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This article originally ran in the April 30, 1974 issue of the Boston Phoenix . Seems that back in the day, old super-conserative...

Here on Doc40, we just love dark matter, so how could we not run with this? NASA sez... “For the first time, astronomer...

Actually it isn’t. It’s called the Datamancer. And damn do I want one. And, for those who are interested, the new novel – Renquist V – is c...

But it won’t have the logo on the side. This cautionary tale was supplied by our good-buddy Faux Smoke. “Once you combine all-s...

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CLICK – (It’s everywhere)

Last week I was complaining about Buddy Holly being used in TV commercials. I lifted this story from our pal Richard Metzger a...

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Kools?

Over the last few days, there have been moments when I felt like I should reengage with the troubles of the world and especiall...

Enrico Frozdick took no chances with radiation.

Just more proof that we’re living out a science fiction scenario. But does it have to be by J.G. Ballard? "In a list of t...

Their rationale is as follows… “It would be fine to note that you were informed by Facebook that the image in question was no long...

It's "Creature" by Paul Madonna Click for some awesome Jimi

It’s "Silverfish" by Randy Regier. Click for the obvious Lemmy

One of those pieces of schoolboy/History Channel trivia that I seem to have retained is how the Hindenburg would never have blow...

Yes, my friends, it’s August. The Dog Days, the Silly Season. It’s a hundred fucking degrees outside. I may die, and I will def...

Last week we posted a link to Rachel Bloom’s unique video tribute to Ray Bradbury on his 90th birthday. This photo purports to ...

Our pal Elf Hellion sent us this story of an evil Swan. “An aggressive swan known as “Hissing Sid” has been evicted from his riv...

Frank Frazetta’s 1978 take on Battlestar Galactica Click he re for Robinson Crusoe on Mars

I won’t be going to any cinema to see Piranha 3D . Of that I’m certain. I haven’t been too interested in fish-threat films since Quint was a...

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Here’s one of those handy nuggets of data that I keep getting from the guys at Delancey Place, so I can keep on keeping up my fur...

Last week the www wondered if the early Beatles were speeded up. Now the discussion is centered around if this is really a recor...

And be a pirate!

When eggs turn evil who has been minding the chickens? “Jack DeCoster, the owner of the company at the center of one of the larg...

“Smoke if you got ‘em.”

Thurman Frozdick joined the Secret Six, who believed they had discovered the secret of Vrill.

I blink and wonder what shenanigans these cyberfreaks will get up to next. "An erotic chess video game? Set in a post-apocalyp...

So everything is new again.

It was always a fond and favorite scenario among us anarchists of the psychedelic left. Dump a mind-melting quantity of LSD-25...

Nobody told me, but last night, the planet Neptune was in perfect opposition, a straight line could be drawn from it right...

At regular intervals, as I amble through the hours, I hear Buddy Holly singing “Everyday”, and I feel happy because it co...

From Valerie

“But, mama, the saucer people always bring me back.” Yesterday we had Elvis singing the word “motherfucker.” Today we have t...

Goddamn BP are even buying TV time and running sanctimonious commercials that attempt to claim the worse of oil has gone and all i...

Or maybe drive you crazy. Click here .

And what, we wonder, is taking place in the background?

Many years ago, I drove with Wayne Kramer from Detroit to St. Louis because Wayne was getting paid to do a guest spot on ...

In a few days, Ray Bradbury will celebrate his 90th birthday. So do yourself a favor, click here for a most surprising tribute to the vener...

The project was terminated after Sam Frozdick and his partner Norman were beaten to death by their own malfunctioning robot.

The way that the medical profession avoided the therapeutic use of psychedelics because of what’s referred to below as “negativ...

Discussion has broken out on the interwebs about how early Beatles recordings may have been deliberately speeded up to increase im...

Here at Doc40 we are huge fans of Simon’s cat, and were thus delighted when Valerie sent us one we hadn’t seen before. Click he...