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The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

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It actually mildly surprises me that no-one has questioned why I use the same words (these wot you are reading now) to introduce both the Gonzo blogs and the CFZ ones. It's not because I am too lazy to write two sets of intros (not usually, anyway) but there are two much more fundamental reasons. One is simply that a large proportion of readers are interested in both subjects and that this helps cross collateralize both sets of blogs, but the other is more primal. It is that the subject matter of both sets of writings are surprisingly similar; it is the search for integrity and something positive in an increasingly negative world. Both Gonzo and the CFZ do our best to present things of value in an increasingly trite and throwaway world, and I - for one - think that is of paramount importance. In fact, if I didn't, I wouldn't bother to do either.

On another subject, 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.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_25.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Showaddywaddy
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-showaddywaddy.html

Stephen Stills live with The Rides
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-rides-featuring-stephen-stills.html

The return of King Crimson
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/king-crimson-is-back.html

Singled Out: Corky Laing and the Perfect Child
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/singled-out-corky-laing-and-perfect.html

Looking Forward to the Yes UK tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/prog-rock-legends-yes-hit-road-with.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?