Doc 40

WASHINGTON - President Bush will have a colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand presidential powers to Vice President Dick ...

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Big yup. Definitely. Sure as shit, Sherlock, CA is irredeemably in the crapper. It’s all those little green immigrants coming out of the cra...

I’ve come up with another of those sites where you can listen to free samples of the music we’ve labored on all these years. In this instanc...

…while I’m catching up on the backlog of stuff that remains after being deprived of internet access for almost five days, despite...

This week, LA CityBeat has a marijuana issue and I contributed a catalogue of lies . (And also do some sparring on the letters page, and pre...

Thanks to Doug the Bass for reminding me the that John Coltrane died forty years ago today.

WELL MAYBE NOT, BUT THE DOC40 MODEM BLEW ITSELF OUT ON SATURDAY MORNING. IT TOOK UNTIL NOW TO GET A REPAIR MAN FROM THE MIGHTY TIME WARNER. ...

BUT BEFORE YOU SETTLE DOWN FOR YOUR WEEKEND JUST WATCH THIS ! AND THIS TOO!( Thanks Valerie)

I like nothing more than to smoke a whole lotta dope on a Saturday and stare at an optical illusion. But I’m not too sure about this...

Woody Guthrie was born on this day in 1912. He died almost forty years ago, but is far from forgotten, and the same damned fight for dignity...

It’s weird how these things appear and you have no idea why they are lurking on the web or how they came to be there. This collection was re...

It’s all fine and dandy to laugh at Dick Cheney and cast him as a human-devouring, A. E. Van Vogt space monster, but, something has to be do...

Why does looking at this make me immediately think of Dick Cheney. Like an “origin” episode in which he stows away on the spaceship, eats th...

“Maybe the aliens had the right idea.” The following, sent over by Rich is all perfectly true, except cow fart -- and now cow belch -- has b...

Enough with the cowboys and aliens, already. This is getting out of hand. (See Tuesday) HCB sent this over long along with the trailer for T...

Take a look and get pissed off!

Must write. Must work. Must drive myself crazy. But must leave the DOC40 visitors a quick shot of H. P. Lovecraft in the form an ...

(The disturbing part is that the lady in the picture looks uncommonly like old photos of my late mother.) Donated by Hermit

THE TECHNOLOGY OF SUBVERSION Valerie has sent us two killer clips of laser graffiti in action. The first is happening in Barcelona and is th...

DOC’S PAPERBACK CLASSICS # 19 A very bad attack of genre confusion going on here. I mean spaceships, whips, horses, spurs, aliens, girls in ...

THEY DON’T MAKE BANDS LIKE THAT ANY MORE #2 I came across this picture while working on the super-fine, up coming Bomp magazine wonder book ...

A GROWTH INDUSTRY? The above was photographed on Sunset Boulevard and submitted by munz. A few weeks ago the CIA was running recru...

I HAVE TO WONDER WHY SUDDENLY, FOR NO REASON THE BLOGGER POST TITLE FIELD CEASES TO WORK. I GUESS IT WILL COME BACK, OR MAYBE IT WON'T.

SINCE BUSH AND CHANEY HAVE FAILED TO RESIGN, LET'S TURN TO THE ODD FOR THE WEEKEND

A good place to start is to stare into the blue sphere for as long as your attention span can take it. If you see anything of any rare signi...

More later, because I have a column to write, but, if you haven’t already seen it, I can’t urge you more strongly to watch Keith Olbermann’...

SIGN A PETITION TO IMPEACH DICK CHENEY Except, as I filled in the boxes a feeling of unease came over me. Was I putting myself on some futur...

Ruben reminds us that Jim Morrison died thirty-six years ago today. I could only imagine, had he lived, he’d be drinking harder than ever as...

A Morrison artifact (courtesy fidicen, like the photo) The secret word is Perception

What is there left to discuss? Their evil must be held to be self-evident. Their corruption stinks for sea to shining sea, and their homicid...

Meanwhile, with amazing synchronicity, as Valerie sends the tigers, noudela gives us this clip of Muddy Waters doing “I’ll Put A Tiger In Yo...

As Bush lets Scooter Libby walk, our favorite southern belle writes " I am nuts with anger. Please write something ." Well darlin...

Seemingly, in some quarters, this is National UFO Day. So if you see an alien, I recommend you buy it an ice cream. Beyond that, here’s the ...

I’ll frankly admit that I think the dog-days of summer are on us here in bloody LA and the prospect of two months of rising temperatures plu...

Thanks Hermit

The secret word is Luna

Our pal aeswiren has sent the following from Truth Out with the comment – “As the death spiral of the Bush Administration tightens and Duby...

The last few days have proved somewhat fragmented, to the point that I totally forgot to provide a link to a savage attack in my LA CityBeat...

Posting pictures today, neighbors, because if I don't get some work done, I'll be begging for energy.

Man, have I gotta cough. Which way to Stone Street? (from HCB

As Dr Kinsey noted at some length, the sexual mindclamp of the mind 20th century, that tried to jail Lenny Bruce for saying “cocksucker”, p...

Actually no, much as it would be a blast to believe there were abstract impressionist aliens, the real story from Steve UK goes as follows.....

“Why do I have to be Mr. Pink?” This is the Move in 1966, when acid was a fairly rare, esoteric source of recreation, so quickly made illega...

The Pentagon black budget is a secret iceberg that makes all horrors plausible. As in “gee, guys, wouldn’t be nifty to tailor a sexually tra...

But if the above has depressed the fuck out of you, here’s Iggy at Glastonbury . (How the fuck does he do it at his age?) Thanks Tim B. AND ...

Or amphetamines can have similar effect but eliminate the need for boiling water and a mug. (And talking of coffee mugs, I really think a Do...

Hello. Missed a couple of days. Have not been feeling well for the last twenty hours, and have been hiding from the computer, and although t...

( That’s Kitty-san to you, gaijin .) Having read the piece below and aware that armed Europeans surround him, Newton is now lobbying for a s...

Both MrMR and some girl have sent over versions of this fascinating report about the discovery of what might be the first shooting victim in...

The New York Times discovers absinthe at sixty bucks a bottle . My hope is that it will drive the apple martini crowd drooling insane and t...