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The Gonzo Daily - Thursday

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My friend Dr Chris Clark once was generous enough to describe me in a review of my 2004 book 'Monster Hunter' as: "the nearest thing we have to a real-life Professor Challenger", and I have spent much of the last nine years trying to be modest in the face of this. At the recent Weird Weekend, Judge Smith was kind enough to give me a copy of the complete Professor Challenger stories by Arthur Conan-Doyle, and last night I sat down with a cup of tea, and the orange kitten on my knee and started to read it for the first time in about thirty years. Professor Challenger has many good, nay excellent, points but he is also a bad tempered, irascible sociopath who doesn't take fools even slightly gladly and once threw a gin bottle at an annoying assistant's head. No, sorry that last one was me. Challenger also adores his wife who is one of the few people who gets away with telling him when he is behaving like an arse. Sorry Chris, I still don't see it

On another subject, as I said yesterday many readers of both blogs will know, or have met Margaret Rickard (Stuart's widow) and my next door neighbour for the last eight and a half years. She is seriously ill in hospital, and I would ask you all to remember her in your thoughts and prayers.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_26.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Zenit - a band of whom I am truly a fan
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-zenit-surrender.html

More on the return of King Crimson
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/more-on-return-of-king-crimson.html

Brian Appleton's  History Of The World In Three Darts
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/brian-appletons-history-of-world-in.html

Emily Laborde in Haight Ashbury
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/emily-laborde-in-haight-ashbury.html

Hawkwind for Indoor Festie at Minehead
gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/hawkwind-indoor-festival.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 - 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 54 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?