Thursday, October 11, 2012
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 2012 Pokemon Black and White version 2 is released, something Max and
myself have been looking forward to for some time.
And now
the news:
- Irish oil could soon be extracted
- Dartmoor hill ponies numbers 'drop to 850'
- Gopher Frog Habitat Designation Called ‘Land Grab'...
- Drakes Drum slow worm colony to move to a new home...
- Virunga deforestation revealed by NASA photos
- Regenerated Lizard Tails Are Different from Origin...
- Oahu Invasive Species Group Probes Coqui Reports –...
- Most Whale Deaths Since 1970 Were Human-Caused
Music from the Pokemon games performed by a
concert orchestra:
DALE DRINNON: Cedar and Willow/Benny's Blog
Odds and ends of links, still catching up
New at Cedar and Willow:
And two new ones for Benny's Ominous Octupus Omnibus blog:
And
WATCHER OF THE SKIES: Today's Fortean bird news
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.CRYPTOLINK: Hominids in thailand
Any self-respecting country laying claim to ‘wilderness areas’ has to have them! Reports of large ape-like creatures emanate from remote mountain and forest areas of every continent bar Antarctica: the Sasquatch or Bigfoot of Canada and the United States, the yetis of Siberia, yowies of Australia and abominable snowmen of Tibet — and Southeast Asia, with its stretches of dense and often little-known jungle, is not immune.
What lies beneath?
Malaysia in particular has persistent reports of creatures at home in Endau Rompin national park, or check out this report from Setapak forest. Laos and Vietnam have sightings of ‘hairy wild-men’ from the Truong Son mountains along the remote border area (see here) and Cambodia, the Kulen yeti.
With an estimated 15% forest cover, Thailand is not traditionally a yeti hotspot, but we uncovered similar legends on a visit to Nan province’s Mae Charim national park. Mae Charim lies in a mountainous region of eastern Nan, backing onto the Lao border, and contains extensive forest area and very few inhabitants.
Rom Khlao Village
Read on...
INAPPROPRIATE CORNER: Italian supermarket attacked for ‘selling offensive wine bottles with Hitler on the label’
A woman whose relatives died in Auschwitz says she was shocked to discover wine bottles featuring images of Hitler in an Italian supermarket. Cindy Hirsch from Philadelphia, U.S. was holidaying with her husband Michael in Garda, northern Italy, when the couple spotted the wine bottle labels featuring pictures of the former Nazi leader.
One of the bottles being sold in a supermarket near their hotel was called 'Mein Kampf' after the right-wing dictator's famous book, another was called 'Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer' (one people, one empire, one Fuhrer).
Offensive: Cindy Hirsch from Philadelphia, U.S. was holidaying with her husband Michael in Garda, northern Italy, when the couple spotted spotted the Fuhrer wine bottle labels featuring pictures of the former Nazi leader
Other labels depicted Hitler in different poses including one in which he is shown making the Nazi salute. Another bottle featured an image of Pope John Paul II.
Read more: Read on...
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.Here is the latest tranche of news...
I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
And so another day begins. David B-P has been made redundant, the toads have settled in, Graham is having a couple of days off, and it seems that we won't get the car back until next week, and I am supposed to be filming Jefferson Starship on tuesday. Life is generally crappy, but I expect that it will get better.Yesterday evening I had a long chat with the ever lovely Helen McCookerybook, and - as always - what was supposed to be a ten minute conversation about a new limited edition release of hers, became a long and rambling chat during which we talked of cabbages and kings until I realised that we had been talking for over half an hour. During this chat she told me about her friend Acton Bell, with whom she has done a number of gigs and also is organising the very groovy sounding Club Artyfarle which seems like an event after my own heart. So, being a nosy bugger, I typed Acton's name into Youtube, and ladies and gentlemen I am smitten! She has an extraordinary talent which is unlike anyone else I have heard in yonks.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/actons-sunday-with-helen.html
Yesterday I had a jolly e-mail from Liz Lenten who is remarkably upbeat, probably because she is off on tour with Jefferson Starship. I shall be talking to her at 4:00 so expect more news...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-email-from-liz-lenten.html
And whilst on the subject of the Jefferson Starship tour here is a rather nifty poster I found...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/jefferson-starship-pat-mcmanus-auburn.html
I have received so many emails over the past few days about Michael Des Barres and his current projects, that I felt that we should do an interview with him quickly before his life got any more complicated. So I dropped him a quick email, and ten minutes later we were chatting. He began by saying all sorts of nice things about the Gonzo Daily...
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/exclusive-interview-michael-des-barres.html
Our daily visit to the remarkable abode of Thom the World Poet; a man whom I admire very much
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_11.html
Yesterday afternoon the ever attentive Mr Ayling sent me a link to a documentary about Ginger Baker. We have to run this he said. So I have.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/10/beware-of-mr-baker.html
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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 1982 the Tudor warship, The Mary Rose was salvaged from the sea bed of
the Solent where she had lain since the 16th century.
And now
the news:
- Lowland heath restoration in Staffordshire – Volun...
- Tanzania seeks to sell stockpiled ivory
- Sasquatch sighting by Nunavik berry pickers
- Researchers Discover Bacteria That Produces Pure G...
- Panic in Devon as 800 are cut by razor shells
- Rare moth reintroduced into Cotswolds
This
is good if you're lazy; follow this link to visit the new Mary Rose Museum
without having to bother leaving your pc: