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Tuesday, June 04, 2013
OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH HIM
Requires a pacemaker: David Attenborough.
Sir David Attenborough is going in for emergency heart surgery, after being told by his doctor he is in urgent need of a pacemaker. The news came Tuesday afternoon, as it was announced his sell-out tour of Australia, due to start in Brisbane next week, had been cancelled. The 87-year-old veteran broadcaster and world leading naturalist was set to undergo surgery in London.
Read on...
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.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 took the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.Rare, Even Extinct Birds, Call on in Historic Reco...
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
- Monster Files: Review & Interview — A Q&A with Nick about his new book...
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS RELIEVED
And so the beat goes on. As you may know,
Olivia is moving out of my house in Exeter and being replaced by Matt and Emma
Osborne and their menagerie. Yesterday we took delivery of their collection of
rodents, as part of the pre-move sorting out. We shall be fostering them here
until Thursday. In the meantime, Emma asked Corinna if she wanted two girl rats
to replace Viv who died of a brain tumour some weeks ago. So what was my
mother's dining room and is now Corinna's office now has three girl rats
scampering about.
I don't like to argue with Mick Farren, but
in his massively entertaining and enlightening autobiography he is very scathing
about The Deviants' second album 'Disposable'. I got around to listening to it
for the first time about half an hour ago, and there are bits of it that I
really like. But then again (much to the chagrin of my family) I like atonal
stoned weirdness.
The Gonzo Track of the Day is from The Parish Music
Box
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-heavy-drinkers.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-heavy-drinkers.html
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World
Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html
Mick Farren at Rock's Back Pages
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/mick-farren-et-al-at-rocks-back-pages.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/mick-farren-et-al-at-rocks-back-pages.html
Bart Lancia told me about Yes' own festival
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/yes-announces-yestival-one-day-festival.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/yes-announces-yestival-one-day-festival.html
Merrell Fankhauser sent me this article about Ed
Cassidy from 'Modern Drummer' magazine
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/ed-cassidy-in-modern-drummer-mag-thanks.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/ed-cassidy-in-modern-drummer-mag-thanks.html
Vintage style with Grace Slick
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/link-vintage-style-grace-slick-of.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/link-vintage-style-grace-slick-of.html
And finally. Do I look like the kind of bloke who
will hi-jack a blog about music to make a political point? No, of course not;
this story is only in because of the involvement of Brian May from Queen.NOT!
Last year it was benefits claimants, the year before pedophiles, this year's
public enemy is Meles meles, the Eurasian badger.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-badger-song-by-queens-brian-may.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-badger-song-by-queens-brian-may.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 two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 cat?
* 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 two very small kittens (one of whom is also orange) 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 cat?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
On this
day in 1783 the Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrated their new invention,
the montgolfière, for the first time. The invention is
better known today as the hot air balloon.
And now
the news:
Balloons are cool: