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.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES
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.
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.
DALE DRINNON: Frontiers of Anthropology, Cedar & Willow
There is no Frontiers of Zoology link for
today and Benny has not released any links today either. Instead there are two
releases from the Frontiers of Zoology and two from Cedar and Willow, both parts
of ongoing series in either place. One of the Cedar and Willow pieces is a
Streampunk link and the other has reference to Shamanic Animal Powers (As used
by one of the ongoing characters)
New at the Frontiers of Anthropology:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/12/atlantean-tracks-1.html
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/12/atlantean-tracks-2.html
New at Cedar and Willow:
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/12/steampunk.html
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/12/owl-eyed-perona.html
Best Wishes, Dale D.
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/12/atlantean-tracks-1.html
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2013/12/atlantean-tracks-2.html
New at Cedar and Willow:
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/12/steampunk.html
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/12/owl-eyed-perona.html
Best Wishes, Dale D.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN UNDERSTANDS
The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
And so another old friend has gone. Lloyd Pye has
died of cancer at the young age of 66. I was very fond of Lloyd and we were
mates for just over 14 years. I first met him in mesquite, Nevada at a UFO
conference in August 1999. He and I were amongst the only sane people there.
After three or four days of being told how The Queen was a blood drinking
lizard, how JFK had been assassinated by aliens and how the New World Order were
communicating with us through the miracle of fridge magnets I had really had
enough. Then up came this quietly spoken 'Southern Gentleman' in his early
fifties who had in his possession a 900 year old skull that he believed was
partly alien. I didn't agree with him, and still don't. But he was so humble,
self effacing and respectful that I couldn't help like him. A few days later I
heard him tell an uproariously funny story about a turkey that he had known in
his youth on a Louisiana farmstead; the audience (including me) were in
stitches, but he retained his quiet, gentlemanly demeanour all the way through.
He gave me a copy of his book 'Everything you know is wrong'. It was beautifully
written, and his thesis meticulously argued, and although I didn't believe a
word of it, I was touched by his sincerity. Over the years we have met up many
times both in the USA and in Britain, and, yes, I became close enough to him to
count him as a friend. I have always looked forward to our next encounter.
I am not crying for him. Either there is a life
after death, or there is nothing (and I am not going to hazard a guess which).
Either way Lloyd will be OK. But I am crying for me, and for all the other
people whose lives have been touched by this dear, sweet gentle man, and who
will no longer have the joy of his quiet philosophical company.
For those of you who have not heard of him I
recommend his website http://www.lloydpye.com/ so you can make up
your own mind about his life's work and the enigmatic 'Starchild'
skull.
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html
Today's Track of the Day is by Gordon Giltrap
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-gordon-giltrap.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-track-of-day-gordon-giltrap.html
French Mick Farren/Andy Colquhoun review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/french-mick-farrenandy-colquhoun-review.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/french-mick-farrenandy-colquhoun-review.html
Belgian Sky Architect Review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/belgian-sky-architect-review.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/belgian-sky-architect-review.html
Joey Molland's first concert
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/joey-mollands-first-concert.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/joey-mollands-first-concert.html
Trevor Horn interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/trevor-horns-latest-invention.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/trevor-horns-latest-invention.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: www.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?
THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Lloyd Pye (1946-2013)
I didn't always agree with him, but I had immense respect for him, and I will miss him a lot.
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 1967 Otis Redding died in a plane crash. Redding became the first artist to get a posthumous number one album in the USA when '(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay' was released a few weeks later.
And now the news:
Invasive cockroach found in NYC can take the cold
Surprising Diversity in Aging Revealed in Nature
EXPOSED – USDA’s Secret War on Wildlife
Discovery of Partial Skeleton Suggests Ruggedly Bu...
Norfolk seals 'fared better than feared' in storm ...
Fruit-mad South American monkeys eat 50 varieties ...
Rare woodlouse at risk from St Helena's quest to g...
Five porpoises sighted on River Thames
One of the best songs ever
written:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmUhYSr-e4
On this day in 1967 Otis Redding died in a plane crash. Redding became the first artist to get a posthumous number one album in the USA when '(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay' was released a few weeks later.
And now the news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmUhYSr-e4
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