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Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has long been a solid favorite of Doc 40, and the above picture is published to mark the fact that she taken over ...

The following horror story comes out of China… "The pelts of 27 snow leopards were recently seized from a black market trader in China....

We’re Iberian lynx* and this is our tale of woe. (Sent by Valerie) When the fuck are you humans going to leave us animals alone? * Is lynx ...

Having been using lyric fragments through this post, here’s a full 12 minutes of The Doors doing a live version “When The Music’s Over”. Oh ...

Sadly the ladies of the QMAPDP may be unable to make the gig but Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun can be counted on to be rolling out their ...

Aeswiren, who we depend on to keep an eye on these kind of things sent this acute analysis of how the Reagan Administration taught the Saudi...

And God thunders... “ THIS IS NOT MY BLOODY PHONE NUMBER!!! ” Or however the angry voice of God might look in print. (This is all the fault...

As the Army in the form of Gen. David Petraeus, recommends that decisions on the contentious issue of reducing the main body of the American...

…the only person on the planet who hasn’t seen the Britney Spears MTV Awards train wreck, here it is again . The secret word is Over

“We’re going to see Mick & Andy next Thursday?” “Of course, darling, we’re purple-haired, future-retro space lesbians, what else...

The following distressing item was forwarded by some girl. “An… Independent on Sunday investigation has found that polar bears are being sh...

Seems to be a lazy Sunday, fit for doing very little except tidying up outstanding stuff. We have two versions of the same story about the l...

HCB also forwarded another of those sites where one can get free downloads of old Deviants recordings if you know how to work them. In this ...

The secret word is Headache

Valerie has sent a fascinating link to Project Censored – News The Didn’t Make The News . It’s long, but some of it really makes the blood r...

"Darlings, we're to save you from the Crocs. And we have heels !"

The media constantly prove themselves such suckers for the combination of death, Hollywood, and the 20th century. This week MSNBC felt the n...

THESE ARE CROCS. SHOOT THE WEARER ON SIGHT. TAKE NO PRISONERS. ACCEPT NO EXCUSES.

Yeah, Ron? And when the hell is America going to wise up to the fact that socialized medicine in one form or another i...

Thanks HCB

It’s amazing what the media will come up with on a slow news day. In this instance MSNBC offered a stunning statistic. "Rock stars - no...

Mind deadened to a dull ach by the same layer of motionless heat, power blackouts, dull dissatisfaction, and, other scenarios shopping thems...

The translation is “ Anarchist books are arms against fascism ” (Thank you Valerie.) Which I allow to reassure me that I am not a fraud, bec...

Here in Los Angeles, the temperature was pushing 100F this afternoon with no exaggeration. Parts of the city suffered power blackouts, and t...

Here’s another Julian Beever (the English artist famous for his chalk art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australi...

Doug the Bass sends over this was an 'off the cuff' response by Brother Noam Chomsky, during a public talk, to an audience interrupt...

The email is still byron4d@msn.com

Where is the woman in the black vinyl dress? And why does she weep and stumble from the mausoleum? Last night I had the dream I have feared ...

HILLY KRISTAL -- RIP

I don’t know if it’s an omen, good or bad or what, but Ronald Reagan keeps popping up all over. Here he is with James Dean on the cover of t...

Julian Beever is an English artist who's famous for his chalk art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgi...

(Spanish Civil War poster from Refugi 307 ) After writing for most of the weekend, my hands hurt, I had no thoughts left, and some local wea...

It’s been while since Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun walked their musical dog in the Los Angeles basin. But did you really think we’d hung...

Bernie sent this review from yesterdays Sunday Times in London of a 32 track CD compilation called “Cries From The Midnight Circus – Ladbrok...

Can’t write anything profound, insightful or even just plain silly today since I am contending with the deadline from Black Lagoon. I can, ...

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...