Doc 40

This comes from the blog of our pal Peromyscus … “The Devil is selling Robert Johnson's soul on eBay. Apparently he (the Prince...

Our really good friend Aeswiren has sent the following highly informative comments on my LA CityBeat Obama cover story. (See last Thursday....

To offset the absurdity of Palin, for retro-romance, and for other mysterious reasons know only to Google, here’s a picture of Elizabeth Tay...

After weeks of conducting arcane and darkly sinister rituals to make Sara Palin go back to the elk and the frozen tundra (well, they worked ...

HCB sent over this logo from the new de luxe Elvis Presley record label.

Here's my take on the problems confronting our brand new president -- and maybe some of the solutions. Click here The secret word is n...

(In fact, the FBI should be inside the White House right now, guarding the valuables. Bush will petulantly fuck up everything he can, and Ch...

Uncle Bill is pleased with the outcome of the election, but then he sees the picture of Franz Kafka looking at him and has to turn away.

A FUCKING LANDSLIDE! MORE THAT I DARED HOPE!

"What kind of bloody title is The Quantum of Solace ? It sounds like a Czech art film about a pregnant waitress."

Finally, after all the harangue, hard work, worry, wonder, disbelief, alarms, and absurdity, the 2008 US presidential election comes down to...

In which Marilyn, after being tediously trapped on either side by the Well Groomed Men In The Cheap Seats, discovers to her delight that her...

VO T E Yeah, vote once, vote twice, vote like Homer. Click here to watch . (Courtesy of Munz.)

“This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications have been s...

My Obama opus for LA CityBeat will soon be finished and, after I’ve rested up a little, what is laughing called normal ser...

VO T E

(Thanks Joly)

For the rest of this week I shall be working on a cover story for LA CityBeat which urges President-elect Barack Obama to be as radical as ...

Uncle Bill is not happy with the early bird special. It lacks tacos. But at least he has a drink and a cigarette. But, joking aside, for tho...

I must confess I write through something of a hangover. Indeed, a hangover on a scale that makes a vintage-retro STD warning poster seemed a...

Tomorrow (Saturday) I will be taking part in a reading for The Book Of Lists Horror , at Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Avenue, Los Ange...

“ Click here and make of it what you will.” (Sent by our pal Iggy) Puzzled new readers should scroll back for previous episodes of The Adven...

They reach for the Versace Machine Gun (figuring, with the inexplicable logic of wealth, it’s a case of use it or lose it.) We also snidely ...

Doug the Bass contributed this definite sign of the times, but I do recall some years ago how a English girl played the same scam. The story...

The Doc40 Fund Raiser grinds on. Thanks a kilo to all the fine friends who have made lean-time contributions, and you could become one of th...

The following nice note arrived from the Natural Resources Defense Council ... "Dear Mick, We just got life-saving news for the last 37...

Except that, if I'm going to come through this election with my sanity intact, I may have to turn off the TV. "Liberals hate real...

(and don't even show Palin the silo.) The secret word is DEFCON

Yes, this is it. The big one. The tour that ended in rock & roll’s first fatal tragedy.

In response to the yesterday’s post from Munz, Faux Smoke sent the following controversial thesis that Jesus Christ may also have been a sto...

In the course of my web wanderings, I discovered this website with links to free downloads of the one single by Lunar ...

In which Marilyn, after two martinis and three Nembutal have caused a momentary lapse of her normal vigilance, and lulled her into believing...

A couple of days ago friends showed up with six-packs of something called Flying Dog Porter. I actually prefer a lighter beer, but since the...

And sticking with the theme of intoxication, Munz sent over the following story from the London Daily Telegraph that indicates the use of p...

Our pal TPG sent the following report from The Guardian of London. Seems like a steam punk version of rock & roll has evolved over in t...

Uncle Bill drives the kids off his lawn with extreme prejudice. (Pic lifted from Sibling Shot )

Inanimate pornography! The secret phrase is Think About It

Elf Hellion sent this report of mixed portents… "DUBLIN, Ireland - The race is over as far as Ireland's biggest bookmaker i...

As today’s news cycle progressively revealed that perhaps Joe the Plumber (Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher) is not quite the Joe Six Pack entrepr...

“What do you mean there's a depression and you can’t afford to give me a goddamned cracker?”

Gene Vincent by Ray Lowry. Bernard Slater wrote... "Sad news Mick, used to buy NME for you , Kent, Charlie Shaar and Lowry." All I...

Click here (And now I go watch the final debate.)

…this is absurd. The secret word is Phew

People have been asking how come the free download of my ancient rock novel The Tale Of Willy’s Rats (with it’s hideous cover) hasn’t been ...

Every few days, I get an email telling me I have a message on My Space. The problem is that I don’t have any truck with My Space. I did ...

In the middle of all the propagandist furor over Bill Ayres, maybe a little background wouldn’t be amiss. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby ...

More terrorists? The secret word is History

I've never previously removed a link from Doc40 except where a website had vanished or was out of business, but I don’t feel inclined to...

It may actually be a one of the natural laws of high anxiety. When things start looking good for a change, we cast around for reasons for it...