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Sunday, May 05, 2013
CRYPTOLINK: Creatures of the Causacus
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In the Caucasus Mountains, which separate Europe from the Middle East, live manlike creatures of which the outside world knows nothing.
Throughout the “taiga”, or boreal conifer forests which stretch from Scandinavia to the Bering Sea and beyond, come reports of animals not unlike the famous North American bigfoot. However, the creatures of the Caucasus appear to be a little smaller, a little more manlike, and a little more social.
As the following translation reveals, Russians first became aware of them after hearing news of the Himalayan “abominable snowmen”, and researchers over there still refer to their subjects as “snowmen”. In this field, the leading lights were Boris Porshnev (a brilliant polymath, according to a Russian mammalogist I spoke to), and Marie-Jeanne Koffmann (b 1919), a French-born Soviet citizen, surgeon, soldier, and mountaineer. The interview she gave in 1988 provides some background on her life – though not the six years she spent in prison, a victim of Stalin's last purge.
Read on..
In the Caucasus Mountains, which separate Europe from the Middle East, live manlike creatures of which the outside world knows nothing.
Throughout the “taiga”, or boreal conifer forests which stretch from Scandinavia to the Bering Sea and beyond, come reports of animals not unlike the famous North American bigfoot. However, the creatures of the Caucasus appear to be a little smaller, a little more manlike, and a little more social.
As the following translation reveals, Russians first became aware of them after hearing news of the Himalayan “abominable snowmen”, and researchers over there still refer to their subjects as “snowmen”. In this field, the leading lights were Boris Porshnev (a brilliant polymath, according to a Russian mammalogist I spoke to), and Marie-Jeanne Koffmann (b 1919), a French-born Soviet citizen, surgeon, soldier, and mountaineer. The interview she gave in 1988 provides some background on her life – though not the six years she spent in prison, a victim of Stalin's last purge.
Read on..
DAVEY CURTIS: I'll have a pint of what he's having
Dear Jon,
"A pint of your finest Thylacinus cynocephalus, stout Yeoman of the bar!"
Regards
D.C
"A pint of your finest Thylacinus cynocephalus, stout Yeoman of the bar!"
Regards
D.C
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.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES STUFF INCESSANTLY
It's sunday, so again it's time
to do
the Gonzo blogs in rhyme
not just 'cos it confuses, see
I do it 'cos it amuses me
not just 'cos it confuses, see
I do it 'cos it amuses me
But I should start, like some go-getter
and tell you about the new newsletter
which I hope is interesting, not a bore
cos we've got to issue 24
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-weekly-newsletter-24.html
and tell you about the new newsletter
which I hope is interesting, not a bore
cos we've got to issue 24
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-weekly-newsletter-24.html
Pam and Gary Windo I'll say
I've chosen as our track of the day
and underneath it (THANKS TO ME)
there's a link to their Gonzo CD
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-watch-out-for-bones.html
I've chosen as our track of the day
and underneath it (THANKS TO ME)
there's a link to their Gonzo CD
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-track-of-day-watch-out-for-bones.html
John Shuttleworth is a funny bloke
on Rob's front staircase once we spoke
and so I bring from me to you
a feature with a cool review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/review-john-shuttleworth-connaught.html
on Rob's front staircase once we spoke
and so I bring from me to you
a feature with a cool review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/review-john-shuttleworth-connaught.html
But let's now go to Austin City
where the Poets are good and the rhymes are pretty
to meet (as we do every day)
Thom The World Poet, shout Hooray!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_5.html
where the Poets are good and the rhymes are pretty
to meet (as we do every day)
Thom The World Poet, shout Hooray!
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_5.html
And now Bev Bevan and his big bass drum
and other chaps who come from Brum
have decided it's time to gather round
and celebrate that Midlands sound
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/made-in-brum.html
and other chaps who come from Brum
have decided it's time to gather round
and celebrate that Midlands sound
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/made-in-brum.html
If you read all the words I've spent
on
describing the music of Liz Lenten
you will probably realise that this man
of her band Auburn really is a fan
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-weekly-liz-lenten-talks-about-her.html
describing the music of Liz Lenten
you will probably realise that this man
of her band Auburn really is a fan
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/05/gonzo-weekly-liz-lenten-talks-about-her.html
And that's anough from this poetry
freak
the rhymes'll be back again next week
the rhymes'll be back again next week
Byeeeeeeeeeeeee
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* 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 his new orange kitten puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. 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 his new orange kitten puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon which he shares with various fish. 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 various years several Actors were born including Richard E. Grant (Bram
Stoker's Dracula, The Corpse Bride) in 1957, Jonathan Rhys-Davis (Indiana Jones,
Lord of the Rings) in 1944 and Michael Palin (Monty Python, Around the World in
80 days) in 1943.
And now
the news:
Sometime after Python Palin reinvented himself as
an explorer and his greatest achievement was matching the fictional achievement
of Phileas Fogg in travelling around the world in less than 80 days without the
use of aircraft: