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)
Saturday, January 31, 2015
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Sunday
ON THIS DAY IN 1893 - Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio in West Orange, NJ.
Ancient Human Fossil Could Be New Primitive Specie...
Blue mussels not yet the bellwether of NE coastal ...
55,000-year-old human skull found in Israel sheds ...
Invasive species in the Great Lakes by 2063
New research could help the critically endangered ...
Baleen whales hear through their bones
Frogs Prove Ideal Models for Studying Developmenta...
Urban sprawl promotes worm exchange across species...
Record sea lion pup strandings reported in Souther...
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)
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)
Friday, January 30, 2015
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!
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.
HO FOR THE G-B-D-D-M
The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Billy Cobham - Stratus
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/gonzo-track-of-day-billy-cobham-stratus.html
PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #105
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/playlist-strange-fruit-105.html
Strange Boat: UK book review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/strange-boat-uk-book-review.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html
Tribal Hybrid Concept: Polish review translated
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/tribal-hybrid-concept-polish-review.html
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 114 (Barbara Dickson cover)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo114.html
Issue 113 (Rick Wakeman cover)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo113.html
Issue 112 (Rocket Scientists cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-112.html
Issue 111 (Mice on Stilts cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-111.html
Issue 109/10 (Yusuf/Stevie Wonder cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/12/gonzo-weekly-10910.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!
* 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...
I was 12 in 1971, and never saw A Clockwork Orange
during the brief time that it was in the cinema. Even if it ever got as far as
The Odeon in Bideford (long since closed and turned into a block of sheltered
flats for old people) my parents would not have let me go, and my cultural
interests at the time were more involved with reading Biggles books by Capt W E
Johns, or the William books of Richmal Crompton (both of which I still read
today, by the way) than investigating the ultraviolence that Alex and his Droogs
perpetuated upon society.
I finally saw it one night fifteen years ago, when
together with several friends and my then girlfriend I went to the cinema in
Exeter for a special late night showing. The most disturbing bit of the film for
me took place about two thirds of the way through the film. Over to
Wikipedia:
“Two years into the sentence, the Minister of the
Interior arrives at the prison looking for test subjects for the Ludovico
technique, an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals within
two weeks; Alex readily volunteers. The process involves drugging the subject,
strapping him to a chair, propping his eyelids open, and forcing him to watch
images of violence. Alex becomes nauseated due to the drugs.”
Today I became Alex. No. I did not disappear with
some malchicks into Burgess’s terrifying Nadsat world. But I did sit in a chair
whilst chemicals were put in my eyes, and I became mildly dizzy and queasy.
It was my annual diabetic eye screening, and when I
came home after hanging around Bideford for three hours waiting for some
medication, I was so tired and queasy I went to bed.
So an appypolly loggy lewdies and droogs. After
having drencom in m’glazz, and a pain in m’gulliver I was forced to leave the
blogs to this evening.
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Billy Cobham - Stratus
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/gonzo-track-of-day-billy-cobham-stratus.html
PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #105
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/playlist-strange-fruit-105.html
Strange Boat: UK book review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/strange-boat-uk-book-review.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html
Tribal Hybrid Concept: Polish review translated
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/tribal-hybrid-concept-polish-review.html
The Gonzo Weekly #115
www.gonzoweekly.com
www.gonzoweekly.com
Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream, John Lydon, Grateful Dead, Jon Anderson,
Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#115) will soon be available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/.
It has Edgar Froese from Tangerine Dream on the front cover. As you may know he
died about ten days ago. Inside there is a retrospective by Doug Harr and Rob
Ayling remembers his relationship with the man who defined electronic music. I
critique the extraordinary new John Lydon autobiography, and also burble on
about The Grateful Dead. We have news about the Drones for Daevid concert in
Brighton next week, and we send the legendary Roy Weard to a desert island. Xtul
are on the road to Norwich, and there are shows from the multi-talented Neil
Nixon at Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the
titular submarine dwellers are still lost at sea. There is also a collection of
more news, reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers wearing new shoes
(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials in search of snazzy footwear, 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 114 (Barbara Dickson cover)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo114.html
Issue 113 (Rick Wakeman cover)
http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo113.html
Issue 112 (Rocket Scientists cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-112.html
Issue 111 (Mice on Stilts cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-111.html
Issue 109/10 (Yusuf/Stevie Wonder cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/12/gonzo-weekly-10910.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/
* 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat 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 infantile orange cat?
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...
From CFZ-USA:
From CFZ-USA:
- ELEPHANT LOYALTY (see picture above)
- THE MOVING SKULL
- JOHNNY DEPP CLAIMS CHUPACABRA ATTACK
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- NORTHERN WHITE RHINO BECOMING EXTINCT
- FOLLOWING THE MOGOLLON MONSTER
- WAS BIGFOOT SIGHTED IN BROOKLYN?
- IS BIGFOOT NEAR SAVANNAH?
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- JOHN GREEN'S SASQUATCH DATABASE
- WHAT LURKS UNDER WATER?
- BEAST OF ORMISTON
- HUMAN-BIGFOOT INTERACTION
- ARE THEY HUNTING DOGS IN TEXAS?
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- DOES BIGFOOT HAVE PRETERNATURAL POWERS?
- MOTHMAN SIGHTING IN CALIFORNIA
- BIGFOOT SIGHTING FROM 1977
- PROCTOR VALLEY MONSTER
- CHICXULUB FINDING
- THE STONE MAN
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Friday/Saturday
ON THIS DAY IN 1649 - England's King Charles I was beheaded.
Postal strike ends boxed lizards’ lives - Herp Dig...
Florida 'zombie cat' crawls out of grave
Chimps with higher-ranking moms do better in fight...
Museum's 'Dippy' dinosaur makes way for blue whale...
England's beavers allowed to stay in the wild
More than 2300 turtles seized at Jakarta internati...
Too wet for frogs: changes in a tropical leaf litt...
Hadrosaurs would have run cross country in dino hi...
Why Wasps Massacre Each Other ... Over Figs
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)
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)
Thursday, January 29, 2015
FIRST CAMERA TRAP FILM OF AFRICAN GOLDEN CAT (Thanks to Richard Muirhead)
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...ootage-african-golden-cat-sheds-light-species
''Close-up of a mother African golden cat with her kitten. Photograph: David Mills/WCS/Panthera.''
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS...
The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html
www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html
I am feeling a bit more human today. Thank you to
everyone for your messages of support, and especially to Rob for his phone call
last night. I really appreciate it my friend.
Rick Wakeman - Story of Morning has Broken
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/rick-wakeman-story-of-morning-has-broken.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html
Steve Hackett, York Barbican, October 14
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/steve-hackett-york-barbican-october-14.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Patto live French TV
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/gonzo-track-of-day-patto-live-french-tv.html
Hugh Hopper: US review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/hugh-hopper-us-review.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/rick-wakeman-story-of-morning-has-broken.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_29.html
Steve Hackett, York Barbican, October 14
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/steve-hackett-york-barbican-october-14.html
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Patto live French TV
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/gonzo-track-of-day-patto-live-french-tv.html
Hugh Hopper: US review
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/hugh-hopper-us-review.html
The Gonzo Weekly #114
www.gonzoweekly.com
www.gonzoweekly.com
Barbara Dickson, Pink Fairies, Genesis, Steve
Hackett, Robert Wyatt, Stargrace, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen
fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#114) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Barbara Dickson on the front cover and inside there is an interview by me in
which she talks about her new album and her work with Troy Donockley, Doug goes
back to 1976 and the Genesis 'Seconds Out' Tour, I critique the extraordinary
new Robert Wyatt biography, and also burble on about Bob Dylan, we send the
lovely Stargrace to a desert island, tell you about new Pink Fairies recordings,
marvel at the intrepidness of Steve Hackett, and Xtul are on the road to
Norwich, and there are shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit
and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine
dwellers are still lost at sea. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers wearing new shoes (OK, nothing
to do with small marsupials in search of snazzy footwear, 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 113 (Rocket Scientists cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-112.html
Issue 111 (Mice on Stilts cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-111.html
Issue 109/10 (Yusuf/Stevie Wonder cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/12/gonzo-weekly-10910.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-112.html
Issue 111 (Mice on Stilts cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-111.html
Issue 109/10 (Yusuf/Stevie Wonder cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/12/gonzo-weekly-10910.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/
* 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat 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 infantile orange cat?
