The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
And for no real reason Sunday's notifications are done in rhyme
It's Sunday so again its time
to do the daily blogs in rhyme:
I bought an iPad yesterday
and a selection of tank fish too
the sort that as a child in Hong Kong
I would catch for my window sill "zoo"
The iPad is too complicated for me
but the fish are a delight,
and Mother and I were watching them
late into the night,
while I conversed with the Apple helpdesk,
who I must say were terribly nice,
and in the end got the damn thing going,
even though I'd crashed it twice,
and I suppose there's a moral here somewhere,
about my technological sin,
but its more fun watching tiny cyprinids,
while knowcking back strawberry gin.
Changing the subject completely, is there anyone reading this who has any
experience in coding apps? Even more importantly, if you do, would you be
prepared to lend your expertise to us for a few hours? Email me please at
jon@eclipse.co.uk.
Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot
to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and
spread the tidings of it far and wide:
And if you fancy supporting us on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore
seems to be in order: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy the record by the main protagonist of the novel who isn't me in an
elephant mask, honest:
buy my single:
But for now, here is the news:
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Johnny Cash - Where We...
Gonzo Weekly #290
03-06-18 – SHOW 261 – Five Big Dicks/Surfer’s Choi...
ZAPPA NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #290
THE OVERNITE SENSATION ISSUE
We continue to trawl the counterculture with this particularly groovy
issue, in which Jon talks to Frank Zappa’s younger sister about her book, her
brother and other things, Jeremy goes to see Wreckless Eric, Doug goes to see
Echo and the Bunnymen, Alan goes to see Woody Pines, Graham riffs on Hawkwind,
Jon writes about Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, and there is loadsa other
stuff as well ….
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, there are columns from all sorts of folk including Neil
Nixon, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, and Mr Biffo and Kev Rowlands AND the
irrepressible Corinna . There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views,
interviews and tiger quolls who are havinga little snooze (OK, nothing to do
with small dasyurids who are a little sleepy, 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:
Pink Floyd, Nick Mason, Ringo Starr, Jon Anderson, Damon Albarn, Prince,
Yes, Morrissey, Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jalaluddin Mansur
Nuriddin, Marc Ogeret, Robert Maksymilian Brylewski (also known as. Afa and
Robin Goldroker), Edward Harrington (aka Eddy Clearwater), Razan Ashraf Abdul
Qadir al-Najjar, Sinan Sakic, Demba Nabé, Ralph Santolla, Brian Browne, Eliza
Carthy, Kate Rusby, Rick Wakeman, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Mitchell Trio,
Patrice Zappa, Frank Zappa, Doug Harr, Echo and the Bunnymen, Alan Dearling,
Woody Pines, Jeremy Smith, Wreckless Eric, Kev Rowland, Sex Dumpster, Soniq
Theater, Soul Doubt, Umphrey's Mcgee, Usurpress, Voidhanger, Alghazanth, Animal
Drive, Besvarjelsen, Chris Stone, Hawkwind, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin
Springett, The Durrells, Nick van der Leek
And the last few issues are:
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
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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* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to
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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?
