CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 10/22/15

I am a subscriber to the online fishfinder service, and once in a while it means that I receive an email about a particularly desirable fish which has turned up for sale somewhere in the UK this week I received a notification that was of particular interest to me. As you all probably know I spent my childhood in Hong Kong and therefore am particularly interested in Southern Chinese creatures. I have a Southern Chinese fish tank that I have set up in my sitting room and I am always vaguely looking for new fish from the area. So when I received the following email I was quite excited:

“Rarity alert : Chinese Royal Clown Loach, Leptobotia Pellegrini is now in stock at Wildwoods. 16th October 2015. Wildwoods have taken delivery this week of a very rare loach, the Chinese Royal Clown Loach, Leptobotia Pellegrini.. This is the first time Wildwoods have had this particular species in stock and we believe it is only the second time we have seen these fish for sale on Tropicalfishfinder. This is a large species of loach that can grow as big as 20cm and the examples Wildwoods have in stock are between 15cm and 18cm in length. These fish would work particularly well in a large community tank. There are only 8 fish available so be quick if you don't want to miss out on the loach opportunity of the year! The good news is that they are now available on the Tropicalfish2yourdoor shop for overnight delivery direct to your door. The photographs on the left and right are of the actual fish that are for sale”

They are an undeniably handsome species, and furthermore one that I have never seen before so I looked at the price I don’t care how handsome they are, but at £65 a pop, I'm afraid they will not be gracing the CFZ aquaria any time soon.

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I don’t know what it is about Jessica, she is a very nice girl in lots of ways but she just doesn’t get Robert Wyatt. It was only a few weeks ago that she threatened to report me to Childline if I ever played it to her again so I bet she would hate what’s coming up on TV tomorrow evening. Many thanks to John Brody-Good who wrote me this:

“Don’t know if you’ve noticed but there is a 1 hour documentary at 2200 Psychedelic Britannia followed by Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock at the BBC at 2300. Both supposed to be good. You might wanna mention on your daily thingy.”

i think it looks great and I am very much looking forward to it. In yesterdays post I received a copy of the Wally Hope movie and so I have a whole weekend of hippy television to watch, probably along side my 86 years old mother-in-law. She is far more accepting of the hippy nonsense I watch than either Jessica or my lovely wife. She even sat down and watched ‘Lucifer Rising’, and ‘Invocation of my Demon Brother’ and one night she even sat in the corner happily while Max and I got noisily drunk and listened to Comus. I haven’t even dared playing Comus to Jessica yet…

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: BARBARA DICKSON AND EL...

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PREVIEW: Steve Hackett, O2 Guildhall Southampton

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YES CONFIRM FULL EURO TOUR

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Roger McGuinn of The Byrds Makes Stop in Livermore...

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Gonzo Weekly #152

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4th Eden, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Hard Meat, Transmetropolitan, Patto, Steely Dan, Little Feat, Neil Young, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, and Yes fans had better look out!

The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#152) is available to read at www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It has 4th Eden on the front cover together with an interview with him inside, Doug goes to see David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall, Jon muses on Patto and rock and roll archaeology. We review volume one of Transmetropolitan, and Xtul are back in the deep woods. Neil unearths a hidden gem, Thom waxes all poetical like, whilst the legendary Roy Weard continues his regular column, C J Stone does his, and Mr Biffo has more of his regular slices of insanity from the world of Digitiser 2000, and there is a radio show from Strange Fruit, one from Friday Night Progressive and another from our latest addition to the team Mack Moloney. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons wanting a snooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who stayed up too late last night, 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:

Patto, Hard Meat, Damon Albarn, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, James Dean Bradfield, Sting, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Guy Garvey, Steve Hackett, ELO, Frank Zappa, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Smokin' Joe Kubek, John Russell Murphy, Steve Mackay, Carey Lander, Ronald Gordon Honeycombe, Robert Cooper Phillips, Robbin Thompson, James "Jim" Diamond, Michael Hugh Scully, Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Brand X, The Raz Band, Johnny Winter, Alexis Korner, 13th Floor Elevators, Nucleus, Spirits Burning, The Pirates, Martin Eve, 4th Eden, David Gilmour, John Brodie-Good, The Allman Brothers, Steely Dan, Little Feat, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Xtul, Hawkwind, Yes, Billy Sherwood, AndersonPonty Band, John Lennon, Rod Stewart, Grateful Dead, The Osbournes, Chris Bell, Tuatha de Danann

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 151 (Corky Laing)

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Issue 150 (Roger Dean)

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Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)

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Issue 148 (Wally Hope)

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Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)

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Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)

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Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)

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Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)

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Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)

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Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)

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Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)

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Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)

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Issue 139 (Raz cover)

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Issue 138 (Galahad cover)

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Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)

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Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)

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Issue 135 (FNP cover)

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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!

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

CFZ PEOPLE: Jess Heard

Chinese Royal Clown Loach, (Leptobotia Pellegrini)

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN IS

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Thursday