We have had a mild problem for the past twenty-four hours: my emails are
playing up. I can receive them but I can't send, so I am having to send through
an online service, which doesn't always get to where I hoped. So if you could
spread the word about today's postings I would be very grateful. I know roughly
what's wrong but it may not be fixed until Monday, so in the meantime most of my
communications will be via my lovely wife.
The fourth edition of the Gonzo Weekly newsletter goes out later today
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/newsletter-4.html
Kim Wilde drunkenly singing on a train. It has to be done.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/you-have-to-admit-that-this-is-peculiar.html]
A new feature - the Gonzo Daily 'Track of the Day'. Today, PPS with Taken
Dreams
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-taken-dreams.html
Part one of an exclusive interview with Michael Des Barres
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/exclusive-michael-des-barres-interview.html
Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html
Some free music from the lovely Ms McCookerybook
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/helen-mccookerybook-is-christmas-queen.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@eclipseco.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?
As it turns out, this is the only link ready for tomorrow. It is a Cedar
and Willow posting; very interesting and introduces a new/ old character, as well
as some more unlikely connections clarified:
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals', and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion it seems to us that - whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
A Lazarus species is one that is presumed to be extinct and then reappears. One example is the takahē; thought to have died out by 1898, it was rediscovered in 1948 by Dr. Geoffrey Orbell. Featured here is a personal account of his astonishing find. This article was originally published in the December 10, 1948 edition of the Listener.
We have had a mild problem for the past twenty-four hours: my emails are
playing up. I can receive them but I can't send, so I am having to send through
an online service, which doesn't always get to where I hoped. So if you could
spread the word about today's postings I would be very grateful. I know roughly
what's wrong but it may not be fixed until Monday, so in the meantime most of my
communications will be via my lovely wife.