THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN LOOKS FORWARD TO INTERACTING WITH A LOBSTER

The Gonzo Daily - Monday

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And so another week begins (yes, I know Sunday is the first day of the week, but you know what I mean). Yesterday was a little peculiar because of a mistake of mine which is impacting the rest of the week. As regular readers will know, for the last six years we have had a small colony of an unidentified species of cichlid, known only as Aequidens sp. Peru. The colony has been ruled with an iron fin by a huge male that I keep on thinking that I should give a name. A few weeks ago there was a big fight in the tank and when I came down one morning all the fish appeared to be dead, and we buried them all in the compost heap with a twinge of sadness. So yesterday, when i was telephoned by a charming lady called Melanie asking of we could give an emergency home to an 8in long cobalt blue freshwater lobster from New Guinea I said yes. They could go in the old cichlid tank, and the two spot gouramis which were the only inhabitants could be moved. I said as much to Graham who looked quizzically at me. "But what about those two?" he said, pointing at the quondam cichlid tank. I was just about to say something scathing about people who returned from a Hawkwind concert too befuddled to tell a light blue gourami from a dark brown cichlid, when I glanced in the direction he was pointing, and there - bold as brass - was the still un-named huge male, and there at the other side of the tank was a small but sexually mature female. How the hell I missed a large fish that is something like six inches long I have no idea, but it says something rather dubious about my powers of observation.

So today there is a complicated game of "shuffle the tanks" going to go on, as Corinna's cane toads go into a new Viv in the kitchen (under her Vietnamese stick insects) and an empty tank from the conservatory is brought inside for the delectation of the lobster, whose name (apparently) is "Lobby". Life is so much easier for people who limit their animal companions to a well behaved spaniel, or perhaps a goldfish.

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_9.html

Today's Track of the Day is by Weather Report
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-weather-report.html

Norfolk legend Wakeman's epic new journey
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/norfolk-legend-wakemans-epic-new-journey.html

When Chris Squire met Jon Anderson…THE STORY of YES!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/when-chris-squire-met-jon-andersonthe.html

Ten best Frank Zappa albums for people who think they hate Zappa
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/ten-best-frank-zappa-albums-for-people_9.html

The Byrds' Roger McGuinn and country artist Marty Stuart discuss joint tour ahead of Bethlehem stop
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-byrds-roger-mcguinn-and-country.html

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*  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

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*  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?