Wednesday, November 18, 2015
THE CRYPTODANE: The days of the jackal
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS OVER THERE
The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
Denmark has been on the forefront of cryptozoological news in recent years.
It was only a couple of years ago that it was confirmed that the gray wolf had
returned to the country for the first time in several hundred years. Now it
appears that an even more exotic canid has arrived in the small Scandinavian
country. Our old friend Lars Thomas tells the story of Denmark's first known
golden jackal http://tinyurl.com/qaf5b8e.
The interesting thing about the golden jackal is that although it is native
to southeastern and central Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and South Asia.
genetic studies published in 2015 revealed that six supposed golden jackal
subspecies living in Africa were members of a separate species, Canis anthus,
reducing the number of actual golden jackal subspecies to seven. The nearest
known population, as far as I am able to ascertain is in the Czech Republic, but
as the gray wolf has expanded its range massively in recent years, and as the
lines between wolf and jackal are becoming increasingly blurred, this new
development is an exciting one.
I had a long chat with a old and dear friend last night. I know that he
sometimes reads my daily blatherings, and I would just like him to know that we
are all rooting for him , and we have his corner because – although the silly
bugger doesn't realise it – a lot of people actually love him very much.
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Gonzo Weekly #156
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Rick Wakeman, Emmy Beckitt, Led Zeppelin, Steve Ignorant, Daniel Roberson,
Corky Laing, Mountain, Lee Brilleaux, Dr Feelgood, Digitiser, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Mack Moloney, A J Smitrovich, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion,
Hawkwind, Jon Anderson, Mack Moloney, and Yes fans had better look out!
The latest issue of Gonzo Weekly (#156) is available to read at
www.gonzoweekly.com, and to download at http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/. It
has Rick Wakeman and Emmie Beckitt on the cover and news on their remarkable new
collaboration inside. Doug writes about Led Zeppelin,Jon critiques a fascinating
new Biography of Lee Brilleaux from Dr Feelgood, we meet the man who painted
Steve Ignorant, and Corinna sneers at some more tacky pop memorabilia. 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, A J Smitrovich continues thumbing through his Dad's LPs, 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 Mack Moloney. There is also a collection of more news, reviews,
views, interviews and antechinuses wanting poos (OK, nothing to do with small
marsupials who are slightly constipated, 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:
Gong, Daevid Allen, Queen, Blur, U2, Larry Mullen, Elton John, Motley Crue,
Tommy Lee, Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life, John Lennon, Corky Laing, Mountain,
Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Phil
Taylor, Andrew "Andy" White, Helmit Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt, Allen Toussaint,
Charlie Dick, Edward "Fast Eddie" Hoh, Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, Brandon
Carlise, Chuck Pyle, Nucleus, The RAZ Band, Mark Murdock, Brand X, Alexis
Korner, 13th Floor Elevators Emmie Beckitt, Rick Wakeman, Led Zeppelin, Daniel
Roberson, Davey Curtis, Roy Weard, My Dad's LPs, A.J. Smitrovich, Mr Biffo,
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Jones, The Beatles, U2, Kylie Minogue, Frank Zappa, Morrissey, The Smiths, Yes,
Steve Hackett, Elton John, Tommie Phillips, AndersonPonty Band, Billy Sherwood,
Tony
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Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
Issue 151 (Corky Laing)
Issue 150 (Roger Dean)
Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)
Issue 148 (Wally Hope)
Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)
Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)
Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)
Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)
Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)
Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)
Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)
Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)
Issue 139 (Raz cover)
Issue 138 (Galahad cover)
Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)
Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)
Issue 135 (FNP cover)
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer.
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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an
old hippy of 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song
by Frank Zappa, and a small kitten totally coincidentally named after one of the
Manson Family, purely because she squeaks, 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 young lady called Jessica. 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, and the adventurous kitten?
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
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New
York Daily News
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Bigfoot may have been purchased by
an attorney in 1976
(Originally published by the Daily News on January 3,
1976. This story was written by Donald Singleton.) Here's the story as we heard
it. Whether you ...
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New
York Daily News
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Bigfoot may have been purchased by
an attorney in 1976
(Originally published by the Daily News on January 3,
1976. This story was written by Donald Singleton.) Here's the story as we heard
it. Whether you ...
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New
York Daily News
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Bigfoot, blue man and flying saucer
hoaxes in 1958
Then there was Big Foot. He lumbered out of the
tall timber in northern California last year and is now so famous that official
chamber of commerce ...
Hunter
Finds Possible Bigfoot Tracks In Ohio With Photos
From
the facebook page of the Ohio Bigfoot Conference: "Possible juvenile
tracks from Trumbull County, Ohio???? Found by a hunter in early Fall way ...
When
It Comes To Bigfoot Narration, This Guy Was One Of The Best
When
people think of classic bigfoot documentaries, and the voices behind
them, Leonard Nimoy probably comes to mind more than any. But a close ...
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ThurstonTalk
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Discover the Sasquatch Summit at Quinault
Beach Resort
In the 1920's North American journalists first used the
term 'Sasquatch,' with the more familiar 'Bigfoot' began soon after. In
Australia they call him ...
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: Woman thinks a cougar was on her propert...
NEWSLINK: Evidence of big cats mounts
NEWSLINK: Three injured in leopard attack
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.
- Bird count revived after 20 years
- Young hen harrier which was fitted with satellite ...
- Ontario considers regulations to protect birds fro...
- Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Just what are these m...
NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)
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Deutsche
Welle
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Looking for Nessie
Is the Loch Ness real or just a clever marketing
idea to boost tourism? It is certainly ... Around 1000 people are convinced they
have seen the monster.
NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN 1477 - William Caxton produced "Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres," which was the first book to be printed in England.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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)