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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
DALE DRINNON: The Panda bat
Just one post today. Dale is still having serious problems with Blogger.
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.
- Some Birds Become 'Maiden Aunts' to Defend Relativ...
- Kiwi dog attack sparks warning
- Headless Birds Found in San Francisco Believed to ...
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 which 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.
T'WAS THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND ALL OVER THE THE HOUSE, THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN WAS CHASING A MOUSE
The Gonzo Daily - Christmas Eve
Last night was, I suppose, the equivalent of the
annual office party. Mother had two glasses of sherry, Corinna went to bed
early, and Dave B-P, Graham and I drank various things, listened to various
things, and generally had a boozy good time. This winter has so far been
very windy and very wet but has been extraordinarily mid temperature-wise. I
always worry about such mild winters because so many organisms need the trigger
of freezing to grow properly. Then again, I said exactly the same thing last
year, and after Christmas we had a vile cold snap that lasted into April. But
the following summer was the best one for butterflies in many years. And whilst
on the subject of butterflies, as you will know if you read my meanderings, this has been the best year for long-tailed blues since the 1940s but a few
weeks ago there was another aberrant record - one of the first British records
of a yellow-legged tortoiseshell. I wonder what next year has in store for us
lepidopterists.
Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_24.html
You will probably have noticed that this week I am just posting some of my
favourite songs even though they are off topic, and today's Track of the Day is
by Elephant's Memory
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-holiday-track-of-day.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gonzo-holiday-track-of-day.html
Joey Molland review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/joey-molland-interview.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/joey-molland-interview.html
Sky Architect review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/sky-architect-review_23.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/12/sky-architect-review_23.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
* 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?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
Yesterday’s News
Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 1980 unusual lights were spotted for the first time near to the RAF Woodbridge airbase in Rendlesham Forest in the UK. Debate still goes on as to what the lights were, if indeed there were lights at all, with theories including U.S. Government mind-control experiments, alien spacecraft, people with torches and misidentified lighthouse beams or a combination of one or more of those explanations.
And now the news:
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There should be more Christmas songs with paranormal themes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZg7tvGN9o
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 1980 unusual lights were spotted for the first time near to the RAF Woodbridge airbase in Rendlesham Forest in the UK. Debate still goes on as to what the lights were, if indeed there were lights at all, with theories including U.S. Government mind-control experiments, alien spacecraft, people with torches and misidentified lighthouse beams or a combination of one or more of those explanations.
And now the news:
There should be more Christmas songs with paranormal themes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZg7tvGN9o