The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
And so another week has trundled inexorably towards its close. The filming
has been completed for Episode Three of the revamped OTT, but whether it goes up
next week or the week after is in the lap of the Gods. Actually it isn't. It's
in the lap of me, but I prefer to make it appear as if it is decided by some
omnipotent deity rather than by a fat bloke in a badly converted potato
shed.
We have a huge number of springtails in the garden at the moment. These
tiny hexapods are - I discovered this morning - no longer considered to be
insects, but are in a class all of their own (sometimes with two other
ex-insects). Something else that I discovered today is that they once may have
been used as weapons of mass destruction. Although firmly denied by the US
government despite the existence of the Pine Bluff Arsenal of biological
weapons, destroyed in 1971-1972 under Nixon’s presidency, it has been reported
that springtails were used by the US army as a "six-legged weapon" in biological
warfare performed during the Korean War. Species cited in allegations of
biological warfare in the Korean War were Isotoma (Desoria) negishina
(a local species) and the "white rat springtail" Folsomia candida.
According to these reports, isotomids were intended to serve as carriers of
fatal diseases (anthrax, dysentery, cholera, small pox), dropped by airplanes
above rebel villages.
It would be so tempting to claim that these tiny arthropods have been let
loose upon my garden as a revenge measure by Kim Jong-un, but I am not feeling
mentally agile enough today to work through all the ramifications which that
would entail.
Forgive me for banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot to me,
and I would be grateful for an many people as possible to see it, and spread the
tidings of it far and wide:
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Dave Bainbridge & Sal...
RICK WAKEMAN IN THE NEWS
KEITH CHRISTMAS IN THE NEWS
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #254
THE ONLY IN IT FOR THE FUNNY ISSUE
In this week’s
astounding issue we meet the legendary Mr Biffo and talk about cabbages and
kings, Alan and Sam debate the ethics of free
festivals, John goes to see Suzanne Vega and Jon finally gets Johnny
Thunders. Graham writes about Hawkwind, and Jon remembers a 30 year friendship
that was all down to Frank Zappa. And there is oodles more my little
cupcakes.
Wooooot!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, and Friday
Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy
Weard, C J Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is
also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and common planigales
who have cooked some stews (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have
been culinarily creative, 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:
George Harrison, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Dan Wooding, Rick
Wakeman, Green Seagull, The Granite Shore, Gorillaz, Damon Albarn, Pete
Townshend, Tears for Fears, Roland Orzabal, Curt Smith, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Charles Edward Bradley, Seth
Firkins, Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA, Mark Otis Selby, Kit Reed, Cees
Bergman, Ammon Tharp, Eric Eycke, Sylvia Butterfield MBE, Anthony George Booth,
Hugh Marston Hefner, Mary Hopkin, Man, Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton and Jon Lord,
Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten, Richard Dawe, Mr Biffo, Alan
Dearling, Sam Smith, Free Festivals, John Brodie-Good, Suzanne Vega, Gerry
Leonard, Kev Rowland, Exit Eden, Free Radicals, The Hirsch Effekt, Itchy,
Karamazov, Lorian, Mayhem, Pandora Snail, Greg Jarrells, Roy Weard, Hawkwind,
Ringo Starr, Pussycat Dolls, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Neil
Nixon, The Electric Prunes
Issue 253 (Dana Gillespie)
Issue 252 (Cropredy)
Issue 251 (Scott Walker)
Issue 250 (Jamms)
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
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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
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