Thursday, August 14, 2014

RAINES EXPLAINS: Weird Weekend preparations


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WW2014: News and updates

The fifteenth Weird Weekend starts this evening at 7:00,and people from all over the known universe are already converging upon North Devon. We do have one piece of sad news: Lee Walker's father has died and so he has had to cancel his appearance. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. His place will be taken by Shoshannah McCarthy talking about various Fortean Zoological phenomena from a Veterinary Perspective.
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TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS

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.
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  • NEWSLINK: Big cat numbers rise in Uttar Pradesh


  • US SIGHTINGS: Mystery Of Black Cat Grows In Cowet...
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    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.
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    BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF



    KMBZ

    A veteran Bigfoot hunter says the creatures could be in the metro
    LIBERTY, Mo. - A veteran bigfoot researcher is convinced the elusive creatures are here in the metro area. Carter Buschardt of Liberty has researched ...

    Bigfoot or Bad Acting In Ashigan Lake, MN?
    Bigfoot Evidence ⋅ Shawn
    Bigfoot exists--it is a fact that you just cannot handle--some folk can and some can`t ... Bigfoot is real enough for the Smithsonian to have displayed the ...

    Latin Post
    Bigfoot Sighting Video Footage and Finding Bigfoot: YouTube Video of Sasquatch in Tahoe City ...
    This is frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film taken on October 20th, 1967, claiming to depict Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Colton. (Photo : Wikipedia ...

    Listen to Woman Talk About Bigfoot Attacking her Home in Snohomish County, Washington
    “Growing up in Snohomish Washington, with Sasquatch on her property, Dina tell the story how one night a Sasquatch attacked their home and 
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    THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PREPARES FOR A VERY WEIRD WEEKEND

    The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
    And so it begins!
    The fifteenth Weird Weekend starts this evening at 7:00,and people from all over the known universe are already converging upon North Devon. We do have one piece of sad news: Lee Walker's father has died and so he has had to cancel his appearance. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. His place will be taken by Shoshannah McCarthy talking about various Fortean Zoological phenomena from a Veterinary Perspective.
    The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#90) is available to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has the legendary Steve Bolton on the cover and an interview with him inside, in which he casually drops more names than I have ever heard in an interview before, including Keith Richards and Dr John, as well as his first band Atomic Rooster and the currently reformed 6foot3. We also have Tony Palmer remembering his friend Felix Dennis and a feature about the reissued edition of Palmer's 'The Trials of Oz'. Gentle Giant fans will find a critique of the new box set of 'The Power and the Glory', critiqued by Doug Harr. There are also new shows from the wonderfully eccentric Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, and from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny (hopefully fully recovered from his recent illness) a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and long nosed potoroos (OK, no weird little marsupials, 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:
    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!
    To make sure that you don't miss your copy of future issues make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe
    http://eepurl.com/r-VTD
    As well as the Gonzo Weekly, there is a daily service called - wait for it - The Gonzo Daily, and you can subscribe for free HERE:
    http://eepurl.com/OvPez
    *  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 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?
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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - THURSDAY

    ON THIS DAY IN 1962 - Brian Epstein and the Beatles decided to fire drummer Pete Best. Best was dismissed 2 days later. Ringo Starr, then with Rory Storm & the Hurricanes, was asked to join the band. 
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  • Vale ‘Gump’, the last known Christmas Island Fores...
  • Young Loggerhead Turtles Don’t Go With The Flow
  • Fish flourish on anxiety drug

  • Dolphin With Two Heads Washes Up on Turkish Beach

    • AND TO WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK...
    (Music that may have some relevance to items also on this page, or may just reflect my mood on the day)
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