THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HOPS AND SKIPS

The Gonzo Daily - Monday

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I have never liked the transition period before going  away, whether its for an expedition or for something more mundane. I know that some people experience a frisson of excitement, but to me it is always horribly reminiscent of the last day of the school holidays before I went back to boarding school. I didn't mind being at boarding school too much, although the concept that they were the 'happiest days of my life' is lost on me and on the whole, being at home wasn't too bad either (as long as my father and I were on speaking terms, which we usually weren't) but the day before the journey back to my crappy little alma mater was sheer, unadulterated hell.

Of course today isn't anything like that, but there seems to be a million and a half things to do: blogs to be written in advance, kittens to be packed into their travelling crate and sent to Helen's house, animals to be fed and instructions given to Graham, the hire car to be collected, Mother's packing to be supervised, and - in the middle of all this - Graham is trying to finish my tax return. Bloody hell, I will be glad when this is all over.

Thank you to everyone who makes kind remarks about my stupid poetry on the occasions that I take it into my head to do both the CFZ and the Gonzo blogs in rhyme (the same rhyme with a few words changed). Especial thanks to Faye Rutherford who thinks that Dr Seuss has nothing on me! That is very kind of you m'dear, but I have never approached the lyrical genius of 'Green Eggs and Ham', nor, sadly, am I likely to. Whereas I have loved Kipling's poetry since I was about six, Dr Seuss was the poet I first admired, and that admiration has never gone away.

By the way, people, I am also the editor of the rather wonderful Gonzo Weekly, a free, anarchic music magazine featuring all sorts of groovy stuff. To make sure that you don't miss your copy of the next issue make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe:
http://eepurl.com/r-VTD

Classic album defined hippy era
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/classic-album-defined-hippy-era.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: TOM NEWMAN Nowhere To go
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-tom-newman.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_27.html

Brand X/Percy Jones reviews
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/brand-xpercy-jones-reviews.html

Belgian review of Gary Windo
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/belgian-review-of-gary-windo.html

MISS CRYSTAL GRENADE: "....is this the most lyrically developed vocal artist since Tori Amos?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/01/miss-crystal-grenade-is-this-most.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?