Corinna is home again, thank God. Both of her procedures yesterday apear to have been succesfull, and she appears to be in less pain and discomfort than with the last nephrostomy last week. In other news... There really isn't any. But watch this space. I have a few things close to fruition. In the meantime, if you want something to read whilst you are in self isolation, check this out:
Money is not really something that means a lot to me, and so - with everything else that is going on in my life - I was planning to leave the sales and distribution of this spiffing new volume to those jolly nice folks at Amazon. But - admirably - Amazon are reacting to the Coronavirus pandemic thus: "Amazon is blocking all shipments of nonessential products to its warehouses in response to the significant increase in orders it's seeing as the novel coronavirus spreads across the US. On Tuesday the company told sellers and vendors that it would accept only shipments of "household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products" to its warehouse until April 5 to deal with the high demand of those products amid the coronavirus crisis."
So it is up to me to be the acceptgable face of capitalism. The new Yearbook is up and for sale, but because of possible delays through Amazon you can now buy it from me, here
"We have a limited time, y'know, fill it with fun and adventure. And expect to occasionally be shocked and surprised. And I think when in doubt make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good."
- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
The eagle-eyed amongst you will probably have noticed that the Gonzo Multimedia websites have changed and are in a process of flux, so there are no individual sales links at the moment. But check out
www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk for a thing of wonder. The Gonzo Books site is now pretty well done, although there are still nine authoors who need personal pages. You can find it ay
www.gonzopublishers.com and then tell me what a clever fellow I am. It even has a haiku to explain why some links are not finished:
"These links do not work,
now but they will do so soon,
we apologise"
Blessed be.
BUT ENOUGH OF THE WAFFLE; HERE IS TODAY'S NEWS...
AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
In this revolutionarily radical issue we go along on the Climate March in Bristol with maybe 30,000 others, we meet Extinction Rebellion, take a look at Peter Green's latest reissue, argue the toss about Dr Dolittle, we have the latest from The Gardening Club, find out about the time Aleister Crowley had a spat with W Somerset Maugham, and we join PAART with their animal rescue mission. And much more...
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Merrell Fankhauser, but no sign of Strange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and one from C.J.Stone, although Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and Roy Weard, are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for 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:
Dolittle, Hugh Lofting, Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome, Rick Wakeman & The English Rock Ensemble, Paul McCartney, The Divine Comedy, Yes, Steve Howe, Morrissey, Alan Dearling, Gig, Richard Freeman, Friday Night Progressive, The Merrell Fankhauser Show, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Izeta Selimovic (aka Beba Selimovic), Odile Pierre, David Edward Roback, Claude Flagel, Lionel Eguienta, Nick Apollo Forte (born Nicola Antonio Forte), Sergei Leonidovich Dorensky, Hans Deinzer, Jahn Teigen, Eduardo Bort Garcera, Suthep Wongkamhaeng, Mike Somerville, Henry Gray, Jon Ivar Christensen, Jean-Pierre Kalfon (known professionally as Hector), John Corcoran, Ralf Sauer, (stage name: Peter Wieland), Jan Vycítal, Susan Weinert, Alf Cranner, CC (for "CopyCat" or "Carbon Copy"), Barbara Diane Martin Richardson, Alfred McCoy Tyner, Laura Smith, Charles Baty (aka Little Charlie), Gerry Beckley, The Waterson Family, The Fall, Richard Wright and Dave Harris - Zee, Chasing the Monsoon, Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg, Climate Change Crisis, Pete Somerville, Colon Rayner Photography, PAART, Peter Green, Kev Rowland, Smash Fashion, Sunstorm, Superfecta, While She Sleeps, Talitha Rise, TNT, Unkh, Wayne Powers, Tony Klinger, C.J. Stone, Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Thom the World Poet, The Magician, W. Somerset Maugham, John Higgs, Alan Moore, Aleister Crowley
..And the last few issues are:
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!
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.
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
* 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 60 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, 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 and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?
Regular readers will know that in recent years we have migrated the two specialist Study Groups – Mystery Cats (curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy) and Lake and Sea Monsters (curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead) – to their own standalone blogs, although when there are postings, notifications of them can be found here on the main blog.
