Think about it: you live in the mountains, it's freezing, you're not exactly a dish and you've got sherpas showing adventure-seekers from the West roughly where you live. You've gone underground. You used to let people see you all the time. Let's face it: you're bigger and hairier than most people you come into contact with so why not? What have you to be scared of?
All that changed, though, when you became famous, and now you just want to be left alone. Can't anyone relate to you and what you're going through? One government made a bit of an effort.
According to a recent article in Stylist magazine, archivists have recently discovered a memo from the American embassy in Nepal titled Regulations Governing Mount Climbing Expeditions in Nepal - Relating to Yeti. The 1959 document says that the Abominable Snowman may be 'caught alive but it must not be killed or shot at, except in an emergency rising out of self defence.' The memo was thought to have been released in response to what Stylist magazine's unnamed columnist calls 'yeti fever' in Nepal in the 1950s.
So the American ambassador showed willing, but since the document 'relating to yeti' advises you can be caught alive or potentially shot, it does look like your Persecution Complex is well-founded. Poor old yeti....
Saturday, March 30, 2013
KARL SHUKER - A SNAKE-HEADED DOG IN CALIFORNIA?
Karl Shuker sticks his neck out to investigate an alleged snake-headed dog in California.
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.- Hundreds of dead puffins have washed up on east co...
- Release of 44 rare birds 'historic'
- RSPB teams up with Ecotricity to protect wildlife
- Officials hope to finish diesel cleanup before bir...
- Boy, 10, raises money for endangered birds
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
- Texan Terrors on the Loose — The wolfmen and werewolves of Texas...
- The Origins of a Monster — The history of the Abominable Snowman...
- The Cannock Nessie - 10 Years on — A giant, marauding crocodile in the English countryside...
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN ESCAPES
Today I am taking my life in my hand. A
whole slew of my adopted nephews and nieces are all in the sitting room, arguing
about zombies with Nick Wadham, and playing an aeroplane game on the Wii. This
afternoon there will be nine youngsters between the ages of 11-21, plus various
middle aged Fortean types. A lot of cake will be consumed. No, 'cake' is not a
euphemism. Will my nerves survive it?
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Hardboiled
Wonderland
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/gonzo-track-of-day-hardboiled.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/gonzo-track-of-day-hardboiled.html
Once again we repair to Austin for our daily
audience with Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html
A nifty Zenit review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/zenit-review.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/zenit-review.html
Helen and Martin et al pay tribute to Jefferson
Starship
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/far-out-man.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/far-out-man.html
Whilst on the subject of San Fransisco's finest,
here is a specialist article claiming that you should listen to them when
'high'. I am 6 foot 7. Is that 'high' enough?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-top-music-to-listen-to-while-high.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-top-music-to-listen-to-while-high.html
I really like the debut album by 'The Green
Violinist'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-green-violinist-debut-album-release.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-green-violinist-debut-album-release.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
* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links
to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are
not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites.
Honest guv!
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cats?
* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 53 who - together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not very small orange kitten (who isn't) puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish, and sometimes a small Indian frog. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention the orange cats?
OLL LEWIS:Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 2002 the Queen Mother died. The queen mother was a big fan of whelks and
every Thursday evening would insist that at least one member of her personal
staff would dress up as the mollusc and walk the corridors of Glamis Castle
reciting the Shakespeare play “MacBeth”, which was set there, before a large dog
was set upon them. To this day the title of the Master Wrangler of the Royal
Thespian Man-Whelk is one of the most sought after positions in the royal staff
even though it has been largely ceremonial since the queen mother's
death.
And now
the news:
The dog
whelk: