From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
- Brad Steiger Reviews Monster Diary — A thumbs-up for Nick's new book...
- Movie Monsters: A Top 20 — Many of a definitively cryptozoological nature...
- MIB, WIB, Monster — Women in Black and Chupacabras...
Friday, December 14, 2012
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
DALE DRINNON: Congo dragons,sabretooth sightings, Cedar & Willow, Benny's blogs
New at the Frontiers of Zoology: a couple of examples of possible "Congo
Dragons" as represented on African Rock Art (North and South):
New at Cedar and Willow, some new connections emerge:
And New at Benny's Blog, New Information regarding the association of The
Bowery Boy's "Whitey" with Captain Marvel (by Name!) on the Ominous Octopus
Omnibus:
And also another Editorial Cartoon:
KARL SHUKER - THE MEGALOPEDUS, THE SUKOTYRO, AND A VERY CRYPTIC CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
The good Doctor goes sleuthing in search of a fascinating (and very sizeable) yet long-forgotten mystery beast from Java - the sukotyro.
Read more...
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.- Florida Snake-Hunting Competition Targets Growing ...
- Tiree wind farm project 'on hold' for 12 months
- Videos: Rare Glimpses of Amazing Birds-of-Paradise...
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.I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN
Yesterday was spent doing shopping, including Christmassy stuff which was pretty horrible, so I amused myself in the queue by singing rude words to the Christmas songs which were being played over the PA system in Morrison's. The other news is that my old mate Jim Jackson appears to have won yesterday's election to Northam Town Council (as a Conservative no less), so I fully intend to have some fun with him. Last night mother ate curry for the first time, and washed it down with a glass of Kingfisher. I am very proud of her. We have a film director coming to tea this afternoon, and I am interviewing Michael Des Barres later on, so it looks like it will be a jolly day.
Michael Des Barres is on the bill for a special concert paying tribute to the Rolling Stones
The new limited edition coloured vinyl version of the new Galahad album is available, and it is a thing of wonder
Peter McAdam is ridiculously funny. If he was any funnier he would be made to have a Government Health Warning printed on his forehead reading "H.M Government warn that excessive consumption of Mr McAdam's work will lead to your sides splitting' or something like that
The third part of our interview with the lovely Judy Dyble
I am perfectly aware that this following story is off-topic but when Paul McCartney appears on stage with the surviving members of Nirvana and makes an elegantly brutal noise, it has to be noteworthy
And finally for today, our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
* 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 - imaginatively - 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 1911 Roald Amundsen and his expedition team became the first men to reach
the South Pole.
And now
the news:
I'd
like to say that 101 years ago today Amundsen and his rival in the race to the
Pole Scott (who lived about 2 minutes down the road from my house) were walking
in a winter wonderland, but my inner pedant won't let me as it was summer there
at the time it was also too cold to even snow (fact: as there is no
precipitation in central Antarctica it's the world's coldest and most southerly
desert, impress your friends by mentioning that in conversation today). Still,
this is a good song and vaguely linked if you don't think too hard about
it: