I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN

It's been nearly a week since Christmas now

and I still don't understand how
the time can go so bloody fast
and all the holidays are passed

 

and so it's sunday once again
and time to lift conceptual pen
and do the Gonzo blogs in verse
(never mind, it could be worse)

 

And I suppose I should explain
its not because I've gone insane
once a week I write the rhymes you see
purely because it amuses me

 

Monday to Saturday in this place
I write in prose, sometimes po-faced
but on Sunday I like to be daft
and stupid rhymes always make me laugh

 

We start off now with a big bang
an opera from Corky Laing
which covers everything from ethics
to the freakier end of genetics
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/corky-laing-ongoing-saga-of-drummer.html

 

Death is something we all expect
but when it's someone we respect
the Gonzo blog people and I
like to take time to say goodbye

 

(There was no way I could find a convincing rhyme for Sir Richard Rodney Bennett)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-sir-richard-rodney.html

 

Last night I hchganced to happen upon
a video of Jon Anderson
I think it comes from Costa Rica
but let me know and take a peek - uh
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/jon-anderson-does-anyone-know-where.html

 

A review of a great Pantomime
from a favourite Gonzogirl of mine
come on folk, just take a look
at this essay from Ms McCookerybook
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/helen-mccookerybook-pantomime-review.html

 

I choose a Track of the Day for you
based on whom I'd like to listen to
and so today you all can hear,
Annie Haslam singing 'Ave Maria'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-annie-haslam.html

 

And finally, regular readers know it
each day we visit the World Poet
whose poetry is really fine
and light years far ahead of mine
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.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 which he shares with various fish and batrachians. 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?