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Most of us have heard of Nessie, the purported creature-in-residence in Loch Ness, Scotland, but what about the monsters of America? According to Weather.com, the United States has its own lake monster named Champ, who lives in Lake Champlain near Vermont.
Champ has been been "spotted" hundreds of times, and is described as being between 20-80 feet with a serpentine body, distinct humps and a dog-like face. The monster has made waves throughout history. Champ is said to have first been spotted by French explorer Samuel Champlain, sought after by P.T. Barnum and is even protected New York and Vermont state governments.
Read on...
Thursday, July 11, 2013
SPINY NORMAN LIVES
It seems that the paranoia that gripped criminal gang kingpin Dinsdale Piranha (of the Piranha Brothers, as revealed by Monty Python http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64aVHzoSdaI)
was based on fact after all. His fear of Spiny Norman the colossal hedgehog was well founded.
There really IS a giant hedgehog that stalks the streets of London's East End. I caught sight of it here, in a street just of Bethnell Green
Road, at the top of Brick Lane.
DALE DRINNON: Gigantopithecus, Bigfoot, Frontiers of Anthropology et al.
New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:
New at Benny's blog for Thelma Todd:
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS ON A SHORT ANABASIS
Graham here today, with a slightly later than planned Gonzo Update, partly because of assisting with Jon's departure with Corinna and her mother. While away, they're going to be attending a wedding. During their absence I'm experimenting with a slow-cook casserole. It's just a beef and potato stew, really, with a load of veg thrown in. And I cheated by adding a packet of casserole mix!
And, er, talking of mixes, here's the Gonzo Daily
updates...
Yes’ Steve Howe Says Band Is Loving Playing Full
Albums In Concert
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/yes-steve-howe-says-band-is-loving.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/yes-steve-howe-says-band-is-loving.html
The Gonzo Track of the Day is Mona (1969) -
Quicksilver Messenger Service
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/gonzo-track-of-day-mona-1969.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/gonzo-track-of-day-mona-1969.html
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Helen at Glastonbury
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/cabinet-of-curiosities-helen-at.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/cabinet-of-curiosities-helen-at.html
REVIEW OF 'THE DUTCH WOODSTOCK'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/review-of-dutch-woodstock.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/review-of-dutch-woodstock.html
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World
Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_11.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_11.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 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?
BIDEFORD ART TREK
Retro-perspectives
You are invited to visit our
Art Trek exhibition at 3-4 Torridge View, Meddon Street, Bideford, EX39 2EG. We
are a short walk from the pannier market and close to the town centre. Our
exhibition is open on Thursdays 11th and 18th, Saturdays 13th and 20th and
Sundays 14th and 21st between 10.30am and 4.30pm. We would love to see you and
chat about the work on show which includes previously unseen polaroid images and
small sculptures on the theme of photography by Sarah and paintings and work in
progress by Neil. Expect some unexpected items and discover a hidden part of
Bideford.
For more information contact
Sarah Boait or Neil Jeffers on 01237 479265
full details of the event
are available on www.northdevontheatres.org.uk/art-trek.php
we look forward to seeing
you, please feel free to forward this message to anyone you know who may be
interested.
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.OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 1980 I was born, a momentous day in history indeed and why everything prior to this date is known by the sort of historians that make documentaries of them talking to camera in Castley Fields as the “Before Time”.
And now the news:
Indeed, my birth was foretold many years before as this video clip shows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2huJqFsFDE