Thursday, January 22, 2015

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)



Nessie Ladle
Designed by OTOTO to look eerily reminiscent of what we assume the Loch Ness monster looks like, this Nessie Ladle is adorable. Available on ...
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BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF:




Does Bigfoot Hibernate?
Why are there fewer Bigfoot reports during the winter months? Is there something to the theory that Bigfoots hibernate like bears? Is it possible that ...

Coming up in Thursday's Courier — Bigfoot spotted in Angus
I appreciate others may be somewhat more cynical but for those of us currently cowering in Coming Up Corner, there is little doubt the hairy beast is 

The Truth Behind Todd Standing And The Bigfoot Of The Sylvanic Project
The Truth Behind Todd Standing And The Bigfoot Of The Sylvanic Project. Wednesday, January 21, 2015 7:14. % of readers think this story is Fact

'My reports of seeing a monster were not taken seriously' — woman says she saw Bigfoot in Angus
Charmaine Fraser, 41, claims to have seen a Bigfoot near a disused sandstone quarry during a morning walk with her gran's dog as a child. She has ...
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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 IS BUSY

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday
 
Today Corinna and I are out to lunch. Well, I know that one could say that about me in particular most days, but today we literally are! (By the way, don't you just hate people who say 'literally' when they mean 'figuratively'? I would literally pay good money to see them eaten alive by wild dogs. But I am, of course, literally a psycho). We are off to Hartland to have lunch at The Small School, talk about this year's Weird Weekend, and meet the new Headmistress. Literally!
 
 
The Gonzo Weekly #113
www.gonzoweekly.com
 
Rick Wakeman, Jethro Tull, Renaissance, John Lennon, Jon Anderson, Yes, Hawkwind, and Daevid Allen fans had better look out!
 
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#113) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Rick Wakeman on the front cover and everything you will want to know about his new tour, Jon reviews a book which wonders what would have happened if John Lennon had left the Beatles back in 1960, we send Richard Stellar to a desert island, givce you the new Renaissance tour dates, 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 antyichinuses looking for clues (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials playing at being Sherlock Holmes, 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!
 
You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:
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?
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RAINES EXPLAINS: The Weird Weekend

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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.
  • NEWSLINK: Big cat rescued from ex-professor’s bedr...
  • NEWSLINK: What would it take for a catamount come...


  • India's tiger population sees 30% increase
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    NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Thursday

    ON THIS DAY IN 1771 - The Falkland Islands were ceded to Britain by Spain. 

  • Biggest fish in the ocean receives international p...
  • Weird creature with 'rodent-like teeth' washes up ...
  • Predatory sea snails produce weaponized insulin
  • Wolf cull will not save threatened Canadian caribo...
  • Dog-human cooperation is based on social skills of...

  • Mexico to employ drones in tracking endangered por...

    • 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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