Doc 40

TO THE MOON, GEORGE For the low end imagination, interplanetary travel is the old 1950s B-movie scenario of putting four or five grunts a...

FROM THE EMAIL Munz has sent me a link to the online edition of a magazine called While You Were Sleeping ( www.wyws.com ) which contains...

HAPPY ELVIS’ BIRTHDAY (Footnote) (Isn’t it fun how time runs backwards on these weblogs?) At 6.00PM (Pacific) I watched The Simpsons ...

HAPPY ELVIS’ BIRTHDAY That Elvis Presley had a profound effect on my young life is hardly a secret. I’ve written four books on the man. O...

DID YOU MISS ME? If indeed anyone is really reading this, I wonder how much I really need or want to reveal about my day to day doings in...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2004 and the 20th century recedes; Hiroshima, Treblinka, Eddie Cochran, Humphrey Bogart, and the Somme. But, to paraphras...

BIG GOOGLE IS WATCHING YOU I have been watching the advertisements at the top of this page with some interest, and have noted that they c...

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SERIOUS STUFF From the excellent fidicen, links to two first rate pieces by Renana Brooks on Bush, the character myth, cognitive dissona...

FROM THE EMAIL (Quite amazing) Hi Mick, Thought you might like the very literal machine (AI?) translation of the Flirt piece (see Sunday...

SUNDAY IN THE DARK WITH NO-ONE I guess in a combination of Sunday angst, the aftermath of so-far wretched holidays, the art avoiding art,...

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON GUV ARNOLD “Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, hither came Conan t...

Slumped in front of the Boxing Day TV, I just saw Joss Stone singing "It's A Man's World" for James Brown at the Kennedy C...

XMAS 2003 Got no sleigh with reindeer, No sack on my back You're gonna see me coming In a big black Cadillac -- Elvis Presl...

FROM THE EMAIL Hister 333 comments on “Beam Me Up” That was freaky. It got me thinking, what if it's like the 'net, and it...

QUOTE OF THE DAY (well...actually yesterday) "Why do they want to look at my medical records? They didn't look at Bill Clinton...

Kaymo the novelist replies to the previous post... Most likely it just an "excursion"-- a massive tongue of superheated core ma...

FILE UNDER “ONE MORE THING TO WORRY ABOUT” I have heard about this before on the websites and in the small press publications of the extr...

DON’T BEAM ME UP, QUITE YET. I have never been a big fan of the idea of being disassembled into my component sub-atomic particles, beamed...

AMONG THE CURRENT EMAIL Munz informs me that The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs: What Really Happened? by Uncle Bill Burroughs' long...

WHY A BLOG? Blog? You gotta a problem with that? Yeah, I’ve started to blog even though my dislike of the word kept me away from the whol...

Channel 2 has just told me that scientists have discovered a gene in worms that makes them pre-disposed to drunkenness. Of course, they didn...

The following clip comes from the desk of the mighty Henry Cabot Beck. I suppose we should be happy its all going on in Germany, and not in ...

“It’s the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing so hard to do.” -- Tony Kushner

Before the fact, I wrote a longish bit for LA CityBeat on Angels In America , but that was from the advance HBO DVDs. When I planted myself ...

I just watched Rev Al Sharpton sing "I Feel Good" on Saturday Night Live. Damn, but who would have thought it? He has a voice like...

THE DISGRUNTLED EMPLOYEE Mick Farren I HAVE AN AR15 AND FOUR BOXES OF TWO TWENTY THREE HIGH VELOCITY HOLLOW POINTS AND I HAVE QUITE ...

I have never felt totally comfortable with the anti-globalization movement. Obviously I support its aims of stopping the WTO and the IMF in ...

Let's never forget, Julius Caesar had the last word.

I’ve heard a great deal of gloom recently – relayed in no small part by the alternative press, who should know better – about how the Republ...

"I can only repeat what I've often written. The US, and the West generally, has become far more civilised in the past 40 years, tha...

And now feeling obligated to post something with some content, here's the lyric of a fabulous old tune... MAN THAT WATERS THE WORKERS...

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So, a new horizon of exploration? I stand mindless, but wait... Something takes shape within the swirling mist. (Voices off) -- "...