The Gonzo Daily - Saturday (yes I know it is well
early but read on)
And so we come to the end of another week, and
Corinna and I are labouring long and hard to get this issue of the magazine
finished so that we can get going tomorrow morning. We are visiting my
stepdaughter Olivia, her delightful other half Aaron and my Grand-daughter
Evelyn, and after spending a couple of days with them, we shall be visiting my
other stepdaughter Shoshannah and her husband Gavin. However, as the first of
them lives in Norwich, the second in Staffordshire, and we live deep in the
bowels of darkest Devonshire just a few miles from the Cornish border I think
that you will agree that we have a heck of a journey ahead of us over the next
few days which is why this magazine will be gracing your inboxes earlier than
usual.
However, making things even more complicated, I got
a message on Facebook earlier this afternoon. It was from our quondam intern
Saska, who is still a much loved member of our extended family. She had just
taken delivery of an injured baby pigeon. Would we have it? The answer is, of
course, yes. So in the kitchen in a plastic faunabox designed for pet
cockroaches is a very small, and voraciously hungry ball of fluff. We have
dressed its wounds, fed it and watered it, and named it ‘Dodo’ because we have
no idea what gender it is, and it resembles - more than anything - a miniature
dodo. These flightless birds which were persecuted to extinction about 350 years
ago were giant flightless pigeons, and looking the baby in our kitchen you can
see that this classification makes a lot of sense. The prognosis is poor
because it was rescued from Saskia’s grandmother’s cat, but when the universe
gives you something to look after it is meet, right and one’s bounden duty to do
one’s best for it.
So driving up the motorway tomorrow to spend a week
touring the country will be me, Corinna, Mother, and quite possibly - if the
universe decides to spare its life - Dodo the pigeon.
So mote it be.
Hawkwind, Tempest, Eliza Carthy, Daevid Allen, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans
had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#118) will soon available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Dave Brock from Hawkwind on the front cover, and an an exclusive interview
with him by Rob Ayling inside. Doug Harr reports on Celtic Rock band Tempest and
we send Eliza Carthy to a Desert Island, making it the first time we have ever
sent anyone with an MBE to the island. There are shows from Strange Fruit and
from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers
are still lost at sea, although I have been assured that they will hit land
again soon. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews
and pademelons trying to choose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials having
difficulty in making choices, 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:
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 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
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* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat 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 infantile orange cat?
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?_fr_--_harpie.PNG)