Tuesday, December 04, 2012
CFZ PEOPLE: Enfys Carney
DALE DRINNON: Scott Mardis/Cedar & Willow/Benny's Blogs
New on the Frontiers of Zoology:http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/12/another-article-posted-by-scott-mardis.html
New at Cedar and Willow:
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/12/brown-family-part-2.html
http://cedar-and-will...
And on Benny's Blog, the Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/noel-neill-and-queen-neola.html
And another comic story find on the Thelma Todd blog:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/paulette-goddard-fantasy.html
THIS CHRISTMAS FROM CFZ PUBLISHING GROUP: Hyaku-Monogatari (Tales of Japanese Horror) by Richard Freeman
In Edo Period Japan, the game of Hyakumonogatari - or one hundred stories - was a popular pastime. A hundred candles in blue lanterns were lit and placed on a table before a mirror. Each person would tell a story of a ghost, monster or strange occurrence, then blow out one of the candles. When the last candle was blown out it was said that a horned blue spirit, Aoandon, would manifest in the mirror.
Hyakumonogatari grew so popular that in 1908 the Japanese government forbade the telling of horror stories. Doubtless the gatherings carried on as a clandestine thrill, and what stories must have been told!
Japanese folklore is the strangest on earth. Its monsters and its ghosts (collectively known as yokai) outstrip any other culture in their sheer weirdness.
Here, in the first of a four-volume collection, is the beginning of a modern Hyakumonogatari. This menagerie of yokai includes hair-eating horrors, spawning dragon-gods, zombie whales, venomous rats, cannibal skeletons with slime-mould brains, ancient hominans, perverse water imps, devils of straw and monsters of cloth.
Sick of vampires and werewolves? This night parade of Japanese daemons will re-light your love of horror with a whole pantheon of new ghosts and monsters from the pen of Richard Freeman who brought you the acclaimed horror collection Green Unpleasant Land
CRYPTOLINK: Bigfoot Genome?
When a company
announced last week that they had sequenced the Bigfoot genome, it seemed too
good to be true. And probably is.
In the press
release, DNA Diagnostics claimed that Texas veterinarian Melba Ketchum had
sequenced the DNA of Bigfoot (aka Sasquatch). The company stated that the
sequencing results confirm that Bigfoot exists and is a “novel hominin hybrid
species...a human relative that arose approximately 15,000 years ago as a hybrid
cross of modern Homo sapiens with an unknown primate species.” So, do Bigfoot enthusiasts have reason to rejoice? Well, not just yet.
In response, the science blogosphere erupted with skepticism, and even ridicule, of Ketchum and her team. The press release is short on details and states that the study is still under peer review. So, no one can get a look at the actual data. Without that, it’s impossible to evaluate Ketchum’s claims.
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.- Penguin-like bird hanging out at Lovers Point in P...
- Birds may spread, not halt, fever-bearing ticks
- New homes could see £20 million a year boost to wi...
- Imperiled Birds To Benefit From Land Purchase In K...
- Rare sandhill cranes move to new Miss. home
- WARNING! Bird lovers of ANY kind. Teflon fumes wil...
I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN
So today lurches forward into the unknown. I am not
over-fond of this time of year: it is cold, expensive and
ever-so-slightly-tedious. I will be very glad in a month's time when the days are slowly getting longer and the first frogspawn is in the ditches....
We start off today with a visit to the incomparable
Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html
Harold has just sent me this updated 'Electric Man'
trailer
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/uypdated-electric-man-trailer-now-with.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/uypdated-electric-man-trailer-now-with.html
Over on Barbara Dickson's website there is a
competition going on
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-competition-at-barbara-dicksons.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-competition-at-barbara-dicksons.html
The other night I sat down to watch the GPS DVD. It
really is jolly good
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/finding-my-way-to-gps.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/finding-my-way-to-gps.html
A few days back Helen and the Horns were at the
Camden Eye. Martin Stephenson was there with a camera....
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/helen-and-horns-gig-at-camden-eye-by.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/helen-and-horns-gig-at-camden-eye-by.html
A really rather groovy review of Liam Davison
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-liam-davison-review.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-liam-davison-review.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 - imaginitavely - 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 - imaginitavely - 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
On this
day in 1872 the Mary Celeste was found abandoned with no sign of any incident
that would have caused her crew to abandon ship.
Scary Mary: