Sundays are a special time
when I produce this blog in rhyme
sometimes to people's bemusement
always for my own amusement
I know that it is now't but doggerel,
and sometimes my rhymes are worse than horrible
but this is a tradition that never ends
of bad poetry between friends
So now the posts have just begun
with Judy Dyble and a terrible pun
and computer issues that don't fit
technofear and the lowest form of wit
Jefferson Starship are great fun,
with their singer Cathy Richardson,
and I've got great news for you here
they're touring again for us next year
And now we go to Austin City
where the poets are great and the girls our pretty
and we do what we do every day,
go see Thom the World Poet wayhay!
Now here's a video to please
Rick Wakeman in Buenos Aires
(the land of Carmen Miranda's birth)
playing Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Now something important I must say
Newsletter #3 went out yesterday
and from the hgits we got last night
I guess I'm doing something right
And lastly time to take a look
at vids of Ms McCookerybook
Helen and the Horns - a band that's fine
there's lots more stuff of theirs online
And that's it from this rhyming freak
I'll be back again like this next week
but if you cannot keep away
there's gonzo postings every day
* 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
* 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?
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.
New
At Frontiers of Zoology:
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.
In Search of a British Man-Beast: The huge forests of the United States are home to Sasquatch. The Abominable Snowman roams the Himalayas. Australia has a similar beast, the Yowie. In China there lurks a giant, bipedal creature called the Yeren. From the Caucasus Mountains in Eurasia stories of the Almas circulate. And then there’s the highly controversial matter of Bigfoot in Britain.
Sundays are a special time