Doc 40

IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTS (712) BOARD (just over there>>>)... I really don’t recall ever being on a bill with Chas and Dave, but,...

IT’S 2008, OKAY? (ALL ACROSS THE USA) Seems like the 2008 Presidential Election is underway already. I’m no great Hillary Clinton admirer, b...

BEFORE EVEN THERE WAS EDDIE COCHRAN ... Mercifully the English are obsessive about preserving cultural minutiae otherwise we would have miss...

I MEANT TO POST THIS ON SUNDAY But the weekend grew hectic and the world again turned into one giant movie promotion with live ammunition, a...

WARNING, MICK FARREN, WARNING! So there I am, it’s 8.40 and I’m watching back-to-back reruns of Law & Order , scratching my feet and ref...

WHAT ME WORRY? Michael Jackson walks, and do I worry? Actually I’m kinda glad. I spent too much of my youth listening for the ominous bellow...

ONE CANNOT HELP BUT THINKING Smoking marijuana rather than ranting about it, one I cannot help thinking. I just watched Kevin Spacey in Beyo...

SOME OPTIMISM FROM MUNZ (HA-HA) I received the following from Munz regarding yesterday’s post... Mick: Obviously I share your half-century f...

ANNE BANCROFT -- RIP

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I’VE HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP Yesterday the Supreme Court handed the Federal Government and the DEA ove...

A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT After a plate of Chinese hors d’oeuvres, and inhaling too many paint fumes (don’t ask), I found myself in the ...

THE BIG OLD COMMENTS BOARD IS BACK, AND MANY THANKS TO, AND A BIG HAND FOR FUNTOPIA RICH FOR ALL HIS HELP AND INVESTIGATION.

Again I have the feeling of living in a damaged starship.

COMMUNICATIONS From some girl... it's "felt." mark felt. not feld. so we would not confuse the two, i don't think. but, wo...

HA! So Deep Throat finally came out of the closet and into Vanity Fair , revealing himself to be Mark Feld (not to be confused with the real...

D-BRANE THE HARD WAY To explain the process of protracted fiction to anyone who has never so engaged is not easy, and I’ve always considered...

READ WHILE I WRITE As I steam, majestic and half mad, to end of this novel that has taken over my life – no, I’m writing it, not reading it ...

A GEOGRAPHY LESSON (OR MAYBE GEO-POLITICAL) Every one paying attention? Okay, so click on this map take a look and then come back... http://...

UP THE WORKERS!

SO WHERE WAS DOC LAST WEEK? A moment of calm comes in the production of a work of fiction when (the author hopes) it becomes clear that it i...

YES, I'VE BEEN WORKING LIKE A MANIAC, BUT THE BOOK CONFLAGRATION IS ALMOST FINISHED AND THERE WILL BE A MASSIVE POSTING OF ALL THAT IS B...

HOW THEY BROUGHT THE REAL BAD NEWS If this is true, and the oil has peaked, THEY know it, and are preparing for the next phase. Which is t...

STILL REACTING TO RATZINGER Looking at first responses to Pope Ratzinger, I still haven’t formulated my reaction except a quaint old-fashion...

JUST IN TIME FOR ADOLF’S BIRTHDAY Hey, not only do we have a Pope, but one whose formative philosophies were formed in the Hitler Youth. Thi...

DAN DARE NEVER HAD THESE PROBLEMS I can only reflect that this modern wonderworld of high technology seems to be higher maintenance than hav...

I MUST HAVE MORE POWER TO THE SHIELDS, MR SCOTT! I have failed to achieve much this weekend because my computer has been under intense and c...

WEEKENDEST LINKS APOCALYPSE NOW...OOOPS...CHRISTIANITY TODAY This is all getting a tad absurd. I mean, I don’t mind my stuff being reprinted...

CYBER-EGO An ego can be a terrible burden. It demands to be supported by unreasonable and near-obsessional courage, an impossible workload, ...

TWO QUOTES AND A LINK " The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, pers...

AT A GUESS, I FIGURE THUS PRETTY MUCH MEANS IT’S ALL OVER... First the story, (in the chaos of concluding Conflagration The Novel, I have fo...

GET THE FAITH OUTTA HERE! ...is the title of my piece on religion and media in this weeks LA CityBeat , and, I hope, it may be of some passi...

OH POPE While the Papacy continues to inundate my TV, making me grateful for the reruns of Law & Order , and not even History Channel is...

NEIL YOUNG -- GET WELL SOON!

SUBLIMINAL COMMUNIST CHUCKIE I found this tale from Canada while wandering the web. (Not quite as lonely as a cloud, but definitely floating...

ON POPE TO CROAK (And here’s where all the lapsed Catholics take guilty offence.) The death of the Pope is going to be yet another massive m...

STRING HAS SPRUNG Still working on finishing the damned novel. (Or maybe novel of the damned – what else is new?) But last night found me sp...

DAYS AND DOLLARS The last couple of days have been unrelenting work. A column for LA CityBeat on the religious revolution, a retrospective ...

( NEW COMMENTS SYSTEM – SEE YESTERDAY ) FRIDAY? GOOD? THANK GOD IT’S SATURDAY Good Friday, and first I read a note from kaymo – Been down in...

IT WOULD SEEM THAT, TO POST A COMMENT, CLICK THE TINY "COMMENT" AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH POST, AND THEN "POST A COMMENT" ON...

COMMENTS NOW SEEM TO HAVE CHANGED. (THE OLD BEAT UP BOARD HAS VANISHED). YOU NOW HAVE A KIND OF DOUBLE ACTION THING AT THE END OF EACH POST....

DID I MENTION ALREADY THAT THE WORD SEEMS TO BE GOING INSANE? Over on the comments board Billy Oblivion has clued us in on how the Brits are...

REPRINTS, REPRINTS, REPRINTS I keep finding stuff of mine reprinted on the web. Lately it’s been the things I do for LA CityBeat . I know wr...

MAD ON THE EQUINOX I have been attempting not to get violent, disgusted, or sick over this whole Schiavo keep-the-brain-dead-alive bullshit ...

ABSINTHE, DOMINATION AND A CORSET CATALOGUE Having decided that all was lost (see below – "Maybe we simply have to accept that we’re an...