From CFZ Canada:
- Scientific Cryptozoology — The philosophy of scientific inquiry according to Charles Sanders Peirce (pictured above) and others...
Monday, October 29, 2012
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From CFZ Canada:
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
On this
day in 1938 Orson Welles, best known these days for his role as the narrator in
the 1980s animated transformers film, broadcast his radio play of H.G. Wells'
War of the Worlds. The play told the story of alien invasion through a series of
faux news bulletins and this fooled many American's who had missed the start
into thinking the Earth really was being invaded.
And now
the news:
The
play in full, epic even today:
SHERI'S BLOG: Day 3 – Sunday
As it was a Sunday, we had a slightly shorter day. I did not
begin work until two hours later than I have done previously. The day’s routine
began, much with same as it has done over the last couple of days, with
blogging and then the animal rounds.
Work then resumed on the editing of the new version of
‘Mysterious Creatures’ by George Eberhart. We completed all of the initial
sections, as well as making a start on formatting the letter-designating
chapters.
Wine was served up with tea and we decided to call a day on
the office work. Afterwards, we went out on another big cat hunt. We turned
back around after we had realised that we had accidentally ended up in Cornwall .
The culmination of all the wildlife spotted over the last
few nights has been a rabbit, a frog and an owl, respectively. However, I
remain determined to continue the search in hope and not be deterred by a few
disappointing evenings.
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.
WHILST WORKING ON THE NEW EDITION OF EBERHART'S 'MYSTERIOUS CREATURES WE GOT AS FAR AS...
Altamaha-Ha
FRESHWATER MONSTER of Georgia (USA).
Etymology: After the river.
Physical description: Length, 10–25 feet. Diameter, 10–12 inches. Smooth, gray-brown skin. Small head. Long neck. Two or three humps
We were checking the url references when we found this...
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FRESHWATER MONSTER of Georgia (USA).
Etymology: After the river.
Physical description: Length, 10–25 feet. Diameter, 10–12 inches. Smooth, gray-brown skin. Small head. Long neck. Two or three humps
We were checking the url references when we found this...
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I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
And so another week begins. The highspot of the next seven days is a 'Fun Day' at Barnstaple Museum featuring quite a few of the gang. Sheri has apparently brought a Catwoman mask with her as it is Hallowe'en, and this year we shall be having a smashing Samhain. In other news I am interviewing Martin Birke from the marvellous 'Genre Peak' tonight at 9 (or it might be 8 because the clocks went back), and Annie Haslam is back in the saddle, albeit wearing a medieval sounding back brace...
We kick off the week with a visit to the home of Thom the World Poet
Next year there will be a mega festival in Australia which features Gonzofolk like Jon Anderson and Roger Hodgson, as well as Robert Plant..
As regular readers will be aware, Annie Haslam has suffered a back injury, but like the trouper she is, she is back on stage again..
A review of Jefferson Starship in Paris the other week..
Eric Burdon is 71 but still one of my favourite singers..
Postman don't bring me no more blues. But bring me a massive parcel of Gonzothings
My favourite magazine 'The Word' ceased publication earlier this year, but David Hepworth is keeping the 'Word in your Ear' gigs alive and kicking..
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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 1618 Walter Raleigh was beheaded on the pretext of treason, in reality it
was to appease the Spanish who were after revenge after all the privateering and
such like Raleigh and his cousins Drake and Grenville and their buddy Hawkins
had engaged in.
And now
the news:
A
factually inaccurate reconstruction of Raleigh's life (the ending is ace though)
: