DO I OWE HIM A MEMORY (OF COURSE I DO, OF COURSE I DO)

During my recent bout of enforced idleness I have been in bed reading The Rest is Propoganda, the absolutely excellent autobiography by Steve Ignorant of Crass; a musical ensemble of whom I am rather fond. As I have written elsewhere, Crass were pivotal in my life, and indeed I based much of the philosophy of what would become the CFZ upon what they themselves did. I would recommend Igs's book to anyone, but one particular passage brought a lump to my throat.

Why?

Well, Steve, you got it slightly wrong. It wasn't a day centre it was Botchill, a residential hostel attatched to Langdon Hospital. And how do I know this? Because the bloke in the penultimate chapter of page 196 was me. I had completely forgotten the kindness of the drummer from Dirt but Steve's writings brought it all back.

Thanks mate!

And if any of you have ever wondered why the world's largest cryptozoological research organisation is run by a gaggle of middle-aged weirdoes living in a tumbledown old house in the arse-end of nowhere? Well it's mostly HIS fault....

A QUIZ FROM LARS T

Another little something for the blog - a little autumn quiz thing - how about asking people what this is?

KITHRA WRITES ABOUT THE NEW CFZ EXPEDITION

http://kithraskrystalkave.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-cfz-expedition.html

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES:MORE EVIDENCE FOR THE GIANT SALAMANDER IN HONG HONG?

Recently I have been speculating about the possibility of the existence up until, say, at least the 1920s of the giant salamander in Hong Kong. Today I found the following inconclusive evidence from The China Mail in 1910:

THE CHINA MAIL

THE FOUR-LEGGED FISH

Some time ago we made mention of a “four legged fish” in possession of the Chinese Mail. We have now been supplied with one of these interesting creatures from our Chinese contemporary. About two feet in length, possessing four legs and a rather long flat tail, it somewhat resembles a young crocodile. Anyone interested can see the strange creature at the China Mail office, where it is on view. (1)

1. The China Mail January 7th 1910.

FIREBALL FROM CASSIE M

SHE WRITES: Now here is the formerly classified military footage courtesy of former NORAD General General Stanley A. Fullham:

CASSIE MORRISON MUSES ON MOTHMAN

Now, there are a lot of people writing a lot of things about the Mothman recently and I decided it was time I joined in the fray and shared some of my thoughts..



Cassie continues...



EDITOR'S NOTE: I hadn't realised that our Cass was a Mothman witness..

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1967 the Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film was filmed. I have no pretensions of being a bigfoot expert but based on the evidence available at this time I believe that it was a hoax (although exactly who was in on the hoax and who was being hoaxed is defiantly an interesting question), but I'm certainly not the thought police or arrogant enough to say that because something is my opinion it must be true.
The various ins and outs of the film and the events surrounding it are summarised in a fairly balanced manner on the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterson-Gimlin_film so you can make up your own mind.
And now, the news:

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Big cat possibly on prowl in Hills again (via Chad...
Monkeys appointed station masters

The nature of station master was irrepressible!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUMWy4hqAg