Sunday, July 28, 2013
MICK FARREN has left the building
We at Gonzo / CFZ are sad to say the earlier unconfirmed reports about Mick Farren are correct - and that he has died after collapsing on stage last night.
Andy Colquhoun (member of the Deviants) and wife Helga have now confirmed the news.
On Facebook, Andy said this afternoon:
The Deviants and friends all over the world are deeply shocked and saddened after Mick collapsed on stage last night and never regained consciousness, despite heroic efforts by the ambulance crew. Goodbye old friend.
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.DALE DRINNON: New at the Frontiers of Zoology - Gambo And Ambo, etc
New at the Frontiers of Zoology:http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/07/bruce-champagnes-sailfin.html
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/07/gambo-and-ambon-another-point-of-view.html
New at Benny's blog for Thelma Todd:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/07/theater-row-in-lawrence-massachusetts.html
CRYPTOLINK: Craig Woolheater Excites Crowd at Museum of the Weird With SquatchIt Bigfoot Call Demonstration
A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.
Cryptomundo.com's Craig Woolheater excited the crowd at Saturday's Minnesota Iceman Unveiling event at Austin's Museum of the Weird with his SquatchIt Sasquatch caller demonstration. Craig's demonstration of the SquatchIt was met with excitement and positive responses. Several visitors inquired about when SquatchIt would be available for sale.
“The reaction was overwhelmingly positive to the SquatchIt demo. I was asked by several people, ‘Where I can I get one’ and ‘When will the be available’. I told everyone that our crowd funded initiative will launch this month before the end of July 2013,” says Craig Woolheater, creator of cryptomndo.com and SquatchIt Bigfoot call partner.
Craig Woolheater is the creator of CryptoMundo.com is the world’s most popular and authoritative website on the subject of Sasquatch and Bigfoot frequented by of some of the most respected leaders in the field of Cryptozoology.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS ON HIS WAY BACK TO DEVON
Graham here again, currently seeking some info on the Web about Deviants performer Mick Farren. A couple of personal reports - one on a music forum and one on a Yahoo Newsgroup - say he collapsed on stage last night, but otherwise there's a strange silence regarding the story. Even the normally-prolific Internet Rumour Mill has nothing to say about it at present.
I'll continue to check it out.
So... What's new on the Gonzo Daily?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com
MICK FARREN taken ill, say unconfirmed reports
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/mick-farren-taken-ill-say-unconfirmed.html
US singer-songwriter JJ Cale dies, aged 74
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/us-singer-songwriter-jj-cale-dies-aged.html
JUDY DYBLE reviewed on MUSOSCRIBE
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/judy-dyble-at-musoscribe.html
LINK: Accrington legend Jon Anderson to perform Manchester show
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/link-accrington-legend-jon-anderson-to.html
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_27.html
STEVE MILLER BAND TRIBUTE FEATURES MEMBERS OF YES, ASIA, DEEP PURPLE
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/steve-miller-band-tribute-features.html
Today's Track of the Day is a video of Fish performing in Holland
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/gonzo-track-of-day-various-bizarre.html
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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 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
Yesterday’s News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 2004 Professor Francis Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the molecular structure of DNA, died.
And now the news:
When you search for DNA on youtube you get a horrid song by a crap band called Little Mix who quite frankly sound like they've been gargling with hot chip fat, so I decided to cleanse my ears with a good song afterwards... Here is the good song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAbZzdalZh4