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It was always a fond and favorite scenario among us anarchists of the psychedelic left. Dump a mind-melting quantity of LSD-25...

Nobody told me, but last night, the planet Neptune was in perfect opposition, a straight line could be drawn from it right...

At regular intervals, as I amble through the hours, I hear Buddy Holly singing “Everyday”, and I feel happy because it co...

From Valerie

“But, mama, the saucer people always bring me back.” Yesterday we had Elvis singing the word “motherfucker.” Today we have t...

Goddamn BP are even buying TV time and running sanctimonious commercials that attempt to claim the worse of oil has gone and all i...

Or maybe drive you crazy. Click here .

And what, we wonder, is taking place in the background?

Many years ago, I drove with Wayne Kramer from Detroit to St. Louis because Wayne was getting paid to do a guest spot on ...

In a few days, Ray Bradbury will celebrate his 90th birthday. So do yourself a favor, click here for a most surprising tribute to the vener...

The project was terminated after Sam Frozdick and his partner Norman were beaten to death by their own malfunctioning robot.

The way that the medical profession avoided the therapeutic use of psychedelics because of what’s referred to below as “negativ...

Discussion has broken out on the interwebs about how early Beatles recordings may have been deliberately speeded up to increase im...

Here at Doc40 we are huge fans of Simon’s cat, and were thus delighted when Valerie sent us one we hadn’t seen before. Click he...

According to Scientific American, sharks are not, in fact, the big, dumb, nasty, Quint-eating sons-of-bitches we generally imagine ...

The other day I happened across a website called Comics With Problems that is a amazingly rich collection of various kind...

And for more on speed (succumbing to the temptation of a cheap, self-serving plug) you could pick up a copy of my book Sp...

Animator Max Fleischer is recognized primarily as the creator of Betty Boop but, in the early 1940s, he produced a series of an...

Today is the Elvis Death Day. We don’t actually celebrate it here at Doc40. It’s more the domain of depressed ladies who ...

Here at Doc40 we’ve tracked the fortunes of bees for a number of years. Usually word from the bee world is not good, but the wond...

Our good pal Jimmy sent over this thought provoking report… “Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 bill...

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This morning murmur really has no logic to it, except as a nebulous wash of fond memory regarding how much I adore the traditiona...

“I’ll have the eggs – heavy on the Benedict.”

This tiny Russian kitten is named Luntik, and although the mutant kitty’s four-eared image has gone somewhat viral, no one ap...

While all eyes are still on the Gulf, BP is killing the wild mustangs in Nevada. Our pal Elf Hellion writes – “I'm contemplat...

From out of the rising sun comes something the world probably didn’t know it couldn’t do without. Yes, neighbors, it’s light sa...

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It’s Friday the thirteenth so let’s get right to the bad news… “Average temperatures during the month of July were eight degrees C...

Amelie Frozdick considered her iron ensemble tres chic , and even the hammer was preferable to the welding torch.

Right before the Elvis Death Day, our pal Jon sent us this twist of iconography. I’m not sure what I’d do with Elvis’ hair if I had it. “O...

I’m not a real Iron Maiden fan but the video for their tune "The Final Frontier" is really a piece of work. Click here .

Each night, around midnight, an email appears in my inbox from our good friends at Delancey Place that contains something basic but really ...

And a couple more days before the above, we got this… “Researchers have found that the ability to tell fibs at the age of two i...

Back in the mid-1990s, the Deviants – the nucleus of which was me, Andy Colquhoun, and Jack Lancaster – recorded a song called “Ha...

Not content with going after Darwin, the insane Christians are now directing their pitchforks at Albert Einstein for creating ...

Pronouncements that paper books are dead and should resign themselves to pulping have been made for at least a decade, if not more. The coll...

Ramses Frozdick could levitate turtles.

Our pal Aeswiren sent us this very frightening map from the ultra-libertarian Cato Institute that appears to show how law enfor...

Our pal HCB, “ who is going ever further up the Tiber in search of the Spaghetti Western Heart Of Darkness ” sent us this thrill-pack...