NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)

'skeletal remains' washed up on the shore of Loch Ness found by dog walker

Daily Mail

Nessie hunters have been left scratching their heads after a dog walker found what appears to be the remains of the legendary 'monster' washed up ...

Has the Loch Ness Monster washed up dead on the beach? - AOL Travel UK

Full Coverage

 

RSPB: Give Moths a Home this Summer

The RSPB encourages the public to give moths a home in their gardens this summer by planting food for moths and their caterpillars.

Morwenna Alldis, spokesperson for the RSPB South West said: “In our UK gardens and green spaces we have recorded a staggering 2,400 different species of moth to date. And yet these furry flutterers are often overshadowed by their flashy cousins, the butterflies, who paint our summers with a rainbow of colour. But let’s not forget that moths have eye-catching markings too – a jersey tiger moth, cinnabar or elephant hawk-moth can out-bedazzle any painted lady.

“Similar to butterflies, moths undergo several stages of metamorphosis before reaching adulthood. They start life as caterpillars, which then pupate in a silken cocoon, before poking-out a feathery antenna to read the air for the first time. In fact, moth’s antennae help them to sense smell and navigate their flight. Most of our UK moths fly at night, whereas butterflies are daytime lovers. And when a moth lands it typically keeps its wings open, unlike butterflies who tend to close their wings when resting.

“Here at the RSPB we think it’s time to start showing our garden moths some love. Moths are vital pollinators for some of our wild flowers and trees. Perhaps a harsh truth to stomach, but moths are vital links in nature’s food chain too. They are also an important food source for bats and birds. At this time of year moth caterpillars are fed to many of our garden bird chicks including blue tits, great tits and robins. By following our simple planting top tips, you too can help give moths a home in your own garden.”

Plant Food for Moths                                                                                                    

Morwenna explains: “Moths need to drink nectar for energy, so grow nectar-rich plants which flower throughout spring, summer and autumn. If you have the space, create a moth-friendly border around your garden. If space is limited, simply plant the below in amongst your other flowers or in pots scattered around your garden.

For night-flying moths in summer plant:     

·         Nicotiana alata - grow in the flower bed

·         Jasmine - a climber to grow up a trellis 

·         Honeysuckle - a climber to grow up a trellis or into a tree

·         Hemp-agrimony - a perennial plant about 1m tall, with soft, lilac heads of flowers, that will form a bigger and bigger clump each year

·         Sweet rocket - a beautiful plant for the flower border you can grow from seed each year.

For night-flying moths in autumn try:

·        Ivy

·         Michaelmas daisy

·         Sedum spectabile

Feed Your Caterpillars

Morwenna continues: “As well as providing sustenance for adult moths it’s vital to give young, soon-to-be moths something to munch whilst in their caterpillar phase. Butterfly Conservation advises that whilst some moth caterpillars will eat a variety of plants, most species rely on just a few specific types, if not only one. So the best method to ensure you’re keeping every caterpillar happy is to grow a variety of plants – the greener your garden the better.

“Native plants are preferable (although the caterpillars of the elephant hawk-moth delight on fuchsias); especially native trees such as birch, oak and willow, which are a favourite dinner for moth caterpillars. To get a better idea of what native plants you should choose, look around you local area and mimic what already grows there naturally. 

“Planting a native hedge that includes a variety of species, is also an excellent way to nourish caterpillars, as well as providing safe highways and byways for our small garden mammals to move. It’s also really beneficial to leave an area of your garden un-mown so that some of your native grasses and weeds can thrive to feed the caterpillars, including: dandelions, docks, brambles, nettles and bedstraws.

If You Build It They Will Come – Enjoy Spotting Your Garden Moths

Morwenna says: “You’ve spent a few hours in the garden adding some nectar giving and caterpillar munchable plants and your garden is now a veritable moth Eden – next step is to take time out to enjoy the benefits of your work and spot the moths and caterpillars that now call your garden home. Take a night time stroll around your garden and let your torch reveal your garden moths enjoying a sip or two of nectar from your flowers. If you have an outside light, turn it on and see what moths are attracted to it – always have your moth guide to hand. Or set-up an overnight moth trap – an exciting activity, that always thrills children and adults alike and opens your eyes to the tremendous variety of wildlife that we share our homes with.”

To find out how you can give even more nature a home in your garden and create your own personalised plan based on your location, visit: www.rspb.org.uk/plan

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS HOME

The Gonzo Daily - Thursday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

 

After a gap of a week during which I bought my young granddaughters pretty hats and took them to the zoo where they admired a family of Indian porcupines, and giggled at the red buttocks of the Sulawesi crested macaques, just as children have ever since the Good Lord first made Sulawesi crested macaques for small children to giggle at, the travelling circus has returned. Archie ran around chasing his tail and barking joyously until settling on my lap exhausted. And I had 1,200 emails this morning. And so the great dance continues.

 

RAWLINSON END REVIEW

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/rawlinson-end-review.html

GENRE PEAK REVIEW

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/genre-peak-review.html

RAZ REVIEW

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/raz-review_30.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_30.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Erik Norlander - The G...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-erik-norlander_30.html

 

And now I am on the want again. It is time, once again, for me to remind you all about this year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of  Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..

