Monday, December 31, 2012
KITHRA: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Many people have written about this incident as it's not only a real mystery but remains, to this day, unsolved. It happened during the night of 2nd February, 1959, in the northern Ural Mountains on a mountain known as Kholat Syakhl. The mountain's name comes from the language of the endangered indigenous Mansi people of Russia. And it's a language that is, in many ways, very similar to Hungarian. A translation of the mountain's name means Mountain of the Dead, so it's somewhat chilling that the incident should have occurred there. Because it happened the event has come to be known as the Dyatlov Pass incident after the name of the leader of the group to which it happened.
DALE DRINNON: African bears, Atlantis, bigfoot, Benny's Blogs
New on Frontiers of Zoology:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/12/atlas-bear-nandi-bear-again.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/12/five-stages-of-bigfoot-hoax-publicity.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/12/five-stages-of-bigfoot-hoax-publicity.html
New on Frontiers of Anthropology:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/12/atlantean-subsidence.html
New on Benny's blog for Thelma Todd:
And New from Benny's Blog, the Ominous Octopus
Omnibus:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/its-joke-son.html
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/its-joke-son.html
Best Wishes, Dale D.
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (CFZ)
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that - whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot, or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean Zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.Berkeley Law Students Charged In Vegas Bird Decapi...
I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
And so here we are at the end of another
year - my fifty-fourth year on the planet. The New Year starts tomorow, with all
the possibilities, threats and promises that this entails. Thank you for having
stuck with us during 2012, and I hope that you continue to do so in 2013. Hold
on tight, it might well be a bumpy ride.
The Gonzo Track of the Day is specifically for
Gonzo Artists, but occasionally, being editor, I choose a song which has a lot
to do with the day, and nothing to do with the company...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-george-harrison.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-george-harrison.html
I think that Peter McAdam is one of the funniest
people with whom I have ever been involved.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-daily-henry-henry-at-grassy-knoll.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-daily-henry-henry-at-grassy-knoll.html
Corky Laing's new project sounds absolutely
incredible. Here, for the second day running he explains it all
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/corky-laing-ongoing-saga-of-drummer_31.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/corky-laing-ongoing-saga-of-drummer_31.html
Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_31.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_31.html
We say goodbye to Fontella Bass
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-fontella-bass-1940.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-fontella-bass-1940.html
Liam Davison's new album took me completely by
surprise
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/liam-davison-not-at-all-what-i-was.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/liam-davison-not-at-all-what-i-was.html
Michael Des Barres at the Rolling Stones tribute
show
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/michael-des-barres-at-rolling-stones.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/michael-des-barres-at-rolling-stones.html
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures is an old hippy of
53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted
potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with
various fish and batrachians. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna,
his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social
malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
KARL SHUKER - THE NEPHILIM: A BIBLICAL MYSTERY OF GIANT PROPORTIONS
Who - or what - were the Nephilim? Karl Shuker enters his Eclectarium in search of answers.
Read more...
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1552 the Elizabethan ocultist and astrologer Simon Foreman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Forman
) was born.
And now
the news:
Astrology and ocultism are still practised by
experts of the craft:
Sunday, December 30, 2012
THE LAKE CHAMPLAIN SAGA CONTINUES
This morning I received this very pleasant and reasoned letter from Dr Robert Bartholemew, author of the book on the Lake Champlain creature which was talked about in a Cryptolink yesterday. I thought it important enough to post it as a blog posting as well as a comment. Although we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting, usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me, the fact that there are factual errors in the original piece, means that we have a chance here to allow Dr Bartholemew to redress the balance.
I have tried to contact him, but the new profile system on Blogger is so complicated I cannot work out how to do so. So, if you are reading this could you possible email me on jon@eclipse.co.uk
This article contains two factual errors:
1. When I tried to interview Sandra Mansi, her attorney said she was unavailable due to illness; I have no reason to doubt this.
2. It should read “burned or buried” and not “burned and buried” the negative.
The article title is unfortunate as it can be interpreted as debunking the notion of Champ and the Mansi photo. Champ may exist and the Mansi photo may be authentic, but in order to assess them we need an accurate accounting of the facts presented in a chronological, hysteria-free manner that does not take sides. The majority of the book carefully documents the history of the Champlain Monster from Indian lore to the present day, with an emphasis on detailing early sightings from the 1870s to the 1930s. There is some compelling, credible evidence for Champ, especially from the 1800s, but without a body, an ultimate determination cannot be made.
The main contribution to Cryptozoology is the meticulous documentation of early reports that have never appeared in any book before, especially from prominent citizens; a clearing up of several myths about Champ that have been perpetrated by sloppy journalists; unfortunate attempts to cash in on Champ by some locals (which is fine so long as they do not bend the truth in doing so); and an assessment of the claims by researchers such as Elizabeth von Muggenthaler (that she can hear a Champ-like creature in the water) and Dennis Hall (video and visual sightings), research which is not credible. It also documents in great detail the behind-the-scenes feud between rival Champ researchers Dr Philip Reines and Joe Zarzynski, over what to do with the Mansi photo and other issues. This is not done to air ‘dirty laundry’ in public or to sensationalise, but any understanding of the Mansi photo must be grounded in its historical and social context. The photo may be genuine, but until now several aspects of it and the circumstances surrounding it, were kept hidden. This information should have been disclosed in the interests of accuracy. There are perhaps a dozen red flags that surround the photo, which are presented for the reader to form their own opinion. Is it faulty memory – which happens to all of us – or something more sinister. Ultimately, I wrote this book in order to separate fact from fiction and speculation.
I would ask that if others wish to pass judgement on my research, they go to their local library and assess it for themselves instead of making a snap judgment based on a single newspaper article from a busy reporter who has the impossible task of boiling down 60,000 words and decades of research, into a thousand or so words.
You can get a sense of the style of the book by reading the first 20 pages at:
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5611-the-untold-story-of-champ.aspx
Dr Robert E. Bartholomew
I have tried to contact him, but the new profile system on Blogger is so complicated I cannot work out how to do so. So, if you are reading this could you possible email me on jon@eclipse.co.uk
This article contains two factual errors:
1. When I tried to interview Sandra Mansi, her attorney said she was unavailable due to illness; I have no reason to doubt this.
2. It should read “burned or buried” and not “burned and buried” the negative.
The article title is unfortunate as it can be interpreted as debunking the notion of Champ and the Mansi photo. Champ may exist and the Mansi photo may be authentic, but in order to assess them we need an accurate accounting of the facts presented in a chronological, hysteria-free manner that does not take sides. The majority of the book carefully documents the history of the Champlain Monster from Indian lore to the present day, with an emphasis on detailing early sightings from the 1870s to the 1930s. There is some compelling, credible evidence for Champ, especially from the 1800s, but without a body, an ultimate determination cannot be made.
The main contribution to Cryptozoology is the meticulous documentation of early reports that have never appeared in any book before, especially from prominent citizens; a clearing up of several myths about Champ that have been perpetrated by sloppy journalists; unfortunate attempts to cash in on Champ by some locals (which is fine so long as they do not bend the truth in doing so); and an assessment of the claims by researchers such as Elizabeth von Muggenthaler (that she can hear a Champ-like creature in the water) and Dennis Hall (video and visual sightings), research which is not credible. It also documents in great detail the behind-the-scenes feud between rival Champ researchers Dr Philip Reines and Joe Zarzynski, over what to do with the Mansi photo and other issues. This is not done to air ‘dirty laundry’ in public or to sensationalise, but any understanding of the Mansi photo must be grounded in its historical and social context. The photo may be genuine, but until now several aspects of it and the circumstances surrounding it, were kept hidden. This information should have been disclosed in the interests of accuracy. There are perhaps a dozen red flags that surround the photo, which are presented for the reader to form their own opinion. Is it faulty memory – which happens to all of us – or something more sinister. Ultimately, I wrote this book in order to separate fact from fiction and speculation.
I would ask that if others wish to pass judgement on my research, they go to their local library and assess it for themselves instead of making a snap judgment based on a single newspaper article from a busy reporter who has the impossible task of boiling down 60,000 words and decades of research, into a thousand or so words.
You can get a sense of the style of the book by reading the first 20 pages at:
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5611-the-untold-story-of-champ.aspx
Dr Robert E. Bartholomew
DALE DRINNON: Big catfishes/Atlantis/Cedar and Willow/ Benny's Blog
New at Frontiers of
Anthropology:
Once again I was fighting
Blogger to get this article posted. It is actually "Christmas Letters about
Atlantis #3" but it requireda complete Google-Translation from Russian and
Blogger's inability to publish. It still is not listed among my publications on
my dashboard at Blogger, and the listing is supposed to come
automatically.
New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
New at Cedar and Willow:
New at Benny's Blog, the Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
Best Wishes, Dale D.
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (CFZ)
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that - whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot, or lake monsters - it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean Zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.Miracle owl survives head-on collision with pickup...
TODAY'S BIG CAT ROUND-UP
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012 Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.http://mysterycats.blogspot.com/2012/12/newslink-big-cat-sightings-expected-to.html
CRYPTOLINK: Goodness me...
Once again I would like to stress that we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting, usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. Unless 'Goodness Me' counts as a comment.
Ok folks...here we go again. Ed Smith and D.W.Lee of the Mid-America
Bigfoot Research Center are claiming a Bigfoot has been captured:
AND NOW THIS HAPPENS:
'Daisy' The Bigfoot Has Been Released...
Ghost Theory (blog)
According to Tim Fasano, Daisy the Bigfoot has been released with all evidence and reports destroyed. That's right. He just got word from “Central Command headquarters” that they had to release the supposed Bigfoot they had captured because of the ...
See all stories on this topic »
Did it happen?Read on...
Written by D.W. Lee
Friday, 28 December 2012 09:27
Did the Quantra group obtain a live specimen with their operational plan to capture a Bigfoot? Ed Smith received an automated text message yesterday from the group's messaging system as shown here.
**********
December 27, 2012 10:09 AM
From: CINC - 6
As of 0906 27 DEC 2012, "Daisy" is in the box.
**********
And Ed had this to say about it.
AND NOW THIS HAPPENS:
'Daisy' The Bigfoot Has Been Released...
Ghost Theory (blog)
According to Tim Fasano, Daisy the Bigfoot has been released with all evidence and reports destroyed. That's right. He just got word from “Central Command headquarters” that they had to release the supposed Bigfoot they had captured because of the ...
See all stories on this topic »
I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN
It's been nearly a week since Christmas
now
and I still don't understand how
the time can go so bloody fast
and all the holidays are passed
the time can go so bloody fast
and all the holidays are passed
and so it's sunday once again
and time to lift conceptual pen
and do the Gonzo blogs in verse
(never mind, it could be worse)
and time to lift conceptual pen
and do the Gonzo blogs in verse
(never mind, it could be worse)
And I suppose I should explain
its not because I've gone insane
once a week I write the rhymes you see
purely because it amuses me
its not because I've gone insane
once a week I write the rhymes you see
purely because it amuses me
Monday to Saturday in this place
I write in prose, sometimes po-faced
but on Sunday I like to be daft
and stupid rhymes always make me laugh
I write in prose, sometimes po-faced
but on Sunday I like to be daft
and stupid rhymes always make me laugh
We start off now with a big bang
an opera from Corky Laing
which covers everything from ethics
to the freakier end of genetics
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/corky-laing-ongoing-saga-of-drummer.html
an opera from Corky Laing
which covers everything from ethics
to the freakier end of genetics
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/corky-laing-ongoing-saga-of-drummer.html
Death is something we all expect
but when it's someone we respect
the Gonzo blog people and I
like to take time to say goodbye
but when it's someone we respect
the Gonzo blog people and I
like to take time to say goodbye
(There was no way I could find a convincing rhyme
for Sir Richard Rodney Bennett)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-sir-richard-rodney.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-sir-richard-rodney.html
Last night I hchganced to happen upon
a video of Jon Anderson
I think it comes from Costa Rica
but let me know and take a peek - uh
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/jon-anderson-does-anyone-know-where.html
a video of Jon Anderson
I think it comes from Costa Rica
but let me know and take a peek - uh
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/jon-anderson-does-anyone-know-where.html
A review of a great Pantomime
from a favourite Gonzogirl of mine
come on folk, just take a look
at this essay from Ms McCookerybook
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/helen-mccookerybook-pantomime-review.html
from a favourite Gonzogirl of mine
come on folk, just take a look
at this essay from Ms McCookerybook
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/helen-mccookerybook-pantomime-review.html
I choose a Track of the Day for you
based on whom I'd like to listen to
and so today you all can hear,
Annie Haslam singing 'Ave Maria'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-annie-haslam.html
based on whom I'd like to listen to
and so today you all can hear,
Annie Haslam singing 'Ave Maria'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-annie-haslam.html
And finally, regular readers know it
each day we visit the World Poet
whose poetry is really fine
and light years far ahead of mine
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html
each day we visit the World Poet
whose poetry is really fine
and light years far ahead of mine
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html
* The Gonzo Daily is a two way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures is an old hippy of
53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted
potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with
various fish and batrachians. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna,
his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social
malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1924 Edwin Hubble proudly announced the existence of other
galaxies.
And now
the news:
Richard Freeman should enjoy this:
Saturday, December 29, 2012
DALE DRINNON: Bigfoot at the Crypto Crew, and Benny's Blog
Doing things a little differently today:New at the Crypto Crew:
http://www.thecryptocrew.com/2012/12/comparison-of-different-bigfoot.html
And new on Benny's Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/nyoka-jungle-girl.html
http://www.thecryptocrew.com/2012/12/comparison-of-different-bigfoot.html
And new on Benny's Blog, The Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/nyoka-jungle-girl.html
CRYPTOLINK: Champ: Hook, line and sinker
WHITEHALL — Robert
Bartholomew admits it. He really, really wanted to believe that there is a
sea monster lurking in Lake Champlain named Champ.Bartholomew grew up in Whitehall on the lake's southern shore, worked as a radio reporter in Glens Falls and Albany and spent most of his life gathering boxes of material on the possibly prehistoric creature of the North Country that scores of people claim to have glimpsed over the past century.
Now, Bartholomew's long
investigation and endless fascination has resulted in a book, "The Untold Story
of Champ: A Social History of America's Loch Ness Monster," published in
December by SUNY
Press.
It's a full-fledged biography of perhaps the second-most famous sea monster
in the world after Nessie, the Loch Ness monster.Bartholomew approaches his subject with the skepticism of an investigative reporter. He debunks and exposes hoaxes as much as he chronicles evidence of the elusive serpentine creature described as having a long, humped back and a horse-like head.
His lively and readable account
starts out by puncturing the myth that Samuel
de Champlain spotted Champ in 1609. He describes the egos and obsessions of
numerous serpent hunters across the decades. He also lays out an almost willful
complicity in pumping up reports of Champ sightings among boosterish local
journalists, over-eager chambers of commerce leaders and well-meaning
lake residents.
Read on...
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (CFZ)
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN
As you have probably noticed, we are running stupidly late today. Is this because we don't care and have been sitting around in a lackadaisical fashion doing now't? Of course not. How could you THINK such a thing? It is merely that Corinna and I have been procrastinating a trip into Bideford to do some groceriestuff for several days now, and Prudence wouldn't let us procrastinate any further. She had run out of dog food, mother had run out of nuts and I had run out of brandy. Desperate measures needed to be taken. So we took them. (But we wanted to do it in daylight, so we are running hours late)We say goodbye to Ray Collins
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-ray-collins-1936-2012.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/those-we-have-lost-ray-collins-1936-2012.html
Classic Rock have announced their albums of the year -= and look who is at #28
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/classic-rock-albums-of-year.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/classic-rock-albums-of-year.html
Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html
Martin Stephenson is singing today's Gonzo Track of the Day
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-martin.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-martin.html
An insightful Chris Thompson interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-chris-thompson-interview.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-chris-thompson-interview.html
A roundup of Atkins/May stuff
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-lotsa-atkinsmay-stuff.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-lotsa-atkinsmay-stuff.html
* The Gonzo Daily is a two-way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work, or even just say hello please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loudly enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* Jon Downes, the editor of all these ventures, is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon, which he shares with various fish and batrachians. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus... did we mention the orange cat?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
On this day in 2003 Bob Monkhouse died. Monkhouse, as well as being a rather good comedian, scriptwriter and quiz show host of great renown, was an obsessive recorder of television. Monkhouse had owned television recording equipment before it was even available to the public and it is thought that in his vast uncatalogued archives there may be several lost films and tv episodes including lost episodes of Doctor Who.
And now the news:
The Secret Life of Bob Monkhouse, a documentary about his vast collection:
Friday, December 28, 2012
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (CFZ)
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So, after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo, Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.DALE DRINNON: Zimbabwe monster, Cedar & Willow, Benny's Blogs
New at Frontiers of Zoology:
New at Cedar and Willow:
New at Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:
New at Benny's Blog, the Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
TODAY'S BIG CAT ROUND-UP
The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper-column inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. In September 2012 Emma Osborne decided that the Mystery Cat Study Group really deserved a blog of its own within the CFZ Blog Network.I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
I have to admit that I am very much enjoying doing
as little as possible this week. I don't usually get the opportunity, and I am
relishing it a lot.An interview with out favourite poet - no, not Keats; Texas Thom!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/an-interview-with-thom-world-poet.html
Steve Howe is looking forward to the forthcoming
Yes tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-yes-steve-howe-looking-forward-to.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-yes-steve-howe-looking-forward-to.html
It is always good to have an excuse to play this
song by Eric Burdon, so I have made it the Gonzo track of the day
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-eric-burdon.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-eric-burdon.html
Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html
The last portion of Christmas music for this year
is from Helen McCookerybook
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/countdown-from-christmas.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/countdown-from-christmas.html
Listen to this podcast featuring Michael Des
Barres
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/michael-des-barres-podcast.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/michael-des-barres-podcast.html
* The Gonzo Daily is a two-way process. If you
have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and
want to showcase your work, or even just say hello, please write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and
spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to
read us in order to grow, and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more
traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we
all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow...
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine (mostly) about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* Jon Downes, the editor of all these ventures, is
an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat - puts it all together
from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon. He is
ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his
mother-in-law and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus... did we
mention the orange cat?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1795 construction began on Yonge street in what would become Toronto, Canada.
Yonge Street was, and by some estimates still is, the longest street in the
world and was formally recognised as such in the Guinness book of Records.
And now
the news:
Robert “Philip Marlowe” Mitchum sings The Ballad
of Thunder Road (on a related note, Mitchum's version
of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is vastly
superior to the Bogart and Bacall one and you all should watch it; it's free on
Love Film and probably the inferior
Netflix too):
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Journal of Herpetology Table of Contents Vol. 46, Issue 4 (Dec 2012)
Journal of Herpetology Table of
Contents
Courtesy of BioOne
Vol. 46, Issue 4 (Dec 2012)
The above issue is now available online from BioOne
at:
http://www.bioone.org/toc/hpet/46/4
http://www.bioone.org/toc/hpet/46/4
Probably also from Zen Scientist
Compare both for price.
JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
i-viii.
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Reviews
A Practical Guide for the Study of Malformed
Amphibians and Their Causes
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
429-441.
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Uncovering Salamander Ecology: A Review of
Coverboard Design
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
442-450.
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A Review of a Rare Type of Anomaly in Amphibians,
Tail Duplication and Bifurcation, with Description of Three New Cases in
European Species (Triturus dobrogicus, Triturus carnifex, and
Hyla arborea)
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
451-455.
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Ecology
Spatial Distribution and Activity Patterns in
African Barking Geckos: Implications for Mating System and
Reproduction
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
456-460.
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Behavior
Hot Boys Are Blue: Temperature-Dependent Color
Change in Male Eastern Fence Lizards
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
461-465.
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Systematics
A New Species of Proceratophrys (Anura:
Cycloramphidae) from Midwestern Brazil
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
466-472.
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A New Golden Toad (Bufonidae: Incilius)
from Northwestern Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
473-479.
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A New Species of Large Flying Frog
(Rhacophoridae: Rhacophorus) from Lowland Forests in Southern
Vietnam
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
480-487.
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A New Species of Small Bent-Toed Gecko
(Cyrtodactylus: Gekkonidae) from the Huon Peninsula, Papua New
Guinea
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
488-493.
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A New Acontine Skink from Zambia (Scincidae:
Acontias Cuvier, 1817)
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
494-502.
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Identification and Description of the Tadpole of
the Parachuting Frog Rhacophorus catamitus from Southern Sumatra,
Indonesia
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
503-506.
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Conservation
Urban Ponds, Neglected Noah's Ark for
Amphibians
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
507-514.
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Ecology
Feeding Ecology of the Milksnake (Lampropeltis
triangulum, Colubridae) in the Western United
States
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
515-522.
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Behavior
Prey Chemical Discrimination by the Desert
Nightsnake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea): A Comparison of Invertebrate and
Vertebrate Prey
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
523-526.
