THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS FRUSTRATED

Yesterday was a peculiar one. Back in February I had my eyes tested and was told that I had some of the symptoms of glaucoma, and that I needed to go to North Devon District Hospital for a checkup. My Grandmother had glaucoma, and went blind as a result, so I have been worried about this appointment for several months. As it turns out, I don't have the condition (yet) although there are a few mildly worrying symptoms in each eye. However, I have been assured that even if I do develop it, they will be able to nip it in the bud very quickly and effectively. After all, my grandmother went blind half a century ago, and even in the Downes family, half a century is a long time. Various things went wrong yesterday in my absence, and I would like to apologise to both Dale Drinnon and Thom the World Poet, and to assure them (and you) that normal service has resumed.

Anyone who has visited us over the past few years will have met Cromwell the pike, who has been residing in the big show tank up in the museum. He has recently reached sexual maturity, and is getting far too feisty for his tank, and this afternoon Richard and Graham will be taking him down to a tributary of The Torridge to release him. Stroxworthy River will now have a new and very volatile resident.

The Gonzo Track of the Day is from Rick Danko and Richard Manuel
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-richard-manuelrick.html

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_9.html

John Shuttleworth review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/review-john-shuttleworth-out-of-our.html

Made in Brum revue review (ho ho)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/link-review-made-in-brum-jasper-carrott.html

Eric Burdon review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/eric-burdon-review.html

Portuguese interview with The Green Violinist
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/portuguese-interview-with-green.html

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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

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*  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?