From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
- Nessie and the Paranormal — A paranormal angle to the beast of the loch?
- Strange Creatures Of Pennsylvania — A request for information...
- Cryptids at Mysterious Universe — No less than three new posts today...
Friday, September 21, 2012
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
FORTEAN LINK: Was the 'Little Blue Man' an Extraterrestrial?
The spooky tale of The Little Blue Man of Studham Common has caught the attention of Dutchman Theo Paijmans. He has been in touch with Dunstable and District Local History Society to try to find out more about this intriguing mystery. And an article from Theo in the society’s August newsletter revisits the oft-told tale.
Just to remind you, it all happened on a thundery day in the Studham area in late January, 1967. Six young boys from Studham School were playing on the common on their way to school. A few minutes after lightning struck, one boy saw a little blue man with a tall hat and a beard, and called to his friends, who also saw the mysterious figure. They began running towards the little man but he disappeared in a puff of smoke, then appeared in another spot, only to vanish again.
Just to remind you, it all happened on a thundery day in the Studham area in late January, 1967. Six young boys from Studham School were playing on the common on their way to school. A few minutes after lightning struck, one boy saw a little blue man with a tall hat and a beard, and called to his friends, who also saw the mysterious figure. They began running towards the little man but he disappeared in a puff of smoke, then appeared in another spot, only to vanish again.
CRYPTOLINK: Richard Owen, the “Sea-Serpent Killer”
Philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) argued that science should also consider “all prodigies and monstrous births of nature; of everything in short that is in nature new, rare and unusual“. So if you have a tale or post to share, unusual or not, for “The Giants’ Shoulders” history of science blog carnival, let me know until tomorrow evening, the carnival will then be ready for Monday.
And now, a weird tale about Monsters and Men, asHistory of Geology will in September-October feature a series of posts dedicated to the topic.
The Victorian paleontologist Richard Owen (1804-1892) is today often only remembered as father of the term “dinosaurs“, but his fields of interests included the anatomy of mammals, especially marsupials, the ox-like bones of birds from New Zealand, toads entombed in solid rock and even sea monsters.
WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Today's Fortean Bird News
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.
BIG CAT NEWS ROUNDUP
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
It has been one of those nights, as I
believe that The Eagles once said. However, although I can't remember the lyrics
of the song, I am sure it wasn't about staying up
all night to finish a typesetting certain book which shall remain nameless, only
to find that - just as the protagonist of the
song had finished - his computer crashed and mangled everything he had done in
the previous five hours, so he had to start
again. Maybe I should write a song in which that happened. I could call it 'Dr
Shuker's Mystery Cat Book Blues'. Whoops I have
let the (full colour) cat out of the bag!
Never mind. I am so wired now, I am not going to go
to bed until later, so I shall probably work right on through...
Magick is the idiot bastard son of art and science;
a discipline resulting in an esoteric brew of ritual, theory, practice and
belief. If a ‘magician’ is someone who does ‘magick’, then – although I would
never deign to call myself a magician – I know, and have known, quite a few
people who are. A magician whom I have never met, but who, ever since I was
given a bootleg tape of 1987 What the Fuck is Going On? in the year it was
released has been, if not an influence on my life, most certainly a mirror into
which I peered, is Bill Drummond. For Bill Drummond is most certainly a
magician.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-century-of-magickal-drummond.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-century-of-magickal-drummond.html
Our regular daily visit to the singular universe of
Thom the World Poet...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/rob-ayling-writes-thom-world-poet-is.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/rob-ayling-writes-thom-world-poet-is.html
After having had three days of sparkling
conversation with the lovely Annie Haslam, I was well chuffed to find a copy of
the cover of the new album that we have been hearing about all week...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-new-renaissance-album-cover.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-new-renaissance-album-cover.html
A link to an interesting and amusing article giving
five reasons why EVERYBODY should love Captain Beefheart...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/link-5-reasons-i-love-captain-beefheart.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/link-5-reasons-i-love-captain-beefheart.html
Michael Des Barres continues his series of calls to
arms in the Rock and Roll revolution. Most people would be being cynical if they
were to write a sentance like that in these degenerate days, but I mean every
word of it.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/communique-michael-des-barres-following.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/communique-michael-des-barres-following.html
My old mate Paul Whitrow has a single out, and I am
the editor so I am gonna damn well plug it relentlessly. It also happens to be
rather good...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-old-friend-of-us-all.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-old-friend-of-us-all.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 Editor 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, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
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 Editor 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, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cat?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
On this
day in 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien's book “The Hobbit” was first published.
And now
the news:
- Dog Shoots Man: Hunter's Hand Is Amputated
- City tweaks rewrite of animal ordinance
- Texas University Using Dogs In Fight Against Cance...
- China holds world's first beauty contest for goldf...
- Flight of The Mystery Drone: Bird ‘Bot Flew over I...
- Racoon that attacked dog had rabies
- There's life in the old dog yet as Battersea seeks...
- Now that's a heavy sleeper: Perfect imprint of an ...
- Obese elephants in Tamil Nadu given slimming help
- A guide to 10 of the world`s deadliest delicacies
- Croc-a-bye baby! British zoo's delight as 24 dwarf...
The
new trailer for Peter Jackson's film version of “The Hobbit” was released
earlier this week (they should have waited for today if you ask me) so here it
is if you've not seen it yet: