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They say that deaths come in threes. Today is a very sad day - Dave Brubeck, Huw Lloyd Langton, and Ed Cassidy have all three died, and the vast majority of today's Gonzo blog has been set aside for us to remember them. May they rest in peace, and cherish the music that they gave us. In other news, all the books which needed to be uploaded have been uploaded. Sales of CFZ books are very slow at the moment, especially in America. Perhaps everyone is waiting to see whether the world actually will end on the 21st as some scholars of the Mayan calendar have intimated. Others have said that it will be a day of a great change in the consciousness of the human race. Me? I reckon that it will just be another friday, but we only have two more weeks until we find out for sure.

We start off today with a special visit to Thom the World Poet, who remembers Dave Brubeck and Ed Cassidy
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_77.html

We remember Ed Cassidy
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-loft-ed-cassidy-1923-2012.html

We remember Dave Brubeck, with a personal anecdote of Jon's
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-dave-brubeck-1920.html

Merrell Fankhauser remembers his old friend Ed Cassidy
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-merrell-fankhauser.html

The above four postings were done last night as the news broke. However, this morning there was an e-mail from Max Blake telling me that Huw had died as well
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-huw-lloyd-langton.html

To lift the mood slightly, here is a new song from the lovely Mimi Page
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-new-music-from-mimi-page-black-and.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?