Gonzo Retirement

August 14, 2015 Kyle K. Mann 0

By Kyle K. Mann Here it comes in a few weeks: age 64. I’m retiring from the film biz, where I have been a Hollywood Union stagehand for a quarter century. It’s been fun, but I’m done. I am not going to live in some brain-deadening community and play shuffleboard. […]

Wild Ride with Janis

July 3, 2015 Kyle K. Mann 0

by Kyle K. Mann The fact is, I didn’t know who she was, and she was scary. Back in 1968 I was a bright-eyed lad of 17 with shoulder-length hair and a full, just-grown mustache, which made me look older. I’d gone from weenie punk to fully-fledged Bay Area hipster […]

Reality Quiz for Americans

May 4, 2015 Kyle K. Mann 0

By Kyle K. Mann 1)    The reason we are fighting in the Middle East is: a.    Greedy males want money and power b.    Greedy females compel males to fight for money and power c.    Because of hideous aliens with amazing powers d.    Frighteningly meaningless when […]

IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY APRIL 17, 2015

April 18, 2015 Kyle K. Mann 0

Go back to April 16 By: Kyle K. Mann April 17, 2015 Our boy Kyle from 40 years ago was crashing at this time with Hook and Rose, friends who were extremely tolerant of my homeless, carless and virtually cashless state. Four decades later, one might ask why. Looking back, […]

The UFO and the New World Order

April 18, 2015 Kyle K. Mann 0

l[artwork copyright 2015 by Josh Chambers By Kyle K. Mann Whatever was shining brightly over the night-shrouded freeway up ahead, it was extremely unusual, and bizarre. I raced out of L.A. at midnight on the northbound Interstate 5 with my buddy, Ab the Editor, riding shotgun. We were bound for […]

IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY APRIL 16, 2015

April 17, 2015 Kyle K. Mann 0

Go Back to April 15 By Kyle K. Mann April 16, 2015 I’ve been writing, revising, and researching my UFO piece for Gonzo Today all day in a quiet frenzy. I feel it’s as good as I can make it, and just sent it off to the Gonzo Editors. I […]

IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY APRIL 15, 2015

April 16, 2015 Kyle K. Mann 0

Go back to April 13 By Kyle K.Mann April 15, 2015 40 years ago this impossibly young version of me heard the call. The all-caps self-growling is the clue: Tues. April 15, 1975 I MUST WRITE! Sue Saunders was inspiring yesterday – said she puts out 2,000 words a day. […]

April 13, 2015

April 14, 2015 Kyle K. Mann 0

By Kyle K. Mann Greetings, readers. Today I’m going to start something that I’ve never seen or heard of… Write and publish a journal with exactly 40 years between it. Tailored for the website Gonzo Today .com, I should emphatically express my deep gratitude to the editors there, who have […]

CIA Whistleblower John C. Kiriakou: the Gonzo Today Interview

April 2, 2015 Kyle K. Mann 0

By Kyle K. Mann One doesn’t approach an interview with John Kiriakou lightly. Even a fairly low-intensity questioning of a CIA whistleblower, by email, has numerous implications. One of the biggest ones, for starters, is the question: will there be negative consequences for doing this?I thought this over for weeks […]