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Conservation
Elucidating Predator–Prey Interactions Using
Aquatic Microcosms: Complex Effects of a Crayfish Predator, Vegetation, and
Atrazine on Tadpole Survival and Behavior
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
527-534.
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Behavior
Female Preferences Are Not Altered by Early
Acoustic Experience in the Neotropical Frog Physalaemus
pustulosus
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
535-538.
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Ecology
Spatial Ecology and Habitat Use of the Western
Foxsnake (Pantherophis vulpinus) on Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge
(Missouri)
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
539-548.
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Temporal Patterns of Reproductive Activity and
Site Attachment of the Brilliant-Thighed Frog Allobates femoralis from
Central Amazonia
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
549-554.
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Relation between Parasitism, Stress, and Fitness
Correlates of the Eastern Foxsnake (Pantherophis gloydi) in
Ontario
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
555-561.
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Diet Composition and Food Preferences in Adult
Common Toads (Bufo bufo) (Amphibia: Anura:
Bufonidae)
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
562-567.
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Systematics
Genetic and Reproductive Evidence of Natural
Hybridization between the Sister Species Rhinella atacamensis and
Rhinella arunco (Anura, Bufonidae)
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
568-577.
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Conservation
Ecology and Conservation of the Turks Island Boa
(Epicrates chrysogaster chrysogaster: Squamata: Boidae) on Big Ambergris
Cay
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
578-586.
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Physiology
Do Higher Temperatures Increase Growth in the
Nocturnal Gecko Homonota darwini (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae)? A
Skeletochronological Assessment Analyzed at Temporal and Geographic
Scales
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
587-595.
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Ecology
Long-Term Use of Hibernacula by Northern
Pinesnakes (Pituophis melanoleucus)
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
596-601.
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Contrasting Genetic Differentiation of a Poorly
Dispersing Lizard in Connected and Fragmented Scrub
Habitats
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
602-607.
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Vegetation Refuges of a Sand Lizard Assemblage in
Temperate Coastal Sand Dunes
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
608-613.
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Systematics
Description of the Tadpole of Hylodes
magalhaesi (Bokermann, 1964) (Anura: Hylodidae)
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
614-619.
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Physiology
Thermal Biology and Temperature Selection in
Juvenile Lizards of Co-occurring Native and Introduced Anolis
Species
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
620-624.
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Conservation
Effects of the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus and Four
Insecticides on Pacific Treefrogs (Pseudacris
regilla)
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
625-631.
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Ecology
Seasonal Reproduction in the Rock Gecko
Phyllopezus pollicaris from a Rock Field Habitat in Southeastern
Brazil
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
632-636.
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Physiology
Digestive Performance in the Timber Rattlesnake
(Crotalus horridus) with Reference to Temperature Dependence and
Bioenergetic Cost of Growth
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
637-642.
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Disruption to Recovery Metabolism in the Fence
Lizard Sceloporus occidentalis Infected with the Malarial Parasite
Plasmodium mexicanum
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
643-647.
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The Differential Effect of Tail Autotomy on
Sprint Performance between the Sexes in the Lizard Uta
stansburiana
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
648-652.
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Toxicological and Histological Evaluation of
Bothrops itapetiningae Venom
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
653-657.
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Conservation
Terrestrial Movement Patterns of the Common Toad
(Bufo bufo) in Central Spain Reveal Habitat of Conservation
Importance
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D.
R. Daversa, E. Muths, and
J.
Bosch
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
658-664.
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Long Distance Migrations, Landscape Use, and
Vulnerability to Prescribed Fire of the Gopher Frog (Lithobates
capito)
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
665-670.
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Ecology
Habitat Choice of Palestine Saw-Scaled Viper
(Echis coloratus) in an Extreme Environment
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
671-674.
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Conservation
Multiple Stressors and Amphibians: Contributions
of Adverse Health Effects and Altered Hydroperiod to Population Decline and
Extinction
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
675-681.
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Ecology
Habitat Selection by Crawfish Frogs
(Lithobates areolatus) in a Large Mixed Grassland/Forest
Habitat
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
682-688.
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Reproductive Ecology and Human-Caused Mortality
in the Japanese Mamushi Snake (Gloydius blomhoffii) on the Northernmost
Main Island of Japan
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
689-695.
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JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
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Journal of Herpetology Dec 2012, Vol. 46, No. 4:
696-706.
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