Doc 40

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that George Orwell conceived the idea of 1984, and the total surveillance police state in the United ...

"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest ...

But it's Saturday, so lets leave the worry and paranoia for Monday. Click here to watch the Family Guy production number “A Bag Of Weed...

“I found these rather fantastic photographs from Google’s Life magazine collection. They feature some teenagers at a ‘...

Back when the world was young Drunk on cheap well whiskey And confused on mescaline Walking rattlesnake curves On sidewalks that refused to ...

Elvis? Yes, Elvis! Four days before Elvis Presley died, a Philadelphia psychic called Marc Salem wrote a prediction of his death that includ...

Uncle Bill suits up for his second trip in the alien spacecraft.

As Senator Arlen Specter changes side from the Republican to Democrat, and moves President Obama closer to an absolute majority in the Senat...

The following arrived today with more bad news about our wildlife… Dear Mick, In the next few weeks, the U.S. Forest Service plans t...

This blog is still approved by the Corleone Crime Family

In which, for some days, Marilyn has been followed everywhere by the wholly inane and annoyingly butch drag-queen Jane Russell replicant, wh...

As a longtime connoisseur of hallucinations, I can totally assure you that this works really well, despite the somewhat lame music. Click he...

As in the face of Jesus in the wafer of a Kit Kat. (Image supplied by Wendy) The secret word is Worship The secret message is 47616262612d67...

Did someone say creepy, or maybe our just desserts? As the media panics about a swine flu pandemic, the following was sent ...

The secret word is Rebellion The secret message is 576174746120796f7520676f743f

I was sitting down to write some piece of Saturday cynical amusement and then, with dire synchronicity, I received this link from our good p...

This is from 1914. Sadly little changes unless forced to.

"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is ...

The heatwave has passed and I'm back. Without irony or sarcasm, I’m touched by how, when I don’t post anything on Doc40 for a ...

Munz sent over this story from multi-instrumentalist Chris Darrow. We’ll ignore the obvious jokes. “New German research indicates tha...

Uncle Bill is convinced the typewriter moved and he waits for it to move again.

As cynics surmised, it did take me a couple of days to get over Friday night’s Hawkwind tribute. At events of that kind, I do rather feel ob...

Back in the 20th century I wrote an excellent book called The Black Leather Jacket which latter became a Channel 4/PBS documentary n...

Seems like I’ll be gracing the stage at the LA Knitting Factory tomorrow, performing at a Hawkwind tribute, at the invitation of our pal Tom...

I have a well reasoned rant about Grey Aliens posted on the L.O.W.F.I. website. (That’s League of Western Fortean Intermediatists, t...

Our pal Elf Hellion has sent us a link to an amazing piece of archive material – a 1975 Rolling Stone interview with Phili...

The sign read “AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ARE THE JEWS FOR OBAMA’S OVENS.” At first I laughed in disbelief. The Republican Party, just as I predicte...

Munz forwarded this and we swear that it’s real, and reproduced about as intact as we can make it. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- F...

I had frankly grown bored with the Obama’s new dog. The First Puppy was taking far too long to arrive and had even developed its own politic...

But this is the way we like to remember rock & roll’s first psycho. (Thanks Tom .)

(I notice the giant germs are only carrying off the women.)

Our pal Tim has more than his fair share of family troubles. Doc40 offers him all possible comfort.

I guess this is the fall of the Wall of Sound… "LOS ANGELES - Rock music producer Phil Spector was convicted Monday of second-degree mu...

Uncle Bill falls asleep at the dream machine. And HCB has coincidentally sent us this review by Jason Anderson of the documentary Fli...

This is not the Jetex spaceship referred to in yesterday’s post. But it’s close.

These are your brains on religion.

"But you're not a pig." "Seek bacon elsewhere, Earthman."

Jetex was crucial in the development of my pre-teen personality, and thus, when I discovered an actual print ad for the Jetex motor on my fa...

“Hang on, my dear. We seem to have been jigsawed.”

Apparently the Obama administration have not done enough to reverse the disastrous wildlife policies of the Bush administration. Very soon, ...

And why, I wonder, do the words “zombie cannibalism” creep into my mind?