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Currently close to 200,000 veterans – mainly of the Bush wars – are homeless, and essentially being denied government help. Paul Rieckoff ru...

TOMORROW (Saturday Jan 19th) the new book Bomp! : Saving the World One Record at a Time gets a signing by co-author Suzy Shaw and myself, c...

“You bastard. You told me there’d be a Target and a Starbucks.”

The following was sent by Brer LW (to whom I owe a jocular email). He is talking to Danny Baker on Baker’s Brit radio show. "Dan, aroun...

A rumor has been circulating around my frequently unreliable neck of the woods that the Tom Cruise/Katy Holmes offspring is not Tom’s at all...

“Doc has posted a whole new selection of his truly bizarre and often depressingly retro musical selections on DOCTUBE , but I think I’ll ju...

Regular readers will know that every two weeks I write a media column titled Mick’s Media for the tabloid LA CityBeat, and every two weeks ...

Hey! Here comes the brave new world of cybertaste that will make cookbooks – even like the one above – redundant. "Have you ever gone t...

This blog is still affiliated with The White Panther Party

“So listen up, all you who read and commented on last Saturday’s post (Jan 5th), it’s been a murderously horrible day round at the Doc40 bun...

PHILIP AGEE -- RIP (Click for his story) Sent by Bernard Sir Edmund Hillary -- RIP

Since today is an overloaded day weighed down with work, I thought I’d pass along these quotes sent as a New Year greeting by a dear friend,...

Today is Elvis Presley’s birthday. Had he not committed subconscious suicide by butter and bacon three decades ago, he would have been 73 t...

What else is there to say on a damp Sunday afternoon except we miss Divine more than we miss Mick Jagger and – oh yeah – there’s new stuff o...

Even though the Sci Fi Channel will not give us a new series of Battlestar Galactica until March, I have remarked on a number of occasions ...

Of course, my judgment may have become a tad warped when the Cylons started looking like Tricia Helfer.

While I attempt to digest Obama, Huckabee, and the significance of the whole Iowa Caucus, I’m posting this X-ray of a snake in the Australia...

New tunes on DOCTUBE

Dare we hope that it will be less horrendous than last year? (Valerie sent the fireworks.) (Oh yeah, and yesterday I was too preoccupied and...

Bomp (co-written with Suzy Shaw) entered the LA Times Bestsellers today at #13. So will it do better next week or quietly drop out? We wait...

Don't you just adore heavy handed and ironic 1950s nuclear doomsday comics. And aren't you glad the same doesn't play...

The New York Times informs us how, in western Virginia, far from the limelight, United States Attorney John L. Brownlee found himself on t...

Waking to the news of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto was distracting. Then the TV pundit fears of a Pakistani civil war, during which t...

Ever since the time, as a young lad, I saw Kirk Douglas in the movie The Vikings , I have always considered the idea of worshiping Odin, Tho...

“Better still, though, there’s nifty new tunes on DOCTUBE , sweetie!”

The secret word is Hungover Oscar Peterson -- RIP Arabella Spencer Churchill -- RIP

The secret word is Custard

Early Sunday, distracted with not a lot to say. May think of more later, but I wonder who’s reading this now that Christmas is upon us. But...

Here at Doc40, it seems we can’t go a month or more without running a picture of Marilyn Monroe. This time, I’ve added a poem by Delmore Sch...

Okay, so it’s Battlestar Galactica merchandise, and I find myself having increasingly more sympathy with the Cylons, but this merch is so da...

Ain’t nostalgia wonderful? But there’s a whole, brand new mess of free People’s Music over on DOCTUBE .

Maybe someone allowed a chink in the curtains. The sunlight prenetrated the vice presiental gloom, and his attendant vampires conflagrated? ...

“How weird? “Very weird.” Saturday’s excursion out to the frontiers of science instigated by Sky Element 115 seems have gleaned a few more l...

I’m not even sure about this myself. Should I do it? Or would it be gauche or bad form? From Counter Punch to Susie Bright I see all these b...

(left) Gravity waves (but who waves back?) This is from Science Frontiers No. 173, Sep-Oct 2007, pp. 1&2 and sent by Sky Element 115 ...

"Get hep to the rebop on DOCTUBE , daddio." Or watch an excerpt right here . (The classic line is at the end of the clip.) The se...

Redrat may have an explanation of the sudden rash of Dalek/Katy Manning searches – see comment on "Never Trust a Dalek"…. "Ky...

About a week ago in Huffpo I found this very succinct nutshell history of US labor relations by Matt Stoller. Other stuff got in the way but...

In the last forty-eight hours, Doc 40 has had maybe 400 Google hits for this single image that I posted back in May. Is something going on I...

Those voices in your head? Maybe you don’t need a tinfoil hat. They may be a commercial mindfuck. The A&E cable channel is lite...

About a condition that only stopped a month or so ago here in LA, and can come back any time it feels like it. (And was sent by Dr Adder) “T...

A whole new slew of songs can be found at DOCTUBE

I have a new book out – or, to be precise – I have half a new book out, since this was a collaborative effort with the lovely Suzy Shaw, and...

30 years of rock'n'roll viewed from the garage. Features full color repros of the first rock'n'roll zine Mojo Navigator (196...

As I sit endlessly at this computer I forget just how much I take it for granted. The picture to the left is of the hard drive memory unit f...

In fact, our computers have come so far that that our pal Valerie can link us to a site that will render any word into R2D2 audio-speak , wh...

“I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.”

Photographed Balducci's meat counter. Sent by munz. The secret word is Porcine And, on the subject of pigs, how is it the Thought Pol...