Wednesday, April 24, 2013

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS COMPLIANT

On September 11th 2001 I had a reasonably heavy cold and had decided to spend the day in bed.  I was self-medicating with a bottle of milk from the Kentucky cow when the telephone rang.  It was Tim Matthews, the notorious British ufologist.  "Don't say a thing, switch on BBC1.  I'll 'phone you back!" he said, and rang off.  I did as I was told. Stunned, I watched the horrific events at the World Trade Centre.  That was 12 years ago.  This evening, I re-read the final chapters of Nelson DeMille's novel Nightfall.  This is a gripping thriller which ends with most of the protagonists being killed at the Twin Towers, and I re-lived my own experiencing of that dreadful day. 
 
Nelson DeMille is one of my favourite authors  and for no particular reason, I am re-reading his 'John Corey' novels, basically in order.  However, last night, I was hit - once again - by the true enormity of human tragedy of that terrible day.  Somehow, from the safety of my little house in North Devon, cushioned by brandy, an intermittent conversation about family matters with my beloved mother-in-law, and the BBC IPlayer Nick Drake tribute, the event seemed more terrible, even more horrific, and DeMille's writing seemed even more spot on.  I don't know why I'm telling you this, because the blogs I write are either about cryptozoology or about rock music, but Nightfall - like the others in the series - is a bitching good book, and DeMille, if you have not heard of him, is an author who will repay investigation.  That's all. 
 
 
 
 
 
King Crimson live in Hyde Park, 1969, supporting the Stones
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*  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
 
* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest guv!

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cats?
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