a little more ambiguous about the relationship.

My longtime friend and writing partner Andy Colquhoun has a new instrumental track titled “Back In The Day” up on YouTube. Clic...

“Andy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”

As I make my way to the computer to try to write what I hope to hell is the best and most ingenious, maybe the most igneous, and ceratinly t...

After a half century, the bloody shelters and the cowering bunker cult are back. Not this time for nuclear fallout but for ter...

Anything to lighten the miasma.

After a couple of days in limbo, Doc40 is back. I haven’t joined the ghost riders in the sky and all is about as functional as ...

…and I must return to the slaughterhouse amusement parks of the mind and re-enthrall myself with the torture of the chair at the c...

As the Thai government sends in tanks to crush all protest, we can only reflect that this isn’t really some far-off, far-flung a...

Reality is invasive and Doc40 is a little truncated today. Click here for Jerry Lee

As capitalism kills the Gulf of Mexico, a generation of kids in Texas are being condemned to remain in bigoted ignorance. “C...

As Arizona attempts to become the primary racist police state in the Union, it emerges that it’s just part of a long and ignoble ...

“Is this ridiculous shit ever going to stop?”

Little Annabel Frozdick was an early victim of the evil penguins.

Our pal Chris Hedges doesn’t mince words. “Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred di...

Arcata is a cute coastal town in the Northern California redwoods. With a large boho population, Arcata knows plenty about...

Today we found moths in the grits. Until today I’d hardly remembered a packet of grits lurked in the back of a kitchen cupboar...

Lately of a Sunday I have made a habit of watching the Showtime drama series The Tudors in which Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays a ne...

“If this was China a bunch of BP execs would have been dragged out of their boardroom and shot in the back of the head, execu...

Cartoon supplied by MrMR

Click here for Patti

Two days ago, we posted a link to the attack ads being run by the absurd Tim James who seems to think that you have to believe the nonsense ...

I never liked the comic strip Little Orphan Annie mainly because Harold Grey was a highly reactionary FDR-hater and defender o...

Just the book for that Louisiana weekend at the beach. (But click here for Dr. John and hope to start the mojo rising.)

When Amanda “Leather” Frozdick married her robot, the nuptials were not well attended.

Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, click here . And click h...

Ever since I’ve been able to read, I’ve avoided medical books like the plague. I only had to read the symptoms of a disease to...

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