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Wednesday, August 24, 2016
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS BACK IN THE SADDLE
The Gonzo Daily - Monday
And so life continues its merry way. Chloe was here yesterday afternoon and
giggled uncontrollably when I told her that she had worked like a Trojan,
because apparently this means something to the current generation other than an
inhabitant of the noble and ancient city of Troy. Cassandra would be rolling in
her grave (probably with laughter). Apart from that, I have been doing a heck of
a lot of sleeping!
And now for the news................
Maggie Reilly Interview
Is there humour in the music of Van der Graaf Gene...
Dave Brock an Mr Dibs Hawkwind Interview March 201...
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Quantum [Gilli Smyth]
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if
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Gonzo Magazine #196
We talk to the mighty Paul May about his work on Al Atkins’ (ex Judas
Priest) anthology. Alan investigates glissando guitar, Doug goes to see
Radiohead, and Jon burbles on about John Lennon.
Funky eh?
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a
thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside 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 FREE!!!
This issue features:
John Lennon, Madness, Prince, Icarus Peel, John Blaneym Brimsley Schwarz,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Kenneth
George "Kenny" Baker, Ruby Wilson, David Enthoven, Barbara Gibb, The Boomtown
Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Paul May, Al Atkins, Radiohead, Alan Dearling,
Steve Hillage, Gong, Glissando Orchestra, Neil Nixon, The Beatles, Chris
Hadfield, Starmus Festival, Ken Gerhard, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Stacia,
Xtul, Cavern Club, James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Elvis, Devo, Brian Eno, Johnny
Cash
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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
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* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine
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it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also
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it at this link: www.gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk
* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
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
adventurous kittens?
MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Hong Kong spider folklore
On
July 28th 2016 (as I have done before) I posted a question on the
Hong History Forum Gwulo.com to Andrew Suddaby.” Do you remember any stories of
very rare or unexpected fauna whilst you were on Cheung
Chau?”
The
day after he replied ,under the heading, Cheung Chau
Fauna
Hello
Richard,
Sorry Richard,
my visits to Cheung Chau were always just for a day and I neither saw nor heard
any fauna on the island. I guess that I was usually too busy taking
phortographs of places, things and, when allowed, of people. In 1958 most
adults out of the city centre did not want to be photographed and I
tried to respect that. Children were quite different and would clamour to have
their pictures taken. I always tried to reward them with a few coins, sweets or
fruit such as bananas. If you did that nowadays they'd arrest you, which just
shows how sad a world we are living in now.
Anyway,
intrigued by your comment, I looked Cheung Chau fauna up on Google. The only
snakes that I have ever seen in the whole of Hong
Kong were:
1957/8 a cobra
skeleton draped on a barbed wire fence at the top of the Little Sai Wan camp
road junction with the Cape
Collinson Road
1957/8 a very
dead but beautifully coloured python that some small children found brushing
against their legs in the shallows at Shek O beach. The life guard rushed down
grabbed it and, I guess, took it home for his tea. No doubt thos toddlers
acquired an instant phoebia about snakes.
1957/8 a black
and white krait that slithered across the path on the way down from the
Temple
oif
c2004 I saw a
lovely little baby python on the path down at the Point at Little Sai Wan / Siu
Sai Wan. I took a photo of it, showed the snake to two ladies and one of
them promptly ground it into the concrete as they departed gleefully up the
path. Is this what slaying the dragon is all
about?
The same year, I
think, I was scrambling up a narrow and rough path between our sunbathing rocks
there and the Cape
Collinson
On many
occasions when I have been trying to find old pill boxes, etc., I have brushed
through bamboo thickets and other thick vegetation often filming as I went and I
now wonder how close I might inadvertently have come to becoming well-acquainted
with a bamboo snake - but fortunately, as I was always alone in some quite
remote places, it never happened.
Sorry, I cannot
offer any real help.
best wishes.
Andrew
Also on July
29th Tung contributed: “Hello Richard,
I almost forgot
this one......
Boys running
around the outback on CC island of my time must understand the fun of hunting
and keeping some harmless Spider. This tiny spider never construct any web at
all. It scouts on everywhere, indoor & outdoor, on trees, shrubs, or house
furniture like your desk. They are like tiny lonewolfs, maybe in search of flea
or other tiny bugs.
People consider
they are the good and harmless, kids think they are so friendly and pet-able
too!
Kids of age 5 to
8 years old would like to bring their spider pets to school and do all kinds of
creative shows or fight. They keep them each in a tiny envelop made out of a
leaf. The spider is about 0.5 to 1.0 cm long, and color in all black, white and
black, biege or brown. It has no visible hair but very clean to touch. It never
bite people at all.
And they are
free to go after few days fun!!
Tung.
July
29th. Old Timer.
Thanks Tung and
Andrew for recalling our younger days. This photo reminds me of the creek below
the old Clear Water Bay
Road Good Hope School
At about the age
of the tall boy in this photo, I sometimes hiked to Kowloon Reservoir to look
for fighting spiders. They, a loner, made their home a foot or two above
ground by pulling together two leaves with their silk, and this made their
location easy to spot. Some are "Old Poke" (lo-dok - loose translation) because
they use their two front arms to spear at their opponent. When two of them
meet, they fight as if they want to hug each other. Another kind is the "Red
Kid" named for their body colour. To catch them, I wrapped around the folded
leaves with an opened flat tin box and next closed the
lid.
And yes, we kept
them in separate homes made of thorny leaves. A fight took a few seconds and
the loser quickly ran away so injuries were infrequent. I set them free in our
balcony garden after a few days. Looking back, such were our boyish thinking
and fun, but pity the poor little creacture who lost his natural home, and
freedom albeit temporarily. Regards, Peter
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? Well, everything, actually!
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.
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AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK... (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)