THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN GETS A LITTLE BIT FESTIVE (NO, THAT DOESN'T MEAN DRUNK)

The Gonzo Daily - Friday

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Well, we survived it! Mother, Graham and I went Christmas shopping in Barnstaple yesterday and pretty well got everything that we set out to do. I am now sitting in the office typing away merrily, listening to Lou Reed and John Cale's 'Songs for Drella' slightly too loud, realising happily that I don't have to leave the village for the rest of the year. I am about to spend the rest of the day working on the Christmas issue of Gonzo Weekly - it's a particularly good 'un. Apart from that my Yuletide festivities will mainly involve playing with the dogs and reading Cold-War-era thrillers by the fire. A modicum of port may also be consumed. Yesterday in Lidl I found two sorts of cheese I had never heard of before, and buying those made me a happy fellow. As I get older my needs become far more simple.

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_20.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is by Napoleon Murphy Brock
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-frank-zappa.html

 

Richard Herring ponders what life would be like if Roy Wood got his wish and it really was Christmas every day
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/richard-herring-ponders-what-life-would.html

 

A Yes vote for bombast
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-yes-vote-for-bombast.html

 

Barbara Dickson Live in Session
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/barbara-dickson-live-in-session.html

 

Althouse: Andy Warhol hated Frank Zappa.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/althouse-andy-warhol-hated-frank-zappa.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?