CFZ PEOPLE: Jess Heard

Happy Birthday to my dear adopted neice-oh

LATEST ON DALE DRINNON'S 'CEDAR AND WILLOW' BLOG

Dale has been working hard. There is a new and improved homepage for the Cedar and Willow Blog, and some more stories:
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/

The Cedar and Willow Blog now has a couple of short paragraphs on the page headers which explain what the basic concept and setup is all about.

The two Blog entries on Clara Bow are now up:
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2011/10/beech-clara-bow-filmography.html
and
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2011/10/perils-of-betty-boopclara-bow.html
Both of which deal with different aspects of why Betty Boop is based on Clara Bow.
That Betty Rubble=Betty Boop, Wilma Flintstone=Wilma Deering, and that Wilma=Blondie Boopadoop as sister of Betty Boopadoop are all my own inventions since the mid-1970s.
The basic concepts are from a self-published comic book series I would put out occasionally, Adventures On That Strange Planet Called Earth.

SWORDFISH REPORTS (BRITISH SEAS)

http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Swordf.htm

BIRD OBSERVATORY COUNCIL

I have recently started reading various bird observatory websites for news of aberrant birds and moths. However, yesterday I discovered that there is a governing body for bird observatories, and what's more they have a website. And very interesting reading it is too...

http://www.birdobscouncil.org.uk/

The Bird Observatories Council co-ordinates and promotes the work of the Bird Observatories at a national level. Individual Observatories are accredited to the Council when they meet specified criteria relating to activities and facilities.

HAUNTED SKIES: The difficulties of getting a UFO book published in 1970

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2011/10/difficulties-of-getting-ufo-book.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1959 American comedy singer Weird Al Yankovic was born.
And now the news:

'Alien' and 'floating orb' captured on film in the...
Hawk with nail in head alive and still flying free...
New species of beetle discovered in Palawan
Peregrine poisoned by pesticides near Buckfastleig...
Monster shark found off Bar Beach
Humpback Whale killed in shark nets off Durban
Mastodons were hunted in North America 800 years e...

Weird Al Yancovic’s best song, IMO, is his Starwars American Pie parody ‘The Saga Begins’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU