Tuesday, August 26, 2014
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.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN GETS IT TOGETHER TO A CERTAIN EXTENT
The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
And so we are back to normal. Yesterday, three
delightful young people calling themselves 'Hi Tides' came into the studio to
record a Christine Aguilera song basically to see what they sounded like.
Personally, considering that we only spent a few hours on it, I thought the
three young people (aged 7, 11 and 14) were really rather good. Check it
out:
https://soundcloud.com/hi-tides/say-something
https://soundcloud.com/hi-tides/say-something
Adam Davies, legendary explorer and all round good
egg arrives this afternoon for a few days. Its all go here at the
CFZ...
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography: Yes, King Crimson
etc
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/bill-bruford-autobiography-yes-king.html
MUSIC: After 42 years, Yes drummer knows the music
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/music-after-42-years-yes-drummer-knows.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_25.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/gonzo-track-of-day-mike-oldfield.html
FOLK MEETS JAZZ…Iain Matthews & Searing Quartet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/folk-meets-jazziain-matthews-searing.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/bill-bruford-autobiography-yes-king.html
MUSIC: After 42 years, Yes drummer knows the music
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/music-after-42-years-yes-drummer-knows.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_25.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/gonzo-track-of-day-mike-oldfield.html
FOLK MEETS JAZZ…Iain Matthews & Searing Quartet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/folk-meets-jazziain-matthews-searing.html
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!!!
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo
Weekly:
Issue 91 (Galahad cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/gonzo-weekly-91.html
Issue 90 (Steve Bolton cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/gonzo-weekly-90.html
Issue 89 (Judy Dyble cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/gonzo-weekly-89.html
Issue 88 (Joey Molland cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/gonzo-weekly-88.html
Issue 87 (Daevid Allen cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/gonzo-weekly-87.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/gonzo-weekly-91.html
Issue 90 (Steve Bolton cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/gonzo-weekly-90.html
Issue 89 (Judy Dyble cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/08/gonzo-weekly-89.html
Issue 88 (Joey Molland cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/gonzo-weekly-88.html
Issue 87 (Daevid Allen cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/07/gonzo-weekly-87.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!
You can download the magazine in pdf form
HERE:
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/
To make sure that you don't miss your copy of
future issues make an old hippy a happy chappy and subscribe
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As well as the Gonzo Weekly, there is a daily
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HERE:
http://eepurl.com/OvPez
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
* 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?
* 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?
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
- Older Books, New Titles — Including True Stories of Real Life Monsters...
- GNOME IN PENNSYLVANIA?
- DOES YOUR DOG MISBEHAVE?
- MOTHMAN FESTIVAL
- MOTHMAN MUSEUM TO MOVE
- GRUMPY BIGFOOTS
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- GIANT RATS AID HUMANITY
- CROSSBRED WOLVES AND COYOTES
- ROUGAROU HUNT
- ANOTHER STRANGE DUNPHY EXPERIENCE
- THE TREE THAT WALKS
- DAVIS REPORT ON PATTERSON FILM
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- PLURALITY OF UNIVERSES
- ARIZONA LEGENDS
- LONG ISLAND UFO SIGHTINGS
- UNDERWATER PANTHER
- CHUPACABRAS IN CHILE
- SICILIAN MONSTER STORY (see image above, courtesy Lon Strickler)
- AN ASSESSMENT BY JASON COLAVITO
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- ANIMAL SPEECH
- KUMBWAY
- NEW LOCH NESS MONSTER VIDEO
- UFOs OVER SERBIA AND CALIFORNIA
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
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.
US SIGHTINGS: THAT’S A BIG OL’ CAT!
UK SIGHTINGS: Big cats spotted in the Cotswolds
NEWSLINK: Massive Kenyan Leopard
NEWSLINK: Mom, 3 kids face down big cat near aarey...
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.
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
BIGFOOT
Q AND A 22 AUGUST 2014 with Mitch Waite
The
theories, and and information in this video is the opinion of Mitch Waite, a
professional Bigfoot researcher and Cryptozoologist. They are as
he ...
The
Patterson Bigfoot Film. The First Walk Sequence Ends Here.
The Davis Report ⋅
primateer
The
Patterson Bigfoot film was shot in several different time periods. This
clip shows the first walk sequence and how it ends. Watch "Patty" go down
at ...
The
Provo Canyon Bigfoot Encounter, is it Real?
Beard
Card: We went camping in Provo Canyon (near Squaw Peak and Little Rock Canyon
Overlook) and saw some deer up on a hill that we wanted
The
Bluff Creek Bigfoot
Shown
here is frame 352 of the Patterson-Gimlin film. It is the most famous frame of
the short film, appearing to show a clear view of a female
bigfoot ...
Bigfoot
Stands Up And Runs into the Forest
People
in the area said that they have seen a Bigfoot like creature in the past
and that it could be possible I caught a Bigfoot on camera. Check it out
Massachusetts
Bigfoot Eyewitness Interview
This
is a great interview of an eyewitness who had a Class A Bigfoot sighting
that took place in Lakeville, Massachusetts. The witness has had
We
found this photo posted on a hunting forum, and we just don't know what to make
of it. In the image it almost appears to show a shoulder and arm,
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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)
Britain was invaded by Roman forces under Julius Caesar.
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)