For those who didn't get yesterday's update, there is good news. Martha the
pigeon is now in the main aviary after five months being hand reared by Corinna
and Graham in the kitchen. And the hedgehogs both survived hibernation, which is
good because the vast majority don't. However we gave them an insulated hutch,
food throughout the winter for is they woke up, and - most important of all - we
made sure their body weight was high enough to indicate that they had enough fat
reserves for the long sleep.
Last night I looked at the CFZ page on Wikipedia for the first time in a
year or so and found that half of it has been removed. There are no longer
separate entries for The Weird Weekend or CFZ Press, our list of books and
periodicals have been deleted, and the list of media appearances is confined to
a single entry: 'Penn and Teller's Bullshit', which we did for the money a
decade ago and which nobody would consider the brightest jewel in our
professional diadem. Whether this is deliberate spitefulness by someone who
believes that we should be taken down a peg or two, or whether it is just
officiousness by someone within the Wikimedia community I don't know. I don't
know what, if anything, I should do about it. I am minded to do nothing and
leave them to their own devices, but would welcome suggestions.
And my copy of the Bob Dylan album STILL hasn't arrived.
Frank Zappa, Ant-Bee, Rick Wakeman, Hawkwind, Daevid Allen, Jon Anderson,
Spurious Transients and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#120) is longer than ever at 96 pages and
will soon be available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Frank Zappa on the front cover with an interview with Billy James about his
relationship with FZ inside. Despite the fact that I said I would never do a
themed issue of this magazine, we carry on the Frank Zappa theme with looks at
biographies of the man, a critique of the new documentary DVD featuring FZ from
1969-1973, and exclusive excerpts from the new Frank Zappa book out on Gonzo.
But its not all FZ this issue. Graham goes to see Hawkwind in Warrington with
exclusive words and pix, Doug Harr reports on Rick Wakeman's King Arthur
reissues, and we send Gavin from Spurious Transients to a Desert Island. Neil
Nixon reports on an even stranger album than usual, Wyrd goes acoustic and Xtul
gets freakier than ever. And there are radio 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!!!
This issue features: Frank Zappa, Jack White, Don McLean, Joan Baez,
Passenger, Matt Johnson, Paul McCartney, Daevid Allen, Gong, Marillion, Ian
Mosley, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Patrick Whitefield, Jim McCann,
Wilhelm Rottger, Tommy James, Mick Abrahams, Firemerchants, Dee Palmer, Atkins
May Project, Wagner, Hawkwind, Karnataka, Paul Buff, Frank Zappa, Charli XCX,
Garth Brooks, 5 Seconds of Summer, Ed Sheeran, Billy James, Gavin Lloyd Wilson,
Spurious Transients, Focus, Hawkwind, Yes, Peter Banks, Alan White, Rick
Wakeman, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Bill Bruford, Tony Kaye, Xtul, Mamma cass
Eliot, Elvis, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, 1D, Lady Gaga, Neil Nixon,
Todd Rundgren, Nosdrama, Riverland, Children of Bodom, Jaldaboath
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!
* 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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!
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...
Wyrd artist and our good friend Mike Davis is in a song competition sponsored by Indi Beats. Make our day and .....
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology?
The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
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