I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

Today is the first proper working day of the year, and we have hit the ground running (or in my case, hobbling) with a plethora of computer issues, demands for money and all the usual stuff. Hey ho! I have read 2/3 of the Philip Norman biography of Mick Jagger, and I have to say that it doesn't appear that he likes him very much. Hopefully the weather will stay dry long enough for Corinna, mother and I to go our bird watching, and for Corinna to try out the digiscope that I bought her for Christmas. In the meantime, if you are expecting to hear from me today and haven't, computer issues (which have just been irritating and time consuming, but not disastrous at all) have got in the way, but I will get back to you either today or tomorrow!

Starting off the day with our regular visit to Thom the World Poet, and also a quick look at Chinese astrology
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_2.html

This June Rick Wakeman is playing a special gig in Gloucester. As part of the countdown to it, here is his New Year message to the people of the city...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/rick-wakemans-new-year-message-to.html

Jon Anderson speaks about his eagerly awaited sequel to Olias of Sunhillow
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-olias-sequel-is-driving-jon.html

Helen McCookerybook gets on her soapbox, and we step up to join her. It is quite a big box..
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/helen-mccookerybooks-new-year-rant.html

The Nine Henrys do their renaissance thing
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-daily-henry-henrys-renaissance.html

Here is a Barbara Dickson documentary on BBCi Player. The embedded whatsit may not work on some platforms, so I have provided a link...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/barbara-dickson-documentary-on-bbci.html

*  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: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html

*  Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish and batrachians. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?