Doc 40

Since September 12th has apparently been designated as Glenn Beck Paranoia Day , I thought I’d go with the general flow, althoug...

Aunt Ayn decides the hat was an error, but will never admit it. (Shall we make this a series?)

In tune with the slightly fascist tone of the day, here’s a reminder to all you aliens out there that you fuck with Earthmen at your peril. ...

I have definite reservations about the kind of simulated electronic telekinesis as described in this story contributed by MrMR. I’m highly d...

In the ancient days, when my Panic In Year Zero column ran in the old LA Reader , Tom Tomorrow was always a few pages away...

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Every day, this fine service called Delancey Place sends me a random piece of information. Today’s is reproduced here, since, w...

“What happens to levitation, one of the great imaginative figures of art and literature, in the transition from a religious culture to the...

Pangaea Frozdick had a tendency to leave bodies on the sidewalk.

I am always pleased when scientific theory sneaks up from behind and confirms what science fiction has been taking for granted f...

In which Marilyn comments to the mirror on the wall. “I frankly don’t understand a word of this. All I know is that it happens. And it happe...

"Sometimes there's just no other alternative."

I don’t know how anyone else felt, but I found this last week in Los Angeles verging on brutal. By Thursday I was flagging, and when the L...

I don’t really know how I feel about this BBC news story sent by Valerie. Brian always seemed to have kind of a death wish, and maybe he sho...

...I would find a supreme satisfaction and consummate theory closure if the shooter on the Grassy Knoll decided to confess all at the moment...

Euripides and Downie Frozdick had taken fetish to what some considered an absurd extreme.

( Click the pic to see a larger version .) It’s very easy for the mind to boggle right now. I turn on the TV and find that the LA fires are ...

This arrived this morning… Chairman Mick -- It's been a busy, busy time in Bangalore and we've been tossed around trying to get toge...

“The old neighborhood sure has changed.” I am very behind with my mail and there are a lot of good friends I should have emailed and haven’t...

Sunday afternoon and LA is doing August – 100F+ and fires in the suburbs. I can only fight it with poetry. This poem is not new. I wrote it ...

Yes neighbours, capitalist absurdity knows no bounds. The energy drink audiciously called “Cocaine” was pulled from U.S. shelves two years a...

Your soul is now captured.

The last word on Dejah Thoris before we shelve the subject because somehow an arid Martian, two-moon landscape seems to fit wi...

Our pal Diva sent us this weekend report from halfway across the galaxy. “WASHINGTON - Astronomers have found what appears to be...

(Thanks to UK Steve)

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Valerie brings the plight of the axolotl to our much needed attention… “The amphibian that never grew up is on the verge of going extinct in...

Obviously we post this warning as a public service and not as just a lame excuse to run yet another bikini pic. (But it did originate from t...

Antipathy Frozdick had, with great and determined effort, turned holding a grudge into both a fine art and an exact science.

What seems to be turning into a Space Opera special began with HCB sending me this snippet by Ken Hulsey. “Infamous actress Traci Lords, ye...

Another attraction for the grubby schoolboy was that Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, didn’t wear any clothes. ECB’s first describes her (a...

The last of the Kennedy Brothers has gone, and an era has ended. Camelot fades to unconnected legend. I can't say anything more. The TV ...

Shall we all just stop messing around? Will politicians and the media can the mealy-mouthed acceptance of right wing assholes doi...

I have commented more than once to friends and acquaintances about how hard it’s gotta staying Goth in LA. When the mercury’s in the ninetie...

As Ned Sublette once remarked – “Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other, what did you think those saddles and boots was about? T...

So the death of Michael Jackson has been deemed a homicide and, if this was a movie, all the telltale signs point to the doctor, who seems t...

“They were giving the poor fucker how much of that shit?” (Pic lifted from Tom Sutpen .)

Yes, neighbors, it’s the USS Enterprise constructed entirely from pork products and toothpicks.

I was about to go to bed when the daily email came in from Delancey Place and, after the recent riff on medicinal acid, I figure...

Earlier in the night another mildly weird thing happened. I was watching – by default – a movie called Chop Suey by photographer Bruce Webe...

Munz sent us the following intriguing report about a reevaluation of LSD as a therapeutic agent. It’s interesting, although, having seen, fi...

It’s another picture of Brigitte for absolutely no other reason than maybe because it’s Saturday. This time she’s wearin...