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The Gonzo Daily - Friday

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My parents were peculiar people. When I was a boy there were certain people whose names were never to be spoken in the house. The Duke of Windsor was one. Gandhi was another. "You know he was terribly anti British", my Mother would say in hushed tones. And another was Nelson Mandela. They were more vehement about him than they were about Gerry Adams (probably because he was black). My relationship with my parents was so bad that this fact alone would have probably made me a Mandela fan overnight. But by most people's standards he was a great man, and even by my parents' standards he was an important one. Now the Grand Old Man of African politics is dead after nearly a century of struggle. Rest in Peace, sir.

 

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_6.html

 

Today's Track of the Day is an appropriate one for the day.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day.html

 

Robert Wyatt in Blurt Magazine
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/robert-wyatt-in-blurt-magazine.html

 

Irish Actor Gabriel Byrne Talks Pope Francis with Michael Des Barres
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/irish-actor-gabriel-byrne-talks-pope.html

 

Frank Zappa’s Gnarly Mixed Feelings About “Valley Girl”
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/frank-zappas-gnarly-mixed-feelings.html

Touring: The Crimson ProjeKCt Takes On Europe in Spring
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/touring-crimson-projekct-takes-on.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

 

* 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?