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The Gonzo Daily - Monday

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There are a lot of misconceptions about this time of year. It should be a joyous family occasion when we get together with our loved ones and celebrate the birth of Our Lord. But sadly, oh too often, it is a time when more people are lonely, desolate and desperate than any other time of the year. Thirteen years ago today, distraught at the collapse of my first marriage and various other things that I won't go into here, I took what I hoped was an overdose of methadone. However, I had already comfort eaten an enormous pizza and consumed large amounts of bourbon and coke so I was almost immediately gloriously sick. I woke the next morning with the mother of all headaches and thanked God that my plans had been thwarted. Seven years later to the day another member of my family was less lucky (or more successful, depending on your point of view). The scars on my family caused by his self-inflicted death have never healed, nor are they likely to. For some people Christmas is the most horrible and desolate time of the year.

Remember this, and if you can stretch out a hand of friendship to someone who needs it at this time, please do so. And I speak from experience. But that is enough of the sermonising. My brother is the clergyman in my family, and I am just the fat bloke who looks for animals that no-one has ever heard of and writes about rock music.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_23.html

Today's Track of the Day is by George Harrison
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-holiday-track-of-day-george.html

Former King Crimson Guitarist Trey Gunn Hit By Motorcycle in India
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/former-king-crimson-guitarist-trey-gunn.html

Frank Zappa infographic
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/frank-zappa-infographic.html

Eric Burdon Is Exhausted, Cancels Ryman and Grimey’s Appearances
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/eric-burdon-is-exhausted-cancels-ryman.html

Documentary of Ralph Steadman — Hunter S. Thompson’s illustrator — to debut in Louisville weeks before national release
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/news-dennie-humphrey-gonzofest-hunter-s.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?