THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS GETTING WET

Many apologies to Judge Smith. I was in the middle of a conversation with him about his new book when the call waiting beep came through and I had to exit the conversation in a horribly peremptory manner. The problem is, that since I went temporarily deaf a few months ago I have had a special disability phone in the office. It is brilliant, and I cannot thank Helen T. enough for getting it for me, but it doesn't do call waiting, so I have to resort to the old-fashioned way. On the plus side, I am listening to the New Riders of the Purple Sage, which is always guaranteed to cheer anyone up.

We have now sold as many Weird Weekend tickets as we did lat year, but with a week to go. C'mon guys; buy some more and make an old anarchist very happy.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_6.html

Today's Track of the Day is from the New Riders of the Purple Sage
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-new-riders-of.html

Steve Howe interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/yes-and-no-steve-howe-steers-clear-of.html

A cutting from and about Helen McCookerybook
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/helen-mccookerybook-sunday-at-prince.html

Atkins/May Project review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/atkinsmay-review.html

Chanoyu Records newsletter
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/chanoyu-records-newsletter.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 two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange), 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 cat?