Sunday, August 24, 2014

KARL SHUKER: Dung-Heaps, Devil-Pigs, and Monckton's Gazeka


Karl Shuker seeks one of New Guinea's more plausible cryptids - the Papuan devil-pig.

Read on...
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GONZO WEEKLY #92

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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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THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN DOES.....................

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
 
You may have noticed I'm running late today,
Why? hang on, I'm trying to say
and all these interruptions are really a pain
for a rapidly ageing poet who is trying to explain
 
Basically on sundays I have the day off
and then I go to sleep and occasionally cough
but I went to bed last night at a few minutes to three
then slept for twelve hours, and it seemed to me
 
that if I had my breakfast and read a book
and got my head together in some comfortable nook,
then for once when I did my blogging I wouldn't be tired
and that's just about the way it all transpired
 
Remember every sunday I do the blogs in rhyme,
even though they're usually done and dusted by this time,
I don't do them like this because somehow I find it prudent
I purely do it for my own amusement
 
So now I have finished, I'll got back to my dogs,
and my book whilst I hope that you enjoy the blogs
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#92) is available to read or download at www.gonzoweekly.com. It has the Weird Weekend featuring various Gonzo luminaries such as Wally Dean, Judge Smith, Crystal Grenade and C J Stone. We have Merrell Fankhauser's autobiography. Doug Harr was there when Paul McCartney revisited the site of the last ever Beatles concert. There are also new shows from the wonderfully eccentric Jaki and Tim on their Submarine, 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!!!
 
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
 
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 - SUNDAY

ON THIS DAY IN 0079 - Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash. 

  • Gibraltar banishes troublesome monkeys
  • 2 new animals found
  • Survey of remote Kimberley islands finds rare and ...
  • Blue Shark trapped in estuary with rusty hook in i...
  • Urban areas are hives for wild bees
  • Primates being sold legally in 21 English pet shop...
  • New tagging scheme in Mozambique to study endanger...
  • Porlock Bay rare species found in marine study

  • Researchers discover what causes honeybees to prep

    • 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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