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CANNIBAL UPDATE If you look in the Doc 40 archives for Monday December 8th, you’ll find the story of Armin Meiwes, the 42-year-old Germa...

THE SOUND OF ONE MIND BOGGLING Over on the comments board a discussion has been triggered by Jett (when you’re a Jett, you’re a Jett all...

ANOTHER STUPID AND REALLY DANGEROUS IDEA A story in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune can hardly be anything but cause for new levels of conce...

THE GASPS OF DEMOCRACY In the snow and bitter weather of icy New Hampshire, the alleged deciding of our fate continues with a wide-margi...

OUT OF THE RISING SUN Yesterday I did an interview for a Japanese rock magazine called Quest , which took up most of my afternoon and th...

DENY EVERYTHING, BUT ONLY WHEN BUSTED The following quote comes from no less than yesterday’s New York Times. “If we were a true emp...

POETRY ON SUNDAY The idea of posting poetry on Doc40 has been a question that I’ve recently mulled to only partial avail. Should I? Shou...

SQUIRM, YOU FAT BASTARD Isn’t it fun watching radio-tubby fascist talk-pundit Rush Limbaugh’s porcine wriggles and squeals as he tries t...

SPACE IS THE PLACE For your appreciation, my analysis of George Bush’s speech of last week on his plans for Mars and the moon appears in...

FINGERS CROSSED Thanks to the mighty Rich Deakin, the comments board (the tiny link over on the top right of the page) seems now to be w...

GET RIGHT WITH GOD According to MSNBC an Israeli rabbi has written a prayer for devout Jews to overcome their guilt after visiting a por...

WINSTON CHURCHILL’S PARROT SAYS HELLO (HELLO) No rants today. Spent the day at VH1 being a talking head. (Don’t ask, we all like to be o...

THE REBEL STAND “What are you rebelling against, Johnny?” “What’ve you got?” – Dialogue from The Wild One Last Saturday I halted mys...

FROM THE EMAIL QM II -- Yukiko writes from Tokyo Your post about the Queen Mary II (see Jan 15 '04) – I also noted the news, but ...

A SUNDAY KIND OF BLOG Maybe, instead of doing the Sunday paper crossword and laying in the warmth of a winter bed, eating toast and marm...

SATURDAY MORNING, SATURDAY MORNING I was going to get off on some rant about Al Franken being signed to spearhead the progressive radio ...

SANTA MARIA! Ever had one of those days when it seems that the walls of the world were closing in, and you feel that maybe the human rac...

TECHNOLOGY MARCHES ON The Doc 40 comment system has just been put in place, courtesy of the excellent Rich Deakin who pilots the Funtopi...

THE BIG SHIP SAIL$ ( Is that an iceberg or are you just pleased to see me ?) Yesterday, on Entertainment Tonight , I watched the massi...

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S 122 YEARS OLD The following post comes from the desktop of critic, picker, and raconteur Henry Cabot Beck. It should...

IS O’NEILL THE REAL DEAL? Paul O’Neill’s current inside revelations about the Bush White house, and his description of a GWB cabinet meet...

FROM THE EMAIL Jay Babcock of the excellent Arthur magazine writes (and, if his thesis is correct, what an improvement that would be.) ...

HEY, COOL! Wandering around the ether, as I have been wont to do since I came late to this weblogging business, I just discovered Tom Tom...

FUTURISM Yesterday’s post about the Bush space plan, that seems to be getting the shit promoted out of it in the Sunday media, started me...

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...