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The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday

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Last year was universally described as the worst summer ever for British butterflies. This year, despite a very late and cold spring has been probably the best butterfly summer for at least ten years. We have also had the most exciting butterfly immigrants for considerably longer than that. It appears that the mainland race of the swallowtail (P. maechon. gorganus) which became extinct in the UK in the early 19th Century has bred here this year no less than three times - in Dorset, Sussex and Somerset. Those of us who daydream about such things wonder whether it could become properly established again.

 

On top of that I have received three lots of post which threaten to distract me away from the paths of righteousness: A DVD about the UK Counterculture in the 60s, and another DVD about Duane Allman (thanks to Rob J for those two) and volume three of Roland Smiths' excellent 'Cryptid Hunters' novels, featuring a hero which he admits is based very vaguely on yours truly.

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is by Jefferson Starship
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gonzo-track-of-day-jefferson.html

 

German Merrell Fankhauser review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/german-merrell-fankhauser-review.html

 

Manchester UK's Crystal Grenade Explores The Darker Side Of Life On Debut Album 'Lo! And Behold'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/manchester-uks-crystal-grenade-explores.html

 

Michael Des Barres Show 09-19-2013
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/michael-des-barres-show-09-19-2013.html

 

Stevce Hackett interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/10/steve-hackett-interview-with-prog.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: www.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?