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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
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.DALE DRINNON: Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
As announced yesterday, I am starting a series on Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings
at Frontiers of Anthropolgy. Today we are covering the basics.http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/04/russian-article-on-northern-origins.html
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http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/04/more-maps-of-ancient-sea-kings-part-2.html
TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS ROUNDUP
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.THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS COMPLIANT
On September 11th 2001 I had a reasonably
heavy cold and had decided to spend the day in bed. I was self-medicating with
a bottle of milk from the Kentucky cow when the telephone rang. It was Tim
Matthews, the notorious British ufologist. "Don't say a thing, switch on BBC1.
I'll 'phone you back!" he said, and rang off. I did as I was told. Stunned, I
watched the horrific events at the World Trade Centre. That was 12 years ago.
This evening, I re-read the final chapters of Nelson DeMille's novel Nightfall.
This is a gripping thriller which ends with most of the protagonists being
killed at the Twin Towers, and I re-lived my own experiencing of that dreadful
day.
Nelson DeMille is one of my favourite authors and for no
particular reason, I am re-reading his 'John Corey' novels, basically in order.
However, last night, I was hit - once again - by the true enormity of human
tragedy of that terrible day. Somehow, from the safety of my little house in
North Devon, cushioned by brandy, an intermittent conversation about family
matters with my beloved mother-in-law, and the BBC IPlayer Nick Drake tribute,
the event seemed more terrible, even more horrific, and DeMille's writing seemed
even more spot on. I don't know why I'm telling you this, because the blogs I
write are either about cryptozoology or about rock music, but Nightfall - like
the others in the series - is a bitching good book, and DeMille, if you have not
heard of him, is an author who will repay investigation. That's all.
Our daily visit to the world of Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Tangerine Dream
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/gonzo-track-of-day-tangerine-dream.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/gonzo-track-of-day-tangerine-dream.html
Helen McCookerybook reviews monday's show
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/helen-mccookerybook-mondays-gig-at.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/helen-mccookerybook-mondays-gig-at.html
Geoff Downes on the prospects of a new Yes album
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/yes-geoff-downes-weve-discussed.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/yes-geoff-downes-weve-discussed.html
King Crimson live in Hyde Park, 1969, supporting the Stones
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-didnt-even-know-this-existed-i-wonder.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-didnt-even-know-this-existed-i-wonder.html
A Polish review of Zenit
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/polish-review-of-zenit.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/04/polish-review-of-zenit.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
* 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?
MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Chinese Sea Monster?
There has been a debate on Hong Kong Wildlife.Net
recently as to whether or not fishermen found the remains of a sea monster off
the Yellow Sea, OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
On this
day in 1916 Ernest Shackleton launched a lifeboat from Elephant island as part
of his bid to save the crew of his stricken vessel the
Endurance.
And now
the news:
For
a brief period in the late 80s and early 90s this sort of thing was the height
of cool: