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random rumors, rhetoric, reviews, reproaches & occasional GONZO remarks about anything or anyone on GOD’s green earth from the desk of Jason W. Ashcraft

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“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles – a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other – that kept me going.”

-- Hunter S. Thompson, American Gonzo Journalist

“You’ve got to know your limitations. I don’t know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren’t too many limitations, if I did it my way.”

-- Johnny Cash, American Singer-Songwriter & Recording Artist

Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.”

-- Waylon Jennings, American Singer-Songwriter & Recording Artist

“I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and showbusiness: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.”

-- Willie Nelson, American Singer-Songwriter & Recording Artist

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

-- Martin Luther King, Jr., American Civil Rights Leader

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

-- Ernest Hemingway, American Writer & Novelist

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GONZO OP-ED: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Filing A Complaint With All The Pay-For-Play Fake Media Fugazis Out There Trying To Destroy Journalism & Preying Upon The Finances Of Unsuspecting Recording Artists

GONZO OP-ED: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Filing A Complaint With All The Pay-For-Play Fake Media Fugazis Out There Trying To Destroy Journalism & Preying Upon The Finances Of Unsuspecting Recording Artists

You know, that “freedom of the press” clause that our founding fathers decided was important enough to include as part of our first amendment? Apparently it’s under attack in more ways than one in 2024. The lines are being increasingly blurred of who is actually considered “press” or “media” and who isn’t.

OP-ED: JWA Media, Along With Other Former Associates, Gives Testimonial To Saving Country Music About Prior Employment Experience With 2911 Media & Disgraced Publicist & Manager, Kirt Webster

OP-ED: JWA Media, Along With Other Former Associates, Gives Testimonial To Saving Country Music About Prior Employment Experience With 2911 Media & Disgraced Publicist & Manager, Kirt Webster

Please forgive me while I must use this space and platform to exercise my 1st Amendment right, while helping initiate some much needed house-cleaning within the music industry. Anyone that knows me well, or for a long time, knows that I say exactly what I mean, and mean exactly what I say.

Music Break: End of November Remembering

Music Break: End of November Remembering

On May 15th of 2012 I lost my first Doberman Pinscher, Boris. Very suddenly. Soon after that I wrote a gut-spill blog post titled “Mid-May-Mourning” to this blog. Today, on November 30, I’ve lost my second Doberman Pinscher, Ballack. Once again, very suddenly. And...

Food, guns and fun with the Thompsons at GonzoFest 2016

Food, guns and fun with the Thompsons at GonzoFest 2016

So, it’s been awhile, right? This blog. I barely post to it anymore since joining the ranks of junkyard dogs over at GonzoToday.com. Nonetheless, great things are brewing in the world of GONZO. Somehow, I’ve found myself right in the middle of the madness, assuming...

The Boulder Bounce Off – 22Nov2015

The Boulder Bounce Off – 22Nov2015

When I landed at 4:20 pm MT in Denver, Colorado, I suddenly decided to skip my connecting flight back to Louisville. I just had endured yet another corporate bullshit onslaught of trade show hell in Las Vegas for a week. F*ck it. Unplanned sabbatical time to mountains...

Music break: Mid-May-Mourning

Music break: Mid-May-Mourning

My best friend of the last 12 years has come to pass on this mid-May afternoon. Boris, my Doberman Pinscher, has now joined our creator in the heaven above, and did so peacefully. I could not have wished for a more perfect situation for the most loyal friend I’ve ever...

The Hag and The Highwayman Hearten Horseshoe

The Hag and The Highwayman Hearten Horseshoe

Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson’s March 4th, 2011 gig at Horseshoe Casino was billed as an “acoustic performance.” But, upon first entering The Showroom, the first thing I laid eyes on was a couple of Fender Telecasters sitting in their cradles.