Sunday, September 29, 2013
MUIRHEAD'S MYSTERIES: Chinese temple dragon?
I found this image a few weeks ago on a Chinese web site, supposedly showing
a
dragon in a Tibetan (?) temple. I cannot vouch for its authenticity.
dragon in a Tibetan (?) temple. I cannot vouch for its authenticity.
TODAY'S BIG CAT ROUND UP
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.
CFZ "PEOPLE": Nyx
Our thoughts and love are with Judy this day.
THERE is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find - it's your own affair, -
But ... you've given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!),
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone - wherever it goes - for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear!
We've sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent,
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve;
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long -
So why in - Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
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.
- Artificial Lighting and Noise Alter Biorhythms of ...
- City birds 'cope better in cold' than those in woo...
- Unconfirmed reports of sightings of a Golden eagle...
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS MANIPULATIVE
The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
Steve Hackett: The song’s the thing
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/steve-hackett-songs-thing.html
And that's enough poetry for now
but we'll be back next week (and how!)
* 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
My stepdaughter is here this weekend
for her first trip here with her new boyfriend
so I'm running late (excuse the trivia,
but I never put work before Olivia)
for her first trip here with her new boyfriend
so I'm running late (excuse the trivia,
but I never put work before Olivia)
And I have something else to say,
before we get on with the blogs today
all of today's writing and pix
are dedicated to the memory of Nyx
before we get on with the blogs today
all of today's writing and pix
are dedicated to the memory of Nyx
But that's enough of girls and dogs
it's time to get on with the blogs:
it's time to get on with the blogs:
Steve Hackett: The song’s the thing
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/steve-hackett-songs-thing.html
The Rides featuring Stephen Stills
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-rides-featuring-stephen-stills_29.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-rides-featuring-stephen-stills_29.html
Gonzo Weekly Magazine #45
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/gonzo-weekly-magazine-45.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/gonzo-weekly-magazine-45.html
Judy Dyble at Critical Jazz
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/judy-at-critical-jazz.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/judy-at-critical-jazz.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jack Bruce - Theme From An Imaginary
Western
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-jack-bruce-theme.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-gonzo-track-of-day-jack-bruce-theme.html
And that's enough poetry for now
but we'll be back next week (and how!)
* 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 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. 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. 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
On this
day in 1942 the actor Ian McShane was born. McShane is best known for his roles
in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Deadwood and American Horror Story: Asylum.
And now
the news:
McShane
in American Horror Story: