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The Gonzo Daily: Thursday

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YER EDITOR SEZ:

 

Much love and gratitude to all the people around the world who have sent us their love and positivity, and who have written or messaged us. Special thanks to Hayley for our conversation on Tuesday; it helped a lot, to Lizzy, and of course to La Famille Phillipson for everything. Corinna is currently being prayed for across the world by adherents of a bunch of different religions, and we are overwhelmed by the kindness that has been shown us. The second case conference takes place tomorrow, and I suspect that we shall hear more about Corinna's condition and prognosis then.

 

Two other friends and collaborators are ill - In Hungary and Holland respectively - and my love goes out to you both. If you want to contact me, please feel free, but please use emails or Facebook Messenger to contact rather than telephone, so that we can keep the lines open and not alarm Mother. And please contact me rather than my darling wife.

 

And please keep on sending the love. because, after all, All you Need is Love.

 

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-love-john.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY:  Love - John Lennon/Pl...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/yes-feat-arw-news.html

YES feat ARW NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/leonard-cohen-news.html

LEONARD COHEN NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_2.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/gardening-club-review-from-way-back-when.html

GARDENING CLUB REVIEW FROM WAY BACK WHEN

 

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And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:

https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html

 

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

 

Gonzo Weekly #297

THE REMEMBER WILKO ISSUE

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In this strange and rather poignant issue, Richard Stellar discovers the incomparable Shir Ordo, Jon talks about Roger Daltrey and Wilko Johnson, Corinna has been in hospital, Alan revisits the The Grunwick dispute and strike action and associated street art, Phil goes to see Roger Waters, John goes to see Canned Heat, Graham looks at what we know about the forthcoming Hawkwind album, and Jon writes about Evelyn Waugh. REDEFINING ECLECTIC eh?

 

#Hail Eris!

 

And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there are columns from all sorts of folk including Kev Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, but the irrepressible Corinna, Mr Biffo and Roy Weard are on hiatus.  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with regards their footwear, 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:

 

Roger Daltrey, Nick Cave, Wilko Johnson, Shir Ordo, paul McCartney, Led Zeppelin, Morrissey, Yoko Ono, David Bowie, Billy Gibbons, Z Z Top, Patrick Williams, Lucy Ferry, June Jacobs, Elbert Howard, Rick Wakeman, Michael Bruce, Natural Gas, Roger Waters, Canned Heat, UPF, Universe Infinity, Unruly Child, Vantomime, Vespero, Zero for Conduct, Abjection Ritual, Aborted Fetus, C J Stone, Hawkwind, Evelyn Waugh, The George Garabedian Players and the Awful Trumpet of Harry Arms.

 

And the last few issues are:

 

Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo295.html

Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo294.html

Issue 293 (Stonehenge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo293.html

Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo292.html

Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo291.html

Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo290.html

Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo289.html

Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo288.html

Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo287.html

Issue 286 (Monty Python)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo286.html

Issue 285 (ELP)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo285.html

Issue 284 (Straqngelove)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo284.html

Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo283.html

Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo282.html

Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo281.html

Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)

 

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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SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

 

 

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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 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 58 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?

BIG CAT ROUND UP

The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. 

There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we are publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking.

• NEWSLINK: Second mountain lion killed after livest...
• NEWSLINK: ‘Concerted efforts needed for tigers' pr...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

How politics led to an 8000 percent surge in 'Bigfoot erotica' searches on Pornhub

USA TODAY

The adult website Pornhub said Tuesday that searches for "Bigfoot" – as in the giant biped of North American lore – have shot up 8,000 percent since ...

Candidate calls out opponent as 'devotee of Bigfoot erotica' - Franklin News Post

'Bigfoot' PornHub Searches Skyrocket after Congressional Candidates' Twitter Spat - Newsweek

Absurdity takes lead in 5th race - Franklin News Post

Full Coverage

Stephen Colbert tackles Bigfoot erotica as congressional race gets cryptozoological

Los Angeles Times

Stephen Colbert tackles Bigfoot erotica as congressional race gets ... werewolves, a political scandal centered around Bigfoot erotica was inevitable. 

Daughter of Texarkana filmmaker acquires rights to 'Legend of Boggy Creek,' plans to re-release ...

NWAOnline

... between Fouke-area residents and the Fouke Monster — a shaggy, Bigfoot-esque creature said to roam the nearby woods and swampy waterways.

LIZ BITAKARAMIRE: Rare Book Sale For A Good Cause

It has been quite a while since I last put my two penn'orth in on the CFZ blog but I have not been idle in that meantime. I have been working for Caritas, a little social action charity in Greater Manchester and Lancashire, which seeks to end poverty and homelessness, promote community cohesion and much more!

We have recently been donated a massive slew of books, of varying theme, but many of them caught my eye as being of potential interest to our cryptozoological community so I thought I'd share.

The books will be uploaded to both Amazon and Abe Books in the near future, but in the meantime, if you fancy doing something nice for charity, whilst also treating yourself to an informative tome about beekeeping, or a guide to the birds of South Africa, please email l.bitakaramire@caritassalford.org.uk

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