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Doc the Bass sent over following and very disturbing report from Yahoo News that tells how the USA – the supposed land of the fr...

Every wonder how I get my hair the way it is? (Thanks Valerie)

The folLowing was sent by Valerie, culled from the New Scientist. It would seems that the military really knows no bounds. "Governments...

This make no sense unless one is a Fawlty Towers afficianodao.

Jettboy, a regular reader and commentator on Doc40, and a definite veteran member of our funhouse, emails me that he has co-founded a new re...

Once upon a time Ralph Nader was a revered figure, the defender of the consumer, but now he has degenerated into an egomaniac who would rath...

This deeply bizarre album cover is posted without comment and in haste because Andy and I have a show tonight. For details of the show scrol...

The following story appeared recently in The Times of London, (sent by Bernard) although it also applies to the US (and France). My primary...

Every so often we run a picture of Jack Elam on Doc40. And if you don’t know who Jack Elam is ask via a comment.

“So do you think John McCain was fucking the Telecom lobbyist?" “If he was, my glee would be unseemly.” ( For the story so far ) The se...

THEY WILL ARRIVE ON SATURDAY Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun will be playing their alien electric blues again this coming Saturday (February ...

“I’m outta here, but the other guy is long dead.” This will probably upset a few people, but Fidel Castro, despite his flaws and excesses, w...

No reason for posting this except I came across a cache of UFO pics (from Turkey of all places) and I thought it was coolly dramatic. And al...

“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of indep...

SHOOT DOWN THAT SATELLITE As the US prepares to shoot down the 10-ton spy satellite that was launched in December 2006 but didn’t properly d...

Freddie Bell -- RIP

Fucking hell, Doctor T, why did you have to go and blow yourself away. It's getting weirder enough for most of us and we in the Old Guar...

Jon sent me this long and righteously angry piece by Chris Floyd from his excellent blog Empire Burlesque , essentially saying the, although...

I have been working on my new book (on the subject of drugs as it happens) all the livelong damned day, so I don’t have to much to say excep...

“Would Woody Guthrie have tolerated this shit?” HCB has just sent over this scathing commentary on the music business by Simon Napier-Bell -...

(Thanks Tim)

You hear no lonesome train whistles round midnight here in Hollywood. The closest thing is the howl of an LAPD siren. Doesn’t mean, though, ...

Bowed under the weight of a never-ending and increasing nonsensical election process, and the Dems, with every advantage known t...

DOC FEELS LOUSY AND IS GOING TO BED. NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED IN THE AM.

It’s a wistful hungry feeling (and will probably do no one no good) that this might just be the dynamic duo to head some kind of...

PLUS GOOD NEWS ON HIGH HEELS! This highly inaccurate vision of life on Pluto (and maybe why it was officially downgraded from planet to pla...

Whatever the anonymous commenting trolls might make of it, my posting of the above (from Elizabeth) does not mean I have absolutely anything...

A quote for Monday sent by munz "You could afford to get mixed up with wild strangers in those days---without fearing for your life, or...

"Stop looking at my shoes, there's a new and highly perverse selection of tunes on DOCTUBE "

On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward slanting, I awakened to the ranting of the man I catch mice for. Tips...

This piece on the primaries for LA CityBeat was written before the news came down that John Edwards had dropped out of the race. I do...

It’s been a while since we had a baby panda to distract us, but now a giant panda cub, Fu Long, has made his debut at a zoo in Vienna, Austr...

Except maybe when it's bombs that are not only being educated but also handed out to Bush’s dubious Middle East allies like it was a cle...

Lee Majors: $6 million – Elvis Presley: priceless ( pic from Tom Sutpen )

I will confess that I avoided the State of the Union address like the black death. I have enough misery, disappointment, and hypocrisy in my...

"...sex isn't everything." (Now read on)

Valerie points out how, two weeks ago, I was kinda of mean to Dita Von Teese when in fact she might actually be doing something quite useful...

I found this gem in my web travels and, yes, well, I guess it does have a point. It also avoids STDs too, I suppose, but what effect it migh...

I have always been drawn to the romantic concept of the Victorian opium den, which I imagine, of course, filled with colors, wafting fans, o...

Try it! You might like it! Checkout DOCTUBE

Charles Stross is an eminent science fiction author and also runs Charlie’s Diary , and excellent and superior blog. Recently he ...

Someone has posted a delightful clip of me holding forth a couple of years ago about the shambles that became the 1970 Isle of Wight rock fe...

I’ve had a lot of writing to do of late so Doc40 has been heavy on links and pictures and kinda shy on original text, but I hope I’ll be abl...

Really needs no other tribute beyond this. Click here. (Thanks Nance)

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 ...