TASMANIA EXPEDITION RETURNS

I heard from Richard this morning. The team are back in the UK, and he will be coming here tomorrow or Tuesday with photographs, film and samples from the expedition. More news when I get it.

KILLER CATFISH HUNT PIGEONS ON LAND

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS...

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

It is sunday, one of the only times
I amuse myself by writing rhymes
and reading them back to my two dogs
as I sit and do the Gonzo blogs

We start off with Thom Woodruffe who
writes pooetry better than you know who
his nom de plume? Why, don't you know it?
he calls himself the name Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_17.html

And now the Gonzo Track of the Day
is something soulfulo I have to say
what is it? Have you heard the news?
it's John Mayall playing the blues
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-gonzo-track-of-day-john-mayall-i.html

And on the subject of the blues
here's another piece of news
a kickstarter campaign you see
for an Eric Burdon documentary
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/eric-burdon-mike-figgis-star-in-jazz.html

And now we have a groovy scene
the Gonzo Weekly magazine
has passed a milestone my dear
we've been going now for a full year
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/gonzo-weekly-magazine-52.html

And now a bloody great box set
from King Crimson, maybe their biggest yet
according to the thing's I've read
it celebrates their album 'Red'
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/king-crimson-rocking-road-to-red.html

And last but not least is Judy D
a great review of her new CD
now I'm going off to drink a highball
'cos I can't think of ow't that rhymes with Dyble
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/11/judy-dyble-at-rocktologist.html

And that's enough of my stupid rhymes,
we'll be back next week same place same time

*  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?

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. 

The worldwide mystery cat phenomenon (or group of phenomena, if we are to be more accurate) is not JUST about cryptozoology. At its most basic level it is about the relationship between our species and various species of larger cat. That is why sometimes you will read stories here that appear to have nothing to do with cryptozoology, but have everything to do with human/big cat interaction. As committed Forteans, we believe that until we understand the nature of these interactions, we have no hope of understanding the truth that we are seeking. 

VIDEO: Revealing The Leopard

VIDEO: Siberian Tiger in Russia

VIDEO: Tigers

VIDEO: Wild Cats

VIDEO: Attack of the Big Cats

VIDEO: Sabertooth anatomy: the lumbar spine

Video: Borneo Bay Cat

SIGHTINGS USA: Mystery Animal Seen Lurking In Bloo...

NEWSLINK: Big Cats Do Live in the British Country...

NEWSLINK: Nature photographer captures big cats in...

NEWSLINK: Spotted cat back in the wild

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.

• In Britain, Game of Cat and Mouse Breaks Out Over ...
• Rare Malabar trogon sighted in Kotagiri jungle
• Incredible 'gannet cam' video captures birds' eye ...

DALE DRINNON: Zana, Frontiers of Anthropology, Cedar and Willow, Benny's Blogs

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2013/11/zana-and-old-african-element.html

 

New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/11/longears-from-ceylon-to-easter-island.html

http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/11/diffusion-of-fairy-tales.html

 

New at Cedar and Willow:

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/11/bettie-page-reveals-all.html

http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/11/snakes-america-anti-zombie-assault-team.html

 

New at Benny's Other Blog, the Ominous Octopus Omnibus:

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/11/mikes-battles-bob-powell-1953.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/11/frank-frazettas-thunda-when-earth-shook.html

http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2013/11/thats-spirit.html

 

Best Wishes, Dale D.

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

Yesterday’s News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 1970 the USSR landed Lunokhod 1 on the surface of the moon. Lunokhod 1 was the first unmanned, remotely-controlled robot to land on another world, something that has been used in space exploration ever since in preference to the risk and expense of sending people to other worlds.

And now the news:

Winnipeg man raises rescued tiny turtles in his ba...

USA offers reward for help smashing wildlife crime...

Understanding Ourselves by Studying Animal Kingdom...

Sanctuary: Gate worked properly in cougar attack

'Deadly' Spiders Found In Supermarket Bananas

Three not so little pig ‘fugitives’ caught after s...

294 endangered sea turtles buried in Palawan - via...

Kiss the Pig Contests, Cheap Laughs and Bullying (...

Hundreds of sea turtles found dead along Central A...

RSPB in deer management plan call

The Secrets of a Bug's Flight

Dogs Likely Originated in Europe More Than 18,000 ...

Live big cats and hippo teeth among UK border seiz...

Monster-Sized Unidentifiable Creature Dug Up in Vi...

Falling demand for ivory in Cambodia and Singapore...

This is what space exploration was like back when people still had the balls to send people rather than endless robots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIeuY9cMauM