The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
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What
has Jon Downes got in common with a large marine reptile such as a leatherback
turtle? The leatherback turtle or luth is the largest known testudine in the
world today, and - although it breeds in the tropics, comes often to the North
Atlantic, even within the Arctic Circle, as part of its natural life cycle.
Gigantothermy (sometimes called ectothermic
homeothermy) is a phenomenon with significance in biology and paleontology,
whereby large, bulky ectothermic animals are more easily able to maintain a
constant, relatively high body temperature than smaller animals by virtue of
their smaller surface area to volume ratio. A bigger animal has proportionately
less of its body close to the outside environment than a smaller animal of
otherwise similar shape, and so it gains heat from, or loses heat to, the
environment much more slowly. I am 6'7" tall and over 24 stone. When the weather
is as hot as it is at the moment it takes so long for me to cool down, that I
often don't get to sleep until dawn.
That's why the blogs are late at the
moment.
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#87) is now
available to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Daevid Allen
on the front cover an an article about the Glissando Orchestra's healing Drones
for Daevid which seem to have worked miraculous results. It also includes an
exclusive interview with Harry Williamson on the subject. Elsewhere in the issue
Doug Harr interviews the founding members of Brand X and Erik Norlander gives us
a very generous present. There are also new shows from the wonderfully
eccentric Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, and from the multi-talented Neil
Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews
and toads with booze (OK, no alcoholic anurans, 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!!!
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo
Weekly:
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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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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 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?
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
