ALLEGED BIGFOOT TRACKWAY IN MAINE

ALLEGED RUSSIAN BHM FOOTAGE

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.

• Bewick's swans: Baby boost for threatened birds
• Possums eating rare birds
• Critically endangered parakeets back from the brin...
• Harrier deaths renew calls for continued windfarm ...

DALE DRINNON: Zimbabwe monster, Cedar & Willow, Benny's Blogs

New at Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/12/sightings-increase-of-zimbabwes-own.html

New at Cedar and Willow:

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2012/12/avengers-continued.html

New at Benny's Blog for Thelma Todd:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/death-of-thelma-todd-la-times-pt-6.html

New at Benny's Blog, the Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/prince-violent.html

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.

NEWSLINK: The puzzling extinction of the sabre-too...

NEWSLINK: Tigers roar back: Good news for big cats...

I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

I have to admit that I am very much enjoying doing as little as possible this week. I don't usually get the opportunity, and I am relishing it a lot.

An interview with out favourite poet - no, not Keats; Texas Thom!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/an-interview-with-thom-world-poet.html

Steve Howe is looking forward to the forthcoming Yes tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/link-yes-steve-howe-looking-forward-to.html

It is always good to have an excuse to play this song by Eric Burdon, so I have made it the Gonzo track of the day
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/gonzo-daily-track-of-day-eric-burdon.html

Our daily visit to Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html

The last portion of Christmas music for this year is from Helen McCookerybook
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/countdown-from-christmas.html

Listen to this podcast featuring Michael Des Barres
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/12/michael-des-barres-podcast.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 - 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

Yesterday’s News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1795 construction began on Yonge street in what would become Toronto, Canada. Yonge Street was, and by some estimates still is, the longest street in the world and was formally recognised as such in the Guinness book of Records.

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Robert “Philip Marlowe” Mitchum sings The Ballad of Thunder Road (on a related note, Mitchum's version of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is vastly superior to the Bogart and Bacall one and you all should watch it; it's free on Love Film and probably the inferior Netflix too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdwUpxkfSJw