Tuesday, April 14, 2015

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN RETREATS TO A PREPARED POSITION

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday
The strange aura that surrounds us all continues; one intern is off sick ad the other two will be arriving imminently. I really did set out to get all the blogs done before they arrived, but things like breakfast, my daily webcomics and all the other stuff that the cosmic trickster sends to distract me. Those jolly nice folk at Gwulo have finally solved a mystery that has been mildly bugging me for half a century. I now know what the ruins that I used to play on in Hong Kong as a little boy were. And there are pictures.. http://gwulo.com/node/23938
The Gonzo Weekly #125
www.gonzoweekly.com
Mick Abrahams, Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig, Magma, Robin Trower, G.G.Allin and the Murder Junkies, Brian Wilson, Mark Ellen, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#125) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has Mike Abrahams on the cover, and inside yours truly interviews the man himself about his extraordinary new album. Doug writes about Magma, Davey Curtis goes to see Robin Trower, and Jon critiques the new Brian Wilson album and the delightful autobiography of Mark Ellen. Neil Nixon reports on an even stranger album than usual, Wyrd goes avant garde, Xtul gets even more peculiar, and there are radio shows from Strange Fruit and from M Destiny at Friday Night Progressive, and the titular submarine dwellers are still lost at sea, although I have been assured that they will hit land again soon. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons trying to choose (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials having difficulty in making choices, 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!!!
This issue features:
Frances Bean Cobain, B.B. King,Mick Jagger, Barry Manilow, Shaun Ryder, Bertrand Pourcheron, Joni Mitchell, Karnataka, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Bob Burns, James Best, John Shuttleworth, Hugh Hopper, Rocket Scientists, Tommy James, Birmingham Sunday, Inner City Unit, Mick Abrahams, OneRepublic, Ellie Goulding, Florence and the Machine, Brantley Gilbert,Mick Abrahams, Magma, Robin Trower, Hawkwind, Yes, Bill Bruford, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Toto, 4th Eden, Mark Ellen, Xtul, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Wilson, Neil Nixon, G G Allin and the Murder Junkies, Vanir
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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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 CFZ-USA:
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WYRD: The first video from the Organik Reflektion project

Wyrd
http://wyrdsounds.blogspot.com/2015/04/4theden-organik-reflektion.html
Title track form the new EP... it features many scenes from my area including a quoit in Cornwall, Hartland Quay, Croyde and Bideford
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BLUE DOGS: Naomi sent this picture:

Naomi wrote: "This was taken last year around Barstow, California, from a man that used to work with Richie. Notice it appears to be a female but it also has those pads on the back."

Well this is a game changer!  Until now, I have always taken it as gospel that only the male blue dogs have the weird pouches on their haunches.  But, as you say, this photograph does definitely appear to be a female; no external genitalia, and, what appear to be nipples hanging down.  I would hazard a guess that this is not just a female, but a female that is, or has recently been, nursing.
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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



The Bluegrass Bigfoot: Sasquatch In Kentucky
The Bluegrass Bigfoot: Sasquatch In Kentucky. ... Bigfoot Witness Interview and Area Investigation. by CryptoTV+. 342 views. 19:24 ...


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NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN 1775 - The first abolitionist society in U.S. was organized in Philadelphia with Ben Franklin as president. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

  • Animals can adapt to increasingly frequent cold sn...
  • Quokka survives alleged attempt by French tourists...
  • Giant sea lizards in the age of dinosaurs: A new b...
  • More than 130 dolphins beach in Japan

  • Lake Oku clawed frog saved from brink of extinctio...

    • 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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