Doc 40

Or, to be precise, down Santa Monica Boulevard back in Hollywood in the 1990s, when – on the way to the drugstore or one...

Our pal Postcriptus sent us this gem of an insight… “I'm reading a history of Scientology. Peggy Lipton at one point got E...

I lifted this from the blog of Anthony Brockway for no other reason that I’ve always admired the celebrated Bankhead… “What a meeting it m...

In nomine Patris et fillii et Spiritus Sancti and a hatful of McFries. What more does a poor boy need to get to heaven? Click here for D...

( Image by Romero Britto )

“Neither the Pope nor Chairman Mao had to play paddle ball with drunken cowboys staring at their ass.”

For some years I have been working in semi secrecy on a book of short stories all from the point of view of cats. ( Publishers take ...

I see happy school kids singing Woody Guthrie’s "This Land is Your Land," unaware that Woody was a card-carrying communist, a life...

Bucky Frozdick liked to get drunk and make out with chicks in his UFO.

This memoir of A.A. Milne (of Winnie the Pooh fame) makes me wonder if the mindset of the fat cat elite of 98 years ago was reall...

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DOC40 IS BLACKED OUT IN SOLIDARITY . Click here for why.

Remember the cocaine submarine? Now we have drug tanks. Seemingly the bad-ass Mexican narco crews are creating their own panzer d...

There’s a rather nice interview with me in the current issue of Word magazine. Click here for the website but I think you may have to pick...

Lucrezia Frozdick found it hard to obtain credit.

Breakfast with the iguana? What can I say today? He is the lizard king. He can do anything. Click here for an extended duelin...

In the last decade I labored long and hard on what came to be known as The Renquist Quartet, four modern-gothic novels on a no...

I sometimes wonder how Edvard Munch would have felt if he knew that his most celebrated painting was reproduced on t-shirts, fri...

“In space no one cares if you scream.”

It’s Friday 13th. I’m hiding under the bed. Don’t tell them I’m here! Click here for The Move The secret word is Irrational

Tomorrow is Friday 13th and this would seem to be a fine day for early warnings. In addition to what you see below it’s most lik...

This is not the stairway to heaven.

A rifle would give the tots too much of an even break.

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“Don’t say we didn’t warn you.”

Focused. Yes, I have been focused. I have been so damned focused – and also still taking fistfuls of meds – that I frequently ha...

Vladimir Ilyich Frozdick was probably the only one in the family who really knew the score.

As regular readers have probably noticed, Doc40 has been sadly neglected as I work on the great convalescent catch-up. I promise you I’ll so...

Guess who!

I think you can work out the Elvis connection for yourself.

Yes. I had a very good New Year’s Eve, thank you. And now it’s 2012, okay? To paraphrase Pop – another year for me and you, anot...