The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
The saga of the dessicator goes on and on, and gathers momentum like a
great big snowball of opinions as it does so. To recap - for those of you not
aware of the story so far: The other day I was talking to Max about making one's
own dried tomatos and raisins, and he mentioned in passing that he had a friend
with a dessicator. That very night I drank the first alcohol I had drunk for
ages because I have been on antibiotics, and got mildly sloshed. Whilst looking
for something completely different I saw a dessicator remarkably cheap on eBay
and - feeling remarkably pleased with myself - tried to tell Corinna about it,
despite the fact that she was fast asleep and it was three in the morning. She
was not impressed.
Sadly she was not impressed the next day either, so I wrote about it on
this bloggy bit, and then forgot about it. However I received a whole wallage of
comments some of which I reproduce here.
- Naomi writes: "A student suggested that you make a profit by selling "homemade raisins." That's a classic American answer."
- Steve writes: "Can't think why you'd want to make your own raisins, but I'd imagine a desiccator could be used for drying and preserving any fruit, so if you always have a glut of tomatoes, you could make your own dried tomatoes for use on pizza topping or in sauces. On the whole though, I'd have to say that a desiccator sounds like a gadget which gets used twice and then put in a cupboard and never used again."
- Dan writes: "Do not, if you happen to have access to a -80 degrees freezer and a freeze dryer, attempt to make freeze-dried banana slices. They taste and feel like banana-flavoured plastic".
When Dave B-P came over yesterday evening he was massively supportive of
the dessicator, as was Graham and Max when I told them. Corinna still thinks it
was a stupid waste of money, and - although I am looking forward to playing with
it - I have to admit that as my evening of revelry fades into the vague
interstices of my memory, I can think of fewer and fewer practical applications
for it. However, don't tell my lovely wife, or I shall never hear the end of
it.
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Gonzo Magazine #180
The Beltane issue is here so T Rex, The Who, Stonehenge, Steve Miller Band,
Flaming Groovies, John Blaney, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary
Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out! After what has been a
long and peculiar week, this issue features Doug musing on the spiritual message
of The Who, Jeremy going to see The Flaming Groovies, Alan on the Free
Stonehenge Campaign, John on the thorny subject of money,
and there
are radio shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, as well as the return
of Friday Night Progressive, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and
columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the
irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and pademelons ouyside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials
who have escaped from captivity, 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
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This issue features:
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Maloney's Mystery Hour, Billy Paul, Papa Wemba, Captain Beefheart, Brand X,
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Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
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by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, one totally coincidentally named after
one of the Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, puts it all together from
a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he
shares with various fish. 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, and the
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