CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 07/15/14

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Watch a Classic Breakdown Southern Washington Bigfoot

In this classic breakdown, Phil takes a look at the Southern Washington Bigfoot video. He sounds a bit under the weather, but this bigfoot seems not to ...

Bigfoot Scream in Washington?

Cryptozoology News

NACHES, Wash. -- A group of people in Washington are asking for help trying to identify the scream they captured on video last week. YouTube user ...

Rock Throwing and Eyeshine Caught on Bigfoot Video

Bigfoot Evidence - Blogger

Bigfooter Robert Dodsen always has interesting videos. In this outing video he sets up a perimeter line that something breaks, rocks are thrown at him, ...

Bigfoot and Yeti, as Elusive as Ever

New York Times

Legends of mysterious part-human creatures have circulated for centuries, and those stories persist today in cultures around the world, from Yeti in the ...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN IS TIRED

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday

www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

Today has already been a particularly complicated one. I interviewed Harry Williamson in Australia about the Drone Orchestra and the healing music they made for Daevid Allen. Anybody who knows me will be surprised to know that I got it together enough to do an interview at midday, but is just the beginning. At 2.00 I had a conference call with Steve Ignorant about the cover for his new record, and completely forgot to tell him that Tracy at the Small School, who is my liaison for the Weird Weekend, was a massive fan of Crass back in the day and was incredibly impressed when she telephoned last night and I told her that the conversation with Igs was imminent. It is the first time I have impressed a hippy chick in years. Then at 3.00 I did my best to interview Oliver Kersbergen from Sleepyard about his recent collaboration with Judy Dyble. At the allotted time I telephoned him in Norway, but for some reason the recordmycall.co.uk website wouldn’t work, and so we arranged to do it via email.

As an aside, if anybody knows another online utility which will record telephone calls I would be massively impressed if they could recommend it to me.

Finally, Saskia and & finished doing the indexing on Karl Shuker’s new book. I hate indexing, it is one of the worst jobs I have to do, but it has to be done. And now, as I am finishing the day’s blogs which really should have been done an hour ago, my secretary, the lovely Andrea, has turned up to do a whole slew of dictating (she is dictating this for me). In an hour and a half Corinna, Mother and I are of to Cornwall to see young Charlotte’s drama group performance. I think you would agree that this has been a very energetic, though productive, day.

GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Eric Burdon & War - Paint it black
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/gonzo-track-of-day-eric-burdon-war.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_15.html
DRONE FOR DAEVID
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/drone-for-daevid_14.html
Judge Smith interview
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/judge-smith-interview.html
JON ANDERSON INTERVIEW
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/jon-anderson-interview.html
PARSNIPS FOR ANDY
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/parsnips-for-andy.html

The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#86) is available to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has Hunter Thompson on the front cover an an article by theatrical producer Lou Stein about his friendship with the good doctor. There is also an interview with Paul Woodwright from Kozfest, Galahad at the Christchurch Festival in pictures, Doug Harr with thefirst of a mini series on Brand X, whilst Jon muses about Alan Moore (who knows the score). There are also new shows from the wonderfully eccentric Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, from Canterbury Sans Frontières and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and salamanders from Toulouse (OK, no French caudata, but I got carried away with things that rhymed with OOOOS) than you can shake a stick at. And the best part is IT's ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 85 (Clearlight/Chief Raoni cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/gonzo-weekly-85.html
Issue 84 (Mick Abrahams cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/06/gonzo-weekly-84.html
Issue 83 (Stonehenge cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/06/gonzo-weekly-83.html
Issue 82 (Pam Windo cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/06/gonzo-weekly-82.html

All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer. If you have problems downloading, just email me and I will add you to the Gonzo Weekly dropbox. The first 69 issues are archived there as well. Information is power chaps, we have to share it!

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* 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

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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 54 who - together with an orange kitten named after a song by Frank Zappa 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 kitten?

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

What has Corinna's column of fortean bird news got to do with Cryptozoology?

Well, everything actually!

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.

DALE DRINNON: Updates

New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2014/07/some-more-plesiosaur-lake-monster-info.html http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-plesiosaur-body-shape-and-its.html http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2014/07/roman-and-byzantine-age-sea-monsters.html New at the Frontiers of Anthropology: http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2014/07/bigfoot-shootings-chronology.html http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-mound-giants.html

WEIRD WEEKEND 2014: A Query from Dan Holdsworth

Jon,

As you know, during Weird Weekends I normally stay in a B & B
to the north-west of Woolsery; Hescott Farm. Just before the main road
there is a monumental gateway on the left, with a curious inscription
on it:

http://goo.gl/maps/efro2

Omega, thou art last I'm sure
As Alpha is in the east
And thou'lt be last for ever more
Til endless ages cease.
When I am dead and gone
these verses will remain
To show who wrote thereof
By working of the brain

James Berriman
New Inn
Clovelly Jan 10th 1902

Now, I'm willing to bet that almost nobody, not even locals such as
yourself, will have spotted this plaque. The writing is too small to
read from a car; only someone on a bike such as myself would be able to
stop and satisfy their curiosity (incidentally, a bike is the ideal
vehicle for a quiet nosey-parker round any area if you're so inclined).

So, it might make quite a nice quiz question and in any case lends itself to giving the Weird Weekend an air of, well, weirdness.

It certainly puzzles me, anyway, and there are few other mysteries on
that section of road, with the exception of the strange bright shiny
thing...

--
Dan H.