I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

And so it is saturday once again. My younger stepdaughter is 25 today and is currently sitting with her sister, boyfriend, mother and grandmother in the kitchen, while I toil over a hot keyboard. Today I shall be posting the second 'Gonzo Weekly' newsletter which will be completely different from how I had planned it because I haven't been able to do any interviews this week. I also have just put in an offer on a family of Chinese narrow mouthed frogs, and I hope to have good news on that front...

The news about Rick Wakeman's appearance at an arts festival in Gloucester next year, just gets better and better
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-news-about-rick-wakeman-in.html

The newly released second album by Atkins/May gets more and more fans
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/billing-itself-as-collision-between.html

Michael Des Barres has been nominated as having produced one of the coolest songs in the world this year. Go vote for him
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-coolest-songs-in-world-2012.html

Happy birthday to my lovely stepdaughter Olivia
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/happy-birthday-olivia.html

Yesterday Thom's poem was about the recent wave of self-immolations in China/Tibet, and it reminded me of a song on a similar theme by a fat hippy that you may have heard of
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/im-on-fire.html

Regular readers will have been following the ongoing debate about John and Yoko at the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus back in 1968. Now my brother-in-law joins the discussion
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/whole-lotta-yoko.html

And finally for today, our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem.html

The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...

The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginitavely - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link:http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?