Monday, September 05, 2016

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS PENSIVE

The Gonzo Daily - Monday/Tuesday
I am feeling remarkably good this morning. I rose early and came downstairs for a few hours solitude and headspace before the day begins. For years I used to get up, and be in the office doing my daily emails, or the blogs, or whatever was on my plate, as I ate my breakfast. Well as part of my ‘Keep Jon alive a few years longer campaign’ my medicos advised me to cut down on stress, and I realised that although I couldn’t (or at least didn’t want to) stop doing the thing that I do, I could stop doing them in such a self destructive way. So a few hours of coffee, pottering, and finishing off the latest Nelson deMille thriller which I got for my birthday, has paid off and I am ready to start the day feeling remarkably relaxed.
By the way, on Friday I appealed for anybody out there reading this who has any knowledge or experience of setting up a succesful Patron campaign. Of course I meant Patreon. Someone help me pleeeeeeease.
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
And now for the news................
Cropredy Blog 2015: Ric Sanders and Chris Leslie (...
Alex Harvey interview Bob Harris
Eric Burdon - Interview 2010
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Erik Norlander - Fanfa...
Gonzo Magazine #198
Alan discovers how Steve Ignorant - a motormouthed  punk  icon - swapped the Tourette’s  rage of Crass for a life as a Punch and Judy Professor. He also has a very Weird Weekend. Jon, however, muses on Al Stewart and reads about Miss Peregrine and her Peculiar Children. John says goodbye to Gilli Smyth of Gong and Doug gets a whiff of Perfume!
Good ‘ere innit?
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive and Canterbury Sans Frontieres. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:
Al Stewart, Charles Manson, Mike Love, Dennis Wilson, George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Prince, John Lennon, Mark David Chapman, Gregg Kofi Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Ozzy Osbourne, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Dwane "Hoot" Hester, Gene Wilder, Martin Stephenson, Jeff Wayne/Radio Luxembourg, Dee Palmer, Arthur Brown, Rick Wakeman, Pink Fairies, Captain Beefheart, Joe Cocker, Rick Wakeman and Mario Fasciano, Rick Wakeman and Brian May, Barbara Dickson, Alan Dearling, Steve Ignorant, Perfume, Gilli Smyth, Weird Weekend 2016, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Paul Rudolph, Bob Calvert, Xtul, The Monkees, Judas Priest, The Doors, The Beatles, Neil Nixon, David Cassidy                                                  
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 197 (Gilli Smyth)
Issue 196 (Paul May)
Issue 195 (Dave Brock)
Issue 194 (Auburn)
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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!
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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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 57 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two small 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 the infantile orange cat, and the adventurous kittens?

TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

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.

US SIGHTINGS: Attacks. ‘She will have stories to ..

  • PHOTOS: Leopard Charges At Zookeeper But Gets Pawe...
  • NEWSLINK: Meet 'Collar Wali', The Latest Craze At 
  • BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    Native American Cliff Painting Of A Bigfoot? (Video)
    This is in an area of Utah where there have been reported sightings of Bigfoot. So it leads Kelly to think the Native American tribes were familiar with ...



    The legendary beast Bigfoot may have been captured on video by accident in this astonishing footage. The camera was set up to snare drug gangs ...

    What The Heck Is In This Bigfoot Photo?
    This image was released recently, supposedly showing a bigfoot and a small boy. I'm not sure why a boy would be there. Here's a new breakdown of ...

    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.






    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Monday/Tuesday

    ON THIS DAY IN - 1698 - Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards. 
    And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Inuit fear they will be overwhelmed as ‘extinction...
  • Whales in the desert
  • Water voles to be reintroduced to England's highes...
  • Sea potatoes wash up en masse on Cornish beach
  • Yellowstone fish deaths: 183 miles of river closed...
  • Genetic study of skinks suggests extreme matrotrop...


  • 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)