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF:
Lincoln
Journal Star
|
'Simply
a mystery' -- Strange tracks in snow appear near Curtis
She
also heard from a Nebraska-based bigfoot investigator, who asked her to
look for trees pulled down into arches or tipi-type shapes -- telltale
signs ...
New Bigfoot Sighting From Lettuce Lake Park Florida
New
video footage of footage of Bigfoot From Lettuce Lake Park
Florida.
Ohio
Bigfoot Hunters to Conduct Workshop on Evidence Collection
Drones
do have legitimate uses and could prove helpful to reporters
Creature
Weekend is proud to announce that the Ohio Bigfoot Hunters will be
conducting an Evidence Collection Workshop at the Creature
Weekend ...
The
Paranormal Review: I could not find the original footage for this bigfoot
sighting or sasquatch sighting, if you have the link please leave me a
Bigfoot
In The Snow?
Damn.
This one is quit blurry. The Paranormal Review just did a fresh breakdown of a
video they found while scouring the net. This one is ...
Thomas
Steenburg Talks About The Late Bigfoot Researcher Rene Dahinden
These
interviews with Thomas Steenburg are great. In this one he speaks on the late
Rene Dahinden, and his friendships with the legends of the ...
Bigfoot
Of Stevens County Reports
Grassman58Sharing
some of the stories and reports of bigfoot sightings we have been
researching at the locations around Stevens County
|
Bigfoot's
backyard? 'Sasquatch' sighted in Prospect Park
A
Fort Greene videographer claims to have shot footage showing the legendary
Sasquatch lumbering around a wooded area of Brooklyn's backyard ...
Bigfoot
Footage from Lettuce Lake Park, FL
Check
out video footage recently sent in to Bigfoot Evidence. The witness said
he was canoeing in a swamp outside of Tampa, Florida, when he
This
Video Tells Where Bigfoot Is From, and It's Not Earth
With
as many questions as there are about bigfoot, some people even speculate
if they are from Earth at all. Some believe the squatches come
from ...
Bigfoot
- Todd Standing
This
is a short comparison made by Phil Poling of a photo reported of a Sasquatch. It
was presented by Todd Standing. Are they one in the same
Oregon
Bigfoot Sightings 2015
Oregon
Bigfoot sightings, recent bigfoot sightings There are currently
1406 published reports in the database. We are currently working on a
backlog ...
Bigfoot
in Brooklyn, Skunk Ape in Florida, Yeti in Boston
Three
videos appear this week of a Bigfoot in Brooklyn, a Skunk Ape in Florida
and a Yeti in Boston.
Bigfoot
Track Find In Nebraska During The 1980's
Nebraska
isn't exactly known for its thriving bigfoot population. According to the
BFRO website, there has only been 14 reports filed for the state.
Bigfoot
sighting in East Texas near Lufkin
Bigfoot
Sightings: For several weeks I have heard strange noises in the woods. I've
caught glimpses of a shadowy figure in the woods on my property
More
Details on The Falcon Project
There's
been a couple of people who've publicly announced their involvement with the
Falcon Project, but details have been scared. Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Snowy
sasquatch spotted in Newcomerstown
This
six-foot solid concrete statue of Bigfoot draws more than just a lot of
looks from passers-by along Main Street in Newcomerstown -- it gets
many ...
Bringing
in Bigfoot With a Blimp Gets a Boost
The
Falcon Project, using a blimp to track and find Bigfoot, announced that
Bigfoot expert Jeff Meldrum joined the team as scientific
adviser.
|
Bigfoot's
backyard? 'Sasquatch' sighted in Prospect Park
“I
don't know what it is, but it looks like Bigfoot,” a man going by the
name Russell Strark said. “I don't know what to say, man, I've never
seen ...
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.
UK SIGHTINGS: Scottish Alien Big Cat Being Called ...
UK SIGHTINGS: Could this prove Big Cat living in t...
NEWSLINK: Golden Oaks Village News
NEWSLINK: Lion Man's New Park In South Africa Caus...
NEWSLINK: Zombie Cat: Kitty Needs Week to Recover ...
NEWSLINK: Leopard spotted with three cubs in Kumba...
NEWSLINK: Oregon Lion Encounter Opens for Season
NEWSLINK: Letters: White tigers born of bad practi...
NEWSLINK: Are big cat claims exaggerated?
UK SIGHTINGS: Shropshire man says he has seen big ...
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.
NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)
Loch Ness Monster to star in £2m north of Scotland tourism campaign
The
Loch Ness Monster is to be at the centre of a £2m tourism campaign to
bring more visitors to the north of Scotland. More than 200,000
overseas ...
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!
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.
- Researchers Capture, Document First Northern Saw-w...
- Woman Dies of Trauma from ‘Bird Debt Collector’
- Watch: Starlings swoop and loop in a breathtaking ...
- Parrot Pecking Order Hints at Humans' Social Lives...
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Thursday
ON THIS DAY IN 1728 - John Gay's The Beggar's Opera was first performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London.
Dog disease in lions spread by multiple species
Change way we test and house cattle to control bov...
5 New Species of 'Shimmering' Goblin Spider Discov...
Holy mackerel! Belfast warned not to eat free fish...
The world's oldest known snake fossils: Rolling ba...
First step in plan to save northern white rhino
Company ordered to pay $90,000 for fishing in Ning...
Freshwater Fish are Disappearing: Where is the Glo...
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)
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)
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES:MAMMOTHS IN MALAYA IN 1884?
Today I present a story (which may
or may not be new) I found a couple of days ago. I am NOT definitely saying this
was a mammoth, so indeed I am sitting on the fence. Not with the mammoth (or
whatever it was) because the fence would probably
collapse.
The story is in the New York Tribune
of Sept 22nd 1884:
TWO MAMMOTHS FROM
QUEDAH
ALLEGED REPRESENTATIVES OF AN
EXTINCT SPECIES – RESEMBLANCE TO ELEPHANT
“A large crowd witnessed the
unloading on Saturday,from the steamer Werra,of two strange animals, imported by
Charles Reiche & Brother,and supposed to be Mammoths,technicaly known as
elephas primigenius, and generally considered an extinct species. Years ago, Mr
Reiche was informed by seafaring men who had visited the Malay Peninsula , that the inhabitants had told them of a
peculiar species of pachyderm, seen near Queddah, an inland town. Their branch
house at Alfred ,
Germany , was
instructed to secure a specimen of this animal,if possible,and after a tedious
hunt in the mountain near Queddah, these two animals were captured by the
natives. They were transferred to Mr Reiche`s agent at Singapore,and placed in
charge of John Penja, who accompanied them here. They were seen yesterday by a
Tribune reporter, in a small stall in the hold of the Werra . They kept up a constant rocking movement of the
body until they were placed in a cage, and removed from the ship. There are two
females, four and a half and two and a half feet in height. Their length equals
their height.
The animals bear a general but not
detailed resemblance to an elephant. Their trunks have an upward curve;the
elephants trunk curves backward. Their ears are flapping, but run parallel with
the body, while the elephant`s hang more like a hound`s. A protuberance on the
back resembles the hump of a camel {like the one discovered by Blashford-Snell`s
team in Nepal in 1992-R?} The larger animal,excepting the trunk and legs,is
thickly covered with a coat of dark brown hair, from three to eight inches long.
It resembles bristles,and in some places there is an undergrowth of hair as soft
as wool. The smaller animal is covered with a dark,fuzzy down. The age of the
larger specimen is put at six years,and of the small one at two years. They have
voices entirely out of proportion to their size,and when the keeper pulled the
larger one`s ear she gave a howl that caused the spectator`s to flee. They are
fed on hay,oats and bran,mixed with boiled rice.
Mr Reiche was asked why he thought
the animals were called mammoths. “Because” , he replied, “of their resemblance
to them. Bones of the mammoth have been found in Europe and Asia for many
centuries,but the first complete specimen was found in 1799,by a Tungusian,
named Schumachoft, deeply imbedded in a glacier on the shore of Lake Oncoul. He saw it again in 1803,and
the ice having melted he removed the tusks.”
Here is a story from the Singapore
Free Press July 29th 1912 of another small hairy elephant:
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article.aspx?articleid=singfreepressb19120729-1.2.34&sessionid=5f52732155c34caf906714ab2605d2fc&keyword=hairy+elephant&search=advanced&fromdate=&todate=&articles=1&advertisements=1&illustrations=1&letters=1&obituaries=1&miscellaneous=1&newspaperTitles=&fuzzysearch=Off&token=elephant%2chairy
In his book Pygmy Elephants by
Matt Salusbury ( 2013) pp 142-3 he
comments on a list by Osborn, published in 1942, “ the tentative list included
the hairy Malaysian elephant calf Elephas
indicus hirsutus from London Zoo in 1914,probably a one off freak…”
Karl Shuker in Alien Zoo (2010)
mentions mammoths in Thailand in December
2000.
Further info about Charles Reiche
and Brother can be found in New Worlds,New Animals,From Menagerie to Zoological
Park in the 19th Century https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=15AsyQ8O2qoC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=Charles+Reiche+and+Brother&source=bl&ots=dEArUJE55n&sig=Qinwy31NNxe1Jn3ahstn1TVQDkM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-XaqVI67J438aMPpgaAL&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Reiche%20and%20Brother&f=false
NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)
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Claims Boat Collision Proves Existence Of Loch Ness Monster
A
man who once rented boats on Loch Ness has come forward, claiming that
"flesh and black skin an inch thick" was found clinging to one of
his ...
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!
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.
- AFTER KILLER BIRD ATTACK, POPE LAUNCHES BALLOONS I...
- Indian myna birds could be getting more intelligen...
- Rescuers hope to release first batch of cleaned bi...
HOORAY FOR THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
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!
* 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...
I am not feeling too good this morning, and so,
after the blogs are done - I shall be disappearing into the sitting room to wrap
up warm, listen to Hector Berlioz, cuddle Archie, and write deathless prose on
my iPad. It is nothing serious, but I apologise to everyone in advance, but I
shall not be easy to get hold of today. Normal service will be resumed blah blah
blah...
GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Leonard Cohen -
Hallelujah
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-track-of-day_28.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html
The story continues for Fairport Convention
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-story-continues-for-fairport.html
Barbara Dickson readies for nationwide tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/barbara-dickson-readies-for-nationwide.html
YES/EMPIRE: The Pete Banks Story - Pete Banks
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/yesempire-pete-banks-story-pete-banks.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-track-of-day_28.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html
The story continues for Fairport Convention
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-story-continues-for-fairport.html
Barbara Dickson readies for nationwide tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/barbara-dickson-readies-for-nationwide.html
YES/EMPIRE: The Pete Banks Story - Pete Banks
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/yesempire-pete-banks-story-pete-banks.html
The Gonzo Weekly #114
www.gonzoweekly.com
www.gonzoweekly.com
Barbara Dickson, Pink Fairies, Genesis, Steve
Hackett, Robert Wyatt, Stargrace, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen
fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#114) is
available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Barbara Dickson on the front cover and inside there is an interview by me in
which she talks about her new album and her work with Troy Donockley, Doug goes
back to 1976 and the Genesis 'Seconds Out' Tour, I critique the extraordinary
new Robert Wyatt biography, and also burble on about Bob Dylan, we send the
lovely Stargrace to a desert island, tell you about new Pink Fairies recordings,
marvel at the intrepidness of Steve Hackett, and Xtul are on the road to
Norwich, and there are shows from the multi-talented Neil Nixon at Strange Fruit
and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine
dwellers are still lost at sea. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers wearing new shoes (OK, nothing
to do with small marsupials in search of snazzy footwear, 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 113 (Rocket Scientists cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-112.html
Issue 111 (Mice on Stilts cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-111.html
Issue 109/10 (Yusuf/Stevie Wonder cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/12/gonzo-weekly-10910.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-112.html
Issue 111 (Mice on Stilts cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2015/01/gonzo-weekly-111.html
Issue 109/10 (Yusuf/Stevie Wonder cover)
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2014/12/gonzo-weekly-10910.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/
* 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/…/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit…
* 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 55 who - together with an infantile orange cat 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 infantile orange cat?
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday
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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)
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)
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF:
Is The US Forestry Service Hiding Bigfoot?
Bigfooter
and enthusiast William Jevning thinks that not only does the U.S. Forest Service
know about bigfoot, but they also go to lengths to hide
the ...
Breaking:
Very Compelling Footage of Skunkape/Bigfoot From Lettuce Lake Park
Florida
About
an hour ago, a reader of Bigfoot Evidence, Matt M. (no relation to Matt
Moneymaker), sent us a video that completely blew our minds.