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The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday

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YER EDITOR SEZ:

 

There is no news today, we are still waiting for the hospital appointment to come through. Corinna is pain free though intermittently in some discomfort. Many thanks, once again, for everyone who has sent their love and good wishes. To be at the receiving end of such an outpouring of positive energy is truly a wonderful thing.

 

Do I sound like an old hippy here? Tough.

 

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

 

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

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY:  Vaughan Williams ~ Th...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/alice-cooper-retrospective.html

ALICE COOPER RETROSPECTIVE

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/yes-feat-arw-roundup-or-should-that-be.html

YES feat ARW ROUNDUP (or should that be 'Roundabou...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/martin-stephenson-interview.html

MARTIN STEPHENSON INTERVIEW

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_46.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

 

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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 #298

THE GET WELL SOON ISSUE

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In another fun packed and spectacularly Gonzoesque issue, Alan investigates the Hungarian healthcare system from within, John raves about the Pink Fairies, Bart goes to see Yes, Graham reveals stuff about Hawkwind, Jon is both literally and figuratively Lost in Space, and finds something else to write about The Beatles.

#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 (UMM IT'S ACTUALLY JUST HIM THIS WEEK), because Neil Nixon, C J Stone, 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 297 (Alan in Hungary)

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

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?

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

	Southern Bigfoot Research Sasquatch Chronicles Lee from Southern Bigfoot Research posted a video of a couple tracks they were able to cast. One of the tracks has 6 toes, take a look: Runners Kick Off 'Bigfoot' 200-Mile Race Through National Forest Land Centralia Chronicle Runners set off at the start of the Bigfoot 200 at the Marble Mountain Sno Park Friday. The race will finish in Randle this weekend after 200 miles of ...
	Farmer in California claims he saw a Bigfoot family running on his ranch in the middle of the night myfox8.com A North Carolina woman even claims to have invented a spray that will attract Bigfoot. There's also a Bigfoot museum in Littleton that documents the ...

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.

• Dalmatian Pelican added to Category A of French li...
• Rare Shoebill birds return to Jurong Bird Park
• Satellite tags employed to solve albatross's myste...
• Flycatchers follow the rain
• Rare endangered bird species spotted at north Norf...
• Pair of endangered Bali mynah birds make their deb...
• Belgian nude beach blocked on fears sexual activit...

Public invited to release of endangered California Condors on Saturday, Sept. 22 at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument

VERMILION CLIFFS, Ariz. – There is nothing quite as iconic in the western United States as a California Condor soaring over the red-rock-canyon landscapes of northern Arizona and southern Utah. Thanks to people working together to recover this species, condors have become a fixture in southwestern skies. On National Public Lands day this year, the public is invited to join the recovery effort by witnessing first-hand a spectacular release into the wild of several captive-bred young condors.

California Condors will be released by The Peregrine Fund atop the spectacular cliffs in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in northern Arizona at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22. The public is welcome to observe the release from a viewing area where spotting scopes provided by partners and Swarovski Optik will be set up and project personnel will be available to answer questions.


The release coincides with National Public Lands Day, the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance America’s public lands. National Public Lands Day involves the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and other federal agencies, along with state and local governments and private groups.

Driving directions: Take Highway 89A from Kanab or Page to the Vermilion Cliffs (from Flagstaff take Highway 89 to Highway 89A). Turn north onto BLM Road 1065 (a dirt road next to the small house just east of the Kaibab Plateau) and continue almost 3 miles. 

Bring: Spotting scope or binoculars, sunscreen, water, snack, chair and layered clothing 

Details: Informational kiosk, shade structure, and restroom at the site. 

Map: https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/2010%20VCNM%20California%20Condor%20Release%20Map.pdf






This will be the 23rd annual public release of condors in Arizona since the southwest condor recovery program began in 1996. Condors are produced at The Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise, Idaho, the Oregon Zoo, Los Angeles Zoo, and San Diego Zoo Safari Park and then transported to release sites annually for release to the wild.






The historical California Condor population declined to just 22 individuals in the 1980s when the greater California Condor Recovery Program was initiated to save the species from extinction. As of July 25, 2018 there were 85 condors in the wild in the rugged canyon country of northern Arizona and southern Utah and the total world population of endangered California Condors numbers nearly 500 individuals, with more than half flying in the wilds of Arizona, Utah, California, and Mexico.






The Arizona-Utah recovery effort is a cooperative program by federal, state, and private partners, including The Peregrine Fund, Arizona Game and Fish Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management’s Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Grand Canyon and Zion national parks, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, and Kaibab and Dixie national forests among many other supporting groups and individuals.






For more information about California Condors in Arizona visit http://www.peregrinefund.org/condor.

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Monday/Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN -   1521 - Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians. 
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Outrage over alleged plan to export rare animals f...

Reality Check: Are butterflies getting rarer?

Does the US have a pet tiger problem?

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)