The Gonzo Daily - Monday
On Saturday Saskia opened me another Facebook
account as Gonzo Jon, and much to my amazement, within an hour dozens of people
had friended me. I should warn you that this account is purely so I can get
someone else (Saskia, Lizzy or Graham) to do the notifications for the weekly
magazine if I am not around. I am expecting my first grandchild in September,
and will be away for some time, so I am trying to set up a mechanism so I can
still have my daily and weekly posts as simple as possible. So please DON'T
write to me on the Gonzo Jon account. I will hardly ever use it....
I do have some bad news I am afraid; a small
predator, either a rat or a weasel (I suspect the former) dug into the aviary on
Saturday night and killed the three remaining quail. I am upset, but apart from
getting Graham to repair the holes and make the aviaries as secure as possible
there is very little that I can do about it.
There are lots of other things as well, most of
which I can't talk about, but my heart is playing up again for the first time in
several years, probably as a result of all the trials and tribulations of the
past few weeks. I expect that it will calm down, as said stresses and strains
do, but watch this space.
Most peculiar mama
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#85) is here to
read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Raoni
Metuktire aka Chief Raoni and Clearlight on the front cover and features an
interview with Cyrille Verdeaux in which he discusses his work with this
legendary eco-warrior and Amerindian chief. Merrell Fankhauser recounts an odd
story about John Lennon and UFOs. There is an interview with Paul May about the
forthcoming Atkins/May Project album, Doug Harr visits Queen in San Jose, and
Rosie Curtis goes to a cosplay convention, whilst Jon muses about The Happy
Mondays. There are also new shows from Friday Night Progressive, and from the
multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and newts in shoes (OK, no unlikely shod caudata, 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!!!
The full list of artists featured is: Jack White,
Yes, Jon Anderson, Jon Davison, Robert Plant, Dave Grohl, Greg Allman, Bob
Dylan, Ian Gillan, Daevid Allen, Clepsydra, Michael des Barres, Merrell
Fankhauser, Arthur Brown, Spirit Thom, Galahad, The Who, Marillion, Strange
Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Annik Honore, Dermot Healy, Josephine
Pullein-Thompson, Wayne Henderson, Andre Popp, Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Hugh
Hopper, Mick Abrahams, Martin Guitars, Cyrille Verdeaux, Clearlight, Paul May,
Rosie Curtis, Queen, Happy Mondays, Hawkwind, Scott Walker, Beatles, 1D, Cher,
Iggy Pop, Weird Weekend, Joanne Hogg & Frank Van Essex, Lava Engine,
Ancillotti, Blaze, Subway to Sally
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo
Weekly:
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you
have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly
dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power
chaps, we have to share it!
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* The
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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 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?
Unlike some of our competitors we are not going to try and blackmail you into donating by saying that we won't continue if you don't. That would just be vulgar, but our lives, and those of the animals which we look after, would be a damn sight easier if we receive more donations to our fighting fund. Donate via Paypal today...
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
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