Friday, January 18, 2013
TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS
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 Stochastic Scientist: Can broken tee...
NEWSLINK: The Peterborough panther! Cuddly toy spo...
NEWSLINK: A cat can look like a king – majestic Us...
SIGHTINGS TV: Big cat sighting in Irvine
UK SIGHTING: Panther-like creature seen stalking c...
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.
- Charlotte airport works to reduce plane, bird hits...
- Lower bird species numbers attributed to two-year ...
- Felled trees in Petaluma worry birders
DALE DRINNON: Plesiosaurs, Cedar & Willow, Benny's Blog
New at Frontiers of Zoology:
New at Cedar and Willow:
And New at Benny's Blog, the Ominous Octopus Omnibus:
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
- Cryptozoology vs. Parapsychology — Matt Bille on high-strangeness cases...
- Australian Big Cats facelift — A newly refurbished website...
MORE ON THE ORANGE CAT
"Pan! Io Pan!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the seaFrom Sicily and from Arcady!" for orange cat.
Robert Schneck (After Aleister Crowley)
I'M YER GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
We have a problem this morning. The water
in the caecilian tank has turned pinkish. The animals therein appear to be OK,
but this is worrying. On testing the water chemistry it appears that SWWA have
put chlorine in our water without telling us. Graham is on the 'phone to Max as
I type. In other news, the orange cat seems to be recovering nicely, and I am so
engrossed in Keith Richard's autobiography that I was up until nearly 4:00am
reading. And - by the way - the winter has finally arrived. It is
snowing...
Graham reports on some interesting developments in
the Hawkwind camp
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/hawkwind-warriors-on-edge-of-easter.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/hawkwind-warriors-on-edge-of-easter.html
Eric Burdon reveals the truth behind one of his
most famous records
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-theyll-hate-me-even-more-eric.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-theyll-hate-me-even-more-eric.html
Eric Norlander posts another video from the Live at
Gettysburg DVD
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/after-revolution-erik-norlander-live-in.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/after-revolution-erik-norlander-live-in.html
My brother-in-law sent us this Frank Zappa
story
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-frank-zappa-score-joins-rest-is.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/link-frank-zappa-score-joins-rest-is.html
All the latest news from those jolly nice people at
Galileo Records
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/galileo-records-news.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/galileo-records-news.html
Our daily visit to our friend Thom the World Poet,
who is someone of whom I am really getting rather fond.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_18.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_18.html
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Quiet
Rebellion
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-quiet-rebellion.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-gonzo-track-of-day-quiet-rebellion.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 which he shares with various fish and batrachians. 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 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 which he shares with various fish and batrachians. 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
On this
day in 1934 Raymond Briggs was born. Briggs is best known for his illustrated
tales of terror aimed at children coving subjects like the aftermath of nuclear
war, bogeymen named Fungus and snowmen that come to life and abduct
children.
And now
the news:
Here's a trailer for the film version of Fungus
the Bogeyman: