Doc 40

LATE NIGHT FINAL FOCUS In one of those moments of weary clarity, I had a final thought on the whole New Times business (see most of yesterda...

MILESTONE/MILLSTONE " U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, director of the force's combined press center, wrote in an e-mail to reporte...

POST SCRIPT (WHICH OF COURSE, IN THE BLOGOSPHERE, PRECEDES THE SCRIPT IT POSTS) It just occurred to me that maybe New Times is the alternati...

NEW TIMES/BAD TIMES Hell, I didn’t like it when underground became alternative... The news was out yesterday that the long rumored a merger ...

WEEKEND READIN' A whole lot of really interesting stuff has been coming down Doc40's pike in the last 48 hours with which to occupy ...

HAPPY 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR TO THOSE WHO KNOW WHAT THE HELL I’M TALKING ABOUT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_...

LAUGH OR FUCKING CRY Kaymo sent over the following that would have me rolling on the floor if this slick-suited sonofabitch wasn’t so hideou...

BEYOND THE WILDEST NIGHTMARE While still dealing more the usual crap that flesh is heir to, (maybe one day I’ll look back and laugh and tell...

WOKE UP THIS MORNING And the stress was waiting, tres beaucoup, but, while I cope and until I come back with more, check out this piece of n...

AN "I WISH I’D WRITTEN THAT" MOMENT In San Antonio they tell me that power and money are one They can buy us or sell you to keep y...

SINGLE THOUGHT ON A VERY SLOW SATURDAY After a week that left a quantum deal to be desired, I actually slept all day and, when I woke, the w...

PLEASE, SHUT THE FUCK UP Really, enough. In LA the temperatures once again push close to the 100F mark, the planet’s in the toilet, I don’t ...

AND NOW, A PICTURE OF OUR GLORIOUS LEADER... http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5812/438/1600/cthulhu1.jpg The secret word is Arkham

PUNK ISSUE Two new stories from your humble servant in today’s issue of LA CityBeat . The first is a erudite bit on the roots of punk (this ...

H5N1 This virus, also known as the Avian or Bird Flu has been all over the news today, and Doc40 the Uberparanoid really wants to know why. ...

SUPREME SACRIFICE If your mind boggles that our pal Georgie Bush, in the wake of the Michael Brown/FEMA scandal, is now appointing a lawer p...

IN THE MATTER OF PENGUINS I’ve had a whole bunch of other things on my mind of late so I really haven’t been paying much attention to who’s ...

AUGUST WILSON -- RIP

I see the comments board has reached all the sevens. Dunno what the Rastas will have to say about that. (Have much to say, especially abo...

REPUBLICANS SAY THE DARNEDEST THINGS ... " But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were you...

TURN UP THE SPEAKERS This comes from logicgrl and is well worth the effort... http://filmstripinternational.com

FIFTY YEARS Fifty years ago today James Dean died near Paso Robles as his Porsche Spyder poughed into Donald Turnupseed’s ragged Ford, and t...

GO FIGURE THIS ONE, PAT ROBERTSON While the Gulf Coast is under water, LA is now having a late September 100F heatwave, and Chatsworth (porn...

AIN’T RETRIBUTION SWEET? Could it be that House Majority Leader Tom Delay (the man I’ve always though of as Bush’s loudly born-again Martin ...

MEANWHILE, BACK IN SHINJUKU (With the right translation, nothing is ever lost) Kaoru extends his index finger and, almost without hesitation...

MAYBE I SHOULD JUST STOP WATCHING TELEVISION Of course, I won’t. In this week’s LA CityBeat I even have a riff on how TV news came through ...

SO NOW WHAT? As I watch, Rita turns into a level 5 and, while still recovering from my adventures in Tokyo, I wonder what the hell is going ...

OKAY SO IT’S TUESDAY... Just back from Tokyo Narita and boy are my arms tired (literally) – plus I guess a pun on the word "disorientat...

TODAY I FLY TO TOKYO FOR SOME READIN’ AND ROCKIN’ SO DOC 4O WILL FOR SILENT FOR PRECISELY A WEEK – UNLESS OF COURSE YOU HAPPEN TO BE AT THE ...

THE DOG DID NOT EAT GEORGE’S HOMEWORK, BUT, IF IT DID, IT’S REALLY THE FAULT OF HILLARY AND THE MEDIA Ben Stein is a piece of human redundan...

FALANGIST FUNNIES For a long time I have wished people would stop using the word conservative when they mean neo-Nazi psychopaths. The letha...

WHEN I FIND MYSELF QUOTING CHURCHILL TWICE IN 24 HOURS, I KNOW WE’RE IN TROUBLE " The responsibility of government for the public safet...

WINSTON CHURCHILL CALLED IT THE BLACK DOG. THE MOMENT OF BLEAK AND WEARY DEPRESSION WHEN IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE FIGHT IS ENDLESS. SELF-SATIS...

BEYOND ALL EXCUSE OR REASON 1. The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S.S. Bataan, " equipped with six operating rooms, hundreds of ho...

THANK GOD FOR WONKETTE "We have it on good authority that Christopher Hitchens is preparing a ten-point litany explaining why condition...

ANNE RICE Over the years, I have, now and then, been unkind to Anne Rice. Those of us in the vampire business can take on all the bitchiness...

FRESH LINKS From guys running a blog from a building in downtown NO, which may tell more than any of the increasingly confused news channels...

MY PET GOAT AND THE BUTCHER’S BILL At the end of the engagement Nelson would ask for "the butcher’s bill." (For the historically-c...

SEE THE CONSERVATIVE COMPASSION SEE THE PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP ALL THE FUN OF THE FIASCO BUT THE POOR DIE IN THE STREET Around 3.00AM last ...

THE DOOMWATCH THAT NEVER SEEMS TO END WHERE THE FUCK IS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? This is going to appear disjointed because, right now I feel...

DOOMWATCH KATRINA It’s hard to come to grips with the fact that New Orleans as we knew it is history. I also worry about the friends and fol...

SUNDAY OP-ED Today I had my first op-ed piece in the LA Times, which I guess is some kinda landmark. If the subject matter seems a little un...

SATURDAY ODDS AND ENDS Saturday afternoon. It’s hot. The TV beyond the wall just told me it was 108F in Chatsworth (where the porn comes fro...

DOOMWATCH As part of Doc40's untiring efforts to prove that it’s later than we think, and global warning is further advanced than most i...

BOSS GOODMAN UPDATE A little tardy in posting, but all is well. Su writes... You probably already heard, but Boss has had his angiogram and ...

RE ANN COULTER (see yesterday) The following was sent over by HCB... One of my favorites, from Casablanca: Major Strasser: Are you one of t...

COMPARATIVE RELIGION So the founder of the Christian Coalition and constant political player Pat Robertson called for the assassination of V...

SUNDAY FUNNIES Woke up this morning, and, for want of anything better to do, I read the NY Times (oh boy). Gleaned some hope from an excell...

REAL BAD NEWS THE HORROR, THE HORROR, CHRISTOPHER WALKEN IS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT! For more, read.... http://www.thesuperficial.com/arc...