THE WEIRD TWINS OF CÂNDIDO GODÓI

Geneticists have no solid explanation for why this small town in southern Brazil is home to 38 pairs of twins among about 80 families living in a one-and-a-half-square-mile area. The mystery has persisted for decades. Some claim it’s the result of an unknown mineral in the town’s water, while other researchers suggest a darker possibility. Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi physician known as the Angel of Death, and who had a morbid fixation on twins roamed this region of southern Brazil, posing as a veterinarian, in the 1960s, about the time the twins explosion began. An Argentine journalist, Jorge Camarasa, has suggested that Mengele conducted experiments that resulted in the higher rate of twins, many of them with blond hair and light-colored eyes. The experiments, locals said, may have involved new types of drugs and preparations, or even the artificial insemination. (Click here for more.)

The secret word is Whaaaat?

"I used to be the Lone Ranger."

(Pic sent by HCB)

THEY DON'T STAGE SHOWS LIKE THIS ANY MORE #14

ELVIS SLAPS SHEREE

Two days ago, the subject of movie star Sheree Noth came up, (see last Wednesday’s comments) which, in turn, caused me to happen across this very odd still of Elvis slapping Sheree from the movie The Trouble With Girls. I’ve (mercifully) never seen The Trouble With Girls, so I don’t know the context, but when I saw the pic, I knew I was going to post it. It was such a bizarre (and also changed) punkoid artifact, and that’s the way the demon rolls. I also decided that Doc40 readers were big enough and blasé enough to handle it, but, before I pushed the button, I would agonize for a pointless period about that cultural correctness of so doing. Would this do harm? What fall-out would result if I ran and how I’d feel if I censored myself? In the end, the only answer was “fuck it” and click “post.”

The secret word is Conflict

GREAT MOMENTS IN PARANORMAL HISTORY

November 20, 1952 – George Adamski meets Orthon from Venus.

Philip Jose Farmer – RIP

WATER ON MARS?

The following fascination was lifted from our pal Iggy…

“Strange globs seen on the landing strut of the Phoenix Mars lander could be the first proof that modern Mars hosts liquid water, a new paper reports. Images from the robotic craft show what appear to be liquid droplets growing, merging, and dripping on the lander's leg over the course of a Martian month. Phoenix landed near Mars's north pole last May, and several "self portraits" taken to assess the craft's health show material spattered on the legs. This substance is probably saline mud that splashed up as the craft landed, study leader and Phoenix co-investigator Nilton Renno of the University of Michigan told National Geographic News. Salt in the mud then absorbed water vapor from the atmosphere, forming the watery drops, Renno said. The water can stay liquid even in the frigid Martian arctic because it contains a high amount of perchlorates, a salt "with properties like the antifreeze used to melt snow here in Michigan," said Renno, who will present the work next month at the 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.” Click for more.

SECRET?

The secret word is Encrypted

THIS MUST HAVE BEEN A VERY ODD MAGAZINE #4

I guess it was inevitable that the Marilyn would make the cover of Sir.

THE ADVENTURES OF MARILYN (Part lotr09)

In which Marilyn learns that motivating an Ent is easier said that done. The Dionysian High Command had decided in its drunken wisdom that the Ent in question was crucial to the assault on the Apollonian fortresses, but no one so much as knew it’s name, let alone how to enlist its aide, because the Ent in question hadn’t spoken in seventy-three years. Marilyn had been dispatched by her handlers to motivate the tree-creature with her goddess wiles, but she had her doubts. Pressing herself with total abandon against the rough, unyielding outer bark, she felt no response, and was at a loss to know if she and the Ent were in any way bio-compatible, even on the most basic and pedestrian level. Then, very slowly, something moved inside the Ent, and, rumbling low, from somewhere deep in its core, came what sounded like a creaking sigh. “Haaarooommm!”

(THE ADVENTURES OF MARILYN NOW HAS IT’S OWN PAGE SO THE WHOLE THING CAN BE READ WITHOUT SCROLLING. CLICK HERE)

WINSTON O'BOOGIE

MrMR just sent this amazing short film based on an interview with John Lennon. Click here.

The secret word is Onward

A MOVIE THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

When I saw this poster on “If Charlie Parker…” I had to reproduce it. I must have been about nine years old when I saw Destination Moon, with it’s George Pal special effects and Robert Heinlein story (and a cameo by Woody Woodpecker). It totally convinced me that I had to be an astronaut when I grew up. But did I achieve that goal? That’s a matter of perception. I’m fairly confident I advanced beyond the rank of Space Cadet.

The secret word is Ingnition

PROLETARIAT PINUP #7

Remember the words of Fidel, dear Comrades. “I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. I began the revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.”

BUT WE'RE REPUBLICANS

OUR WHACKY UNCLE BILL

Uncle Bill suspects he’s been channeled.

THIS REALLY WAS A STRANGE COMIC

Our pal Roldo sent over this amazing artifact. It’s a comic book created by Chris Welch, Chris Rowley, and me back around 1972. It was a luridly stoned precursor of The Road Warrior, and the premise was that an experimental psychotropic chemical weapon was accidently released which fried the human brain into horridly dysfunctional perma-trip mush. The only survivors were folk/freaks who’d had a previous psychedelic experience. (Yeah, we had fun back in the day.)

And by a weird synchronicity, I came into touch with Chris Welch yesterday while checking out Face Book. But I tell you about my Face Book adventures later. Right now I have much I want to write about and am summoning the energy (or maybe the entities) to do it.

The secret word is Crawling