 

find out all about the Weird Weekend

http://www.weirdweekend.org

buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:

http://tinyurl.com/jnke

 

Gonzo Magazine #187-8

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

The last two weekends are covered by the bumper issue - The Gonzo Summer Special with a mixture of old and new stuff for your delight and amazement! We interview Bridget Wishart and Ian Jones from Karnataka, Alan goes to see Neil Young, Erik Norlander's new album, John B-G goes on a pilgrimage to the West Coast of America, Doug

eulogises Security Project, Orrin talks about German psychedelic folk, we send the legendary John Hughes to a desert island, Jon reviews a book by and about Frederick Forsyth and burbles on about British comics, we interview Karnataka about a very special concert, while Corinna talks about shopping with mother. Just another day chez Gonzo.

 

And there  are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:

Karnataka, Gorillaz, Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Ringo Starr, All-Starrs,Cliff Richard, Morrissey, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox, Henry Campbell Liken McCullough, Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman, Robert Allen "Bobby" Curtola, CM, Tom Leppard, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band, Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick Abrahams, Barbara Dickson, Bridget Wishart, Spirits Burning, Peter Gabriel, Alan Dearling, Neil Young, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, The Jungle Book, Roy Weard, Orrin Hare, Krautfolk, Mr Biffo, Xtul, Hawkwind, John Hughes,Frederick Forsyth, Marc Bolan, Elvis, Mitch Mitchell, Robert Johnson, Ginger Spice, Neil Nixon, Robert Calvert

                                                                                   

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 186 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 185 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo184.html

Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo183.html

Issue 182 (Wally)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo182.html

Issue 181 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo181.html

Issue 180 (Beltane)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo180.html

Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html

Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html

Issue 177 (David Gilmour)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo175.html

Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo174.html

Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo173.html

Issue 172 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo172.html

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo171.html

Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html

Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html

Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.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/

 

SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

 

 

* 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.co.uk

 

* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Cumberland County, Kentucky Bigfoot Encounters

Bigfoot Evidence - Blogger

Radio interview of bigfoot encounters in Kentucky. Discussing recent Cumberland County Bigfoot sightings. Review the full reports at ...

'Be Prepared, Not Scared' offers kids a chance to track Bigfoot

Alabama's News Leader

A group of campers is hot on the trail of Bigfoot at Ruffner Mountain and they're learning survival skills along the way. "Prepared , Not Scared" is a one ...

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.

• Urban bird species risk dying prematurely due to s...
• Reopening wharf could scare off rare shag

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Thursday:

ON THIS DAY IN - 1908 - A meteor explosion in Siberia knocked down trees in a 40-mile radius and struck people unconscious some 40 miles away. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Rays Don't Stray: Giant Mantas Stick Close to Home...

Spot the bee: scientists release hundreds of numbe...

Rediscovering a wasp after 101 years

Finding Dory, Killing Dory: Your 'Dory' Might Have...

EU plans to help fight wildlife crime

Invasive species could cause billions in damages t...

The sculpture controlled by bees: Wolfgang Buttres...

Woman attacked by bear while running marathon in N...

Giant crab horde gathers in Aus

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)

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.

Iconic wild birds once close to extinction make as...

Monogamous West Norfolk bird wins a second partner...

Two grey plover birds tracked leaving Adelaide and...

Great Scot, it’s a great knot! - Twitchers flock t...

CRYPTOLINK - Ukrainian Farmer claims he caught Chupacabra

A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me. 

Is this the Ukrainian chupacabra? Farmer claims he caught legendary blood-sucking beast in his barn

Creature reported to have been hunted by a pitchfork-wielding farmer.

Man, known as Ivan, killed chupacraba after it stalked into his barn.

Vets are now studying the creature but cannot identify what it is.

Read more: LINK

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS STILL AWAY

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

 

I think today is the day the wanderers return to CFZ Towers, although I haven't had any confirmation of that, just yet. It's fairly cold and wet in Devon, and there's roadwork closures on one of our main roads, but that's hardly going to come as a surprise to them.

 

And now, as things are running a bit late, here, let's get to today's site updates:

 

Captain Beefheart on Late Night with David Letterman (1983)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/captain-beefheart-on-late-night-with.html

The Animals interview 1983 - Eric Burdon, Chas Chandler, Alan Price

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-animals-interview-1983-eric-burdon.html

NBC - Frank Zappa Interview Near Death

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/nbc-frank-zappa-interview-near-death.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Can't Get Enough - Bad Company

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-cant-get-enough.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_52.html

 

--

 

And now I am on the want again. It is time, once again, for me to remind you all about this year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of  Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..

 

find out all about the Weird Weekend

http://www.weirdweekend.org

buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:

http://tinyurl.com/jnke

 

 

Gonzo Magazine #187-8

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

Last weekend and this coming one is covered by the bumper issue - The Gonzo Summer Special with a mixture of old and new stuff for your delight and amazement! We interview Bridget Wishart and Ian Jones from Karnataka, Alan goes to see Neil Young, Erik Norlander's new album, John B-G goes on a pilgrimage to the West Coast of America, Doug

eulogises Security Project, Orrin talks about German psychedelic folk, we send the legendary John Hughes to a desert island, Jon reviews a book by and about Frederick Forsyth and burbles on about British comics, we interview Karnataka about a very special concert, while Corinna talks about shopping with mother. Just another day chez Gonzo.

 

And there  are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:

Karnataka, Gorillaz, Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Ringo Starr, All-Starrs,Cliff Richard, Morrissey