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Thursday, January 24, 2013
I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
What a Day!! I was up bright and early and
feeling relatively sane, and came downstairs with a cheerful spring in my step!
OK that last line is a lie; I was shuffling along like an old git propped up on
my walking stick as ever, but I had a conceptual spring in my step. I switched
on my computer and went online, and managed to download about 2/3 of my emails
before the internet connection conked out. It has been intermittent all day
until now, but the peculiar thing is that when we telephoned BT, they had no
knowledge of the outages. We therefore assumed it was all down to our fairly
ropey equipment, but throughout the day we have been receiving news that
everyone that we have spoken to in North Devon, and other folk across the
country, even as far abroad as Rob Ayling up in the frozen north have told me
that they have also had patchy internet access. How about you guys out in
readersville?
Michael Des Barres is someone's video du jour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-video-du-jour-michael-des-barres.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-video-du-jour-michael-des-barres.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-eric-burdon-review.html
News of the new Eric Burdon album
News of the new Eric Burdon album
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-john-martyn-may.html
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from the late John Martyn
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from the late John Martyn
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html
Another of our daily visits to the incomparable Thom the World Poet
Another of our daily visits to the incomparable Thom the World Poet
The Gonzo Daily is late (but you knew that
anyway)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/gonzo-blog-updates-will-be-late-today.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/gonzo-blog-updates-will-be-late-today.html
Despite the unintentional tardiness we are feeling
somewhat chuffed today
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/blowing-our-own-trumpet.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/blowing-our-own-trumpet.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: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* 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: http://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 53 who - together with his orange cat puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish and batrachians. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish and batrachians. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (CFZ)
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that - whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot, or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean Zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.- Leucistic mandarin duck in Yorkshire
- Midwest City officials prepare strategy to discour...
- Spoon-billed sandpiper survival given hope by disc...
- Team who rediscovered taiko reunite to celebrate
- That's one thrush not in a rush! Bird chooses unus...
- Chhattisgarh to have its first bird sanctuary soon...
- Viral video may have sparked bird shootings
- Marcia Davis: Crow patrol works bird feeder beat
THE BLOG IS LATE TODAY
EARLIER GRAHAM WROTE: We're having internet connection problems today, and blog updates will be delayed.
We're currently "working the issue" (as the techies say), so do call back a bit later....
12:48 lunchtime, Thursday
What a Day!! I was up bright and early and feeling relatively sane, and came downstairs with a cheerful spring in my step! OK that last line is a lie; I was shuffling along like an old git propped up on my walking stick as ever, but I had a conceptual spring in my step. I switched on my computer and went online, and managed to download about 2/3 of my emails before the internet connection conked out. It has been intermittent all day until now, but the peculiar thing is that when we telephoned BT, they had no knowledge of the outages. We therefore assumed it was all down to our fairly ropey equipment, but throughout the day we have been receiving news that everyone that we have spoken to in North Devon, and other folk across the country, even as far abroad as Rob Ayling up in the frozen north have told me that they have also had patchy internet access. How about you guys out in readersville?
We're currently "working the issue" (as the techies say), so do call back a bit later....
12:48 lunchtime, Thursday
What a Day!! I was up bright and early and feeling relatively sane, and came downstairs with a cheerful spring in my step! OK that last line is a lie; I was shuffling along like an old git propped up on my walking stick as ever, but I had a conceptual spring in my step. I switched on my computer and went online, and managed to download about 2/3 of my emails before the internet connection conked out. It has been intermittent all day until now, but the peculiar thing is that when we telephoned BT, they had no knowledge of the outages. We therefore assumed it was all down to our fairly ropey equipment, but throughout the day we have been receiving news that everyone that we have spoken to in North Devon, and other folk across the country, even as far abroad as Rob Ayling up in the frozen north have told me that they have also had patchy internet access. How about you guys out in readersville?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Today
is, in the Catholic church, the feast day of St Cadoc. Cadoc was, according to
some accounts, one of the keepers of the holy grail when king Arthur and his
knights were questing about for it.
And now
the news:
“More tea, Saladin?”. “Rather. Shall we drink it
from the... Holy grail?”: