Doc 40

Mainly in the interests of retaining my sanity, I pay as little attention as I can to what’s being promoted by Roger Ailes and Fox News. I a...

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You may recall that, eight days ago (Wednesday August 15th ) Doc40 engaged the idea that we might all be imaginary entities running round in...

Hurricane Dean (for James Dean, Dean Stockwell, Dean Moriarty?*)didn’t hit any major population centers or wreck a city, and blew out leavin...

...and is the ghost of Jim Jones stalking the desert sands? (They always did say he really fronted for the CIA.)

Good lord, it sounds like something out of James Joyce, except this would appear to be an exercise in guerrilla art, which, if nothing else ...

I fear even we at Doc 40 suffer from the same deplorable short attention span as our brethren in TV and print. One day a story is red hot, b...

But then Tim B sent this quote from the just published REAGAN DIARIES. The entry is dated May 17, 1986, and records Reagan’s opinion of Geor...

Artist Till Novak constructed this produce masterpiece, the Alien made entirely out of vegetables as his tribute to H. R. Giger and ...

The mainstream media seem to have totally ignored this story (sent by Sky) of particles moving at more than the speed of light, but if it’s ...

"I can't do that, Dave"

For a while, our Dutch pals the Buggers seemed to be laying low, but then, back at the end of July the came through with new position, and ...

Valerie send the above suggestion for staying cool in the August furnace.

When Munz sent over this piece from The Guardian in London, I kinda groaned. Another fucking dissection of 1967? But this one seems to be f...

Which is actually a lame excuse for being, with LA in the nineties, too burned to even think let alone come up with a witty, thought provoki...

Elvis with Little Junior Parker and Bobby Bland Elvis Presley died thirty years ago today. I think we can all accept by now that he’s not hi...

In the last year 99 military personnel serving in Iraq have committed suicide.

It’s hot here at the night computer, and the wee hours could grow depressing, so why not a picture of Liz when she was hot and not...

And while I post this cover, Dr. Adder writes, “some Ph. D at Oxford catches up to where Philip K. Dick was 40 years ago, and somehow it...

Meanwhile Sky passes along this frightening report that, if this is some asshole’s computer simulation, it is managed worse than the real wo...

Discussion of the possible plans of the hideous Karl Rove continued today like one of his own demon talking points. The theory I liked best ...

"It was a dirty job, but Rove liked to do it." When I read news (oh boy) I flatly didn’t believe it. “Karl Rove, President Bush...

And talking of Karl Rove’s deft use of homophobia as a tool in the political power game, we should not forget it when we congratulate oursel...

The article was about a proposed new skyscraper in San Francisco, taller than the Trans America Pyramid, but the illustration jumped ...

“Troops Out Now” is an easy slogan, but actually to extricate the US military from Iraq and George Bush’s asinine and foully fu...

This story headed “ Eight-million-year-old bug is alive and growing ” culled by HCB from the New Scientist strikes me as a really bad idea....

In this week’s LA CityBeat , I mark the passing of the Weekly World News and fifteen years of the inimitable and irreplaceable Bat Boy, and...

“Happy anniversary, folks.” In 378 at the battle of Adrianople, Gothic horsemen destroyed the attacking Roman forces led by Emperor Valens. ...

This is a still from Left Behind: Eternal Forces as devout Christians gun down the unbelievers. The Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game...

This has to be by far the most foolishly pretentious guitar in the history of rock & roll. (Shared with us by HCB) Gotta sleep now, and...

"Hi, I’m a badger but I’m also a nocturnal bio-weapon.” This strange tale of the Iraqi War sent by UK Steve, has been somewhat o...

I keep finding all these sites where you can download bits and pieces of The Deviants and like stuff. Human Garbage , is the live recording ...

Since The Simpsons Movie seems to be exploited all over, let’s put Bart to our own nefarious use. What did the Jesuits say? “Give us the ch...

I have never had anything specific against Starbucks. I’ve never been in one, I didn’t like the ambiance, and thought they were just part of...

Here is a piece by Allen Ginsberg from two wars ago, demonstrating that nothing changes. (Thanks Valerie) These are the names of the com...

The White House – ever a friend of the earth – recently issued a “wolf management proposal” – the 10J rule – that would give states a licens...

Napoleon in rags and the language that he used? As regular visitors to Doc40 may have gleaned, it’s been a long hard week during whic...

Unfortunately the concept of revolution was apt to become a little confused at times. It was probably the acid in the water supply.

Does that seem an unreasonable demand? (Or maybe I just need some sleep and should post something more logical later.) Oh yeah, I keep forg...

This is real, not a Spielberg set for his next Philip K. Dick movie. This is Dubai. This is what the mega-rich demand from their arch...

Whiskey river take my mind.* (Don't let her memory torture me.) I have written myself into the ground. My hands hurt, my arms ache, my b...

They are coming for us! More and more of them! There may be pods in the laundry room! Will no one help us? The secret word is Idiopathic

Remember how, a couple of years ago, we all got all misty about the movie March of the Penguins ? Well, it seems like the penguins’ marching...

Our pals in Holland, the Buggers are back. Which is a damned good thing because I always relish their stuff, and I’m also w...

Our pal Rich sends this email from the middle of it all… “It seems whilst you swelter in LA, here in Blighty, or at least in Gloucestershire...

“Ferocious, pack-feeding jumbo squid have invaded waters off California's central coast and are devouring local fish populati...