I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN

I used to hate the winter; living in the city without much money, it was cold and grey and unforgiving, and not much else. But in the country it has its own savage beauty. That being said, it is so mild this year that although it is more pleasant to live through, I am seriously worried about the knock-on effects on the environment, especially to butterflies and flowers, who appear to need some degree of freezing during the winter months in order to develop to the optimum. I am still reading 'Electric Muse' and singing 'The Cutty Wren' to the orange cat. I quite like the winter.

Rob Ayling sent me this fascinating news release the other day. This definitely needs checking out
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/introducing-vicar.html

Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Mountain
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-mountain.html

Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_27.html

Paul May's festive music
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/countdown-from-christmas-paul-may.html

A revealing and honest story about Barbara Dickson. I have much the same condition, so I take my hat off to her
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/barbara-dickson-in-sunday-express.html

An interesting new side project for Jon Anderson
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-jeff-pevar-teams-with-yes-frontman.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 - imaginatively - 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?