Doc 40

God was unavailable for comment. His burning bush was down. The secret word cannot be uttered.

This less than sharp picture is of what was called The Johnny Seven One-Man Army, and I discovered it in accidental passing being offered on...

I woke and almost immediately threw up. I had been at a party the previous night and, still pissed off, I guess, at the termination of the s...

We at Doc40 cannot reveal how the following email was intercepted but… Dear Georgie, Will you just stop fretting about not having enough tro...

Dear Doc40, Although I posted a comment yesterday complaining about the use of my immortal catchphrase, "Here I come to...

ROBERT ANTON WILSON -- RIP YVONNE DE CARLO -- RIP

So I sat bemused, exchanging glances with the cat, and alternately wondering if our Simian President was on Thorazine, or was about to blow ...

As Bush pushes his disastrous doctrine of surge and sacrifice, aeswiren sent over this chilling piece from Alternet that reveals just how ma...

In the wee hours of the morning the following hit my email… The Pink Fairies are sad to announce that due to circumstances ...

Today is Elvis Presley's birthday. He would have been 72. The above illustration is the famous Elvis Prayer Mat by Joni Mabe . And what ...

Above you see the lads doing the serious business onstage at Dingwalls Dancehall, sometime in the mid to late 1980s (during our “Wiseguy Per...

Thanks to the most amazing piece of detective work by some girl (all hail and praise her name) the old Doc 40 comments board, and most of it...

For most of the day, I have idly watched the Democrats install themselves in House. I am not a huge Nancy Pelosi fan, but to have poli...

Well, this new template does seem to be working, and yes, it is a great deal more conventional than the previous one, and I miss the huge im...

I don't know if this is going to work or turn into a total monster. You may have to bear with me as I try to work things out. Once again...

MORE PROBLEMS WITH THE NEW BLOGGER SET UP AND WE NOW HAVE TO RECONSIDER AN ENTIRE CHANGE OF FORMAT WHICH IS SOMETHING I DON'T RELISH.

AFTER THE HANGING, A QUARTET OF QUESTIONS 1) While being aware that Saddam Hussein was a mass-murdering shithead, I must confess that a part...

FROM THE POST-XMAS MAIL Aeswiren reports on… CTHULHU’S PARENTAGE “ According to correspondence between Lovecraft and fellow author Clark As...

MEANWHILE I have a media column in the new LA CityBeat on the moral effects of Xmas advertising, and also Steve Appleford has a cover story...

POET FINDS LOST WORK When Lizzie Siddal, the wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti died of am overdose of laudanum, the distraught Rossetti had his...

JAMES BROWN --RIP

SO? YOU GOT A PAIR OF 3D GLASSES HANDY? I should be writing about Bubble Boy's fucking demented brainstorm of a military "surge...

From Dimitrios... A actual pic of Keith Richards as Jack Sparrow's dad. Remember you saw it here second! (Also check Dinitrios' zine...

DANCING? In the new LA CityBeat, I have a whimsical piece on dancing. That's right. Dancing . The secret word is Tuxedo My mind is also ...

OOOOOPS! (As in serious) Doug the Bass sent over this little tale of horror… The Nation Mon Dec 18, In March 2005, a nuclear warhead almost ...

TO THE DYING OF THE LIGHT With just four days to go to the solstice, the sunset comes before one is ready. (Or even out of bed.) Of course, ...

GLOATING In the this week's media column , I do a lot of of gloating over the new order in Washington. This was written, however, before...

CLIVE THOMPSON & I ARE WORRIED ABOUT OCTOPI Check out what the man has to say and watch the truly amazing piece of video. If we ever pis...

“CATASTROPHUCK” (or maybe “catastrofuck”) The night before last, as far as I could tell beneath the beeps, Jon Stewart invented this fine ne...

While I still wipe the metaphoric kosmolene from the new computer, and accustom myself to Blogger Beta, MrMR -- while still celebrating the ...

"He s-o-o-o bores us with his technological complaints."

The following came in from our pal Tim. Progress really does seem to be becoming a royal pain in the ass, but we persevere. Hey Mick, I rece...

BUT AUGUSTO PINOCHET (THE MURDERING FUCKHEAD) IS DEAD, BUT -- DING FUCKING DONG -- AT 91!

THE DOC HAS PROBLEMS Okay, so I'm breaking in new computer and I don't have the old cookies, and, at the same time, blogger beta ha...

SERIOUS MALFUNCTION, PLUS BLOGGER BETA IS MAKING EVERYTHING TURN WEIRD .

IS THERE SUCH A THING AS VISUAL PUN? While I was brewing the Xmas absinthe, our old homie HCB, sent over the pics here posted. As he tells u...

"Stay the course?" DOESN’T ANYONE HAVE A FUCKING CLUE ANY MORE? I was watching CNN earlier and really starting to wonder how lon...

"This is your brain on zen." A MESSAGE FROM OUR FUHRER... " NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States...

I MAY BE WATCHING TOO MUCH TV, BUT... Twice today, I noticed Republican talking heads calling Barack Obama "Barack Hussein Obama"...

"Ever have days when your brain feels like this?"

PEACE IN OUR TIME Some girl, Miss Templeton, and a couple of others forwarded this story from Associated Press "A homeowners associatio...

LET THEM EAT CAKE! That’s right neighbors. No one in America is hungry any more. The Orwellians in the Bush administration have decided to n...

JFK WON’T GO WAY . Indeed, neither will either of the Kennedy Brothers. And neither they should, if only as a Camelot reminder of how far th...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING Y'ALL (pic supplied by MrMR)

"I’m still the patsy" AND HOW CAN WE PREPARE FOR THANKSGIVING WITHOUT ALSO RECALLING... that this is the forty-third anniversary o...

"It’s Micky, darling. I haven’t been gone that long." DRAINED BY THE CONSIDERATIONS OF COMMERCE, I MANAGED TO FIND MY WAY BACK Aft...

"Yeah right. Free labor. Even more cost effective than cheap labor. Up the IWW!" ALTHOUGH THIS I S NOT TO SAY THAT I’M NOT KEEPING...

UPDATE I HAVEN’T HAD A FUCKING CIGARETTE FOR FOUR WEEKS AND I’M PRETTY DAMNED PLEASED WITH MYSELF. (Hardly doing well in the area of trashy...

TO WRITE IS A HARD TASKMISTRESS, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS I feel like I’m letting everyone down by being absent from the blog just when GWB can...

MEANWHILE A paparazzi snaps a bag of grass in Paris Hilton’s handbag. Does this mean she's not really that stupid -- just high as a kite...

IRRATIONALLY HAPPY I find myself irrationally happy that the big old slow and obsolete comments board over on the right has now passed the 1...

But put your shirt on, sweetie. It might make you a bit more plausible.

I FINALLY MANAGED TO TEAR MYSELF AWAY Brothers and sisters, I not only managed to drag myself away from this monster and still ongoing proje...

GOOD NEWS! DOPE CAN SAVE YOUR BRAIN The following was sent by the lovely Valerie (and is good news for me, since my mother died of Alzheimer...

STILL HARD AT IT, BUT I THOUGHT THIS WAS WORTHY OF SOME CONSIDERATION (from munz)