Hi Jon,
Those are bumblebees mating in the film. It's an interesting
procedure.
http://science_boy.blogspot.com/2004/10/plight-of-bumble-bee-part-i.html
Thursday, August 29, 2013
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 are 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.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HIDES IN THE SHRUBBERY (AGAIN)
Yesterday afternoon we had a very welcome
visitor. My old friend Mike Davis, who I first met when he was hitchhiking from
Dawlish to Exeter back in 1982 turned up to do some recording. It was the first
time that we had made music together for the best part of twenty years, but we
were both pleased with the result. Hopefully it will see the light on my own
label via Gonzo before the end of the year. He returns this afternoon for a
second bash...
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World
Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html
Today's Track of the Day is by Man
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-man-bananas.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-man-bananas.html
Gordon Giltrap vs John Etheridge
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/john-etheridge-and-gordon-giltrap-video.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/john-etheridge-and-gordon-giltrap-video.html
STEPHEN STILLS: Storied Careers 'Ride' on at the
Trop Sunday
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/storied-careers-ride-on-at-trop-sunday.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/storied-careers-ride-on-at-trop-sunday.html
Patrick Moraz interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/interview-patrick-moraz-keyboardist.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/interview-patrick-moraz-keyboardist.html
Rick Wakeman to guest on Ayreon Theory of
Everything
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/rick-wakeman-to-guest-on-ayreon-theory.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/08/rick-wakeman-to-guest-on-ayreon-theory.html
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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 54 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 54 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?
DALE DRINNON: New "chamaeleon snake", Loch Ness, Frontiers of Anthropology, Benny's Blogs
New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:
New at Benny's blog for Thelma Todd:
Best Wishes, Dale D.
CFZ PEOPLE: Davey Curtis
Hands up who thinks Davey C is too young and pretty to be a grandfather....
THREE DAYS AGO!!!! He wrote:
Dear Jon,
My Granddaughter Amelia was born at 6.45 this morning weighing in at 6 pounds 15 oz.
Mother and daughter are doing well.
I think this calls for drinkypoos. (just a small sherry)
Regards
Davey C
Forgive me, old friend, for not having commented or congratulated you earlier, but there has been a whole slew of neice and nephew related issues. Congratulations to everyone.
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s
News Today
On this
day in 1939 the film director Joel Schumacher was born. Schumacher is best known
for almost destroying the Batman film franchise with “Batman and Robin”, which
is a shame as his planned follow up batman film was going to star the Mad
Hatter, the Joker and Harley Quin as the ne'er-d'-wells/rapscallions of the
piece so he might have redeemed himself, he hasn't just made bad films though;
his adaptation of the Phantom of the Opera musical is really
good.
And now
the news:
It's
hard to isolate the moment when Batman and Robin jumped the shark, “What killed
der dinozoors? Der ize age!” comes close but I think it has to be this
moment: