The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
There are days I feel that I've had enough
there
is always someone there to have a go at me
and today I feel particularly
rough
with a load more people grabbing rocks to throw at me
The Weird Weekend has always been planned
as an
event to bring people together
but now it's all got out of hand
as the
rumour mill works hell for leather
And Facebook makes the whole thing worse
it adds
immediacy to it all,
as in less time than it takes to write this
verse
someone can comment on their wall
And I am always told I really should
just learn
to grow a thicker skin,
you think I wouldn't if I could?
but I don't know
how to begin
and I don't know how to forget
or to understand
the inate dichotomy
cos if I poke my head over the parapet
someone is
bound to take a pop at me
So forgive me friends if today I moan
rather
than chat cheerfully about my dogs
but I am feeling very much alone,
and I
still have to write my blogs
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#83) is here to
read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Stonehenge on
the front cover and features a previously unpublished account of the first
Stonehenge Festival from Wally Hope, Dead Fred's claim that 1974 WASN'T the
first 'Henge Festie. There are memories of Stonehenge Festivals between
1974-1984, an interview with James Lowe of the Electric Prunes, and Erik
Norlander's tribute to Bob Moog. There are also new shows from the peculiar
multiverse of Sub Reality Sandwich, from Friday Night Progressive, and from the
multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and Irish Stews (OK, no mutton and vegetable based
concoctions, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you
can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!
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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several
others) is an old hippy of 54 who - together with an orange kitten named after a
song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?
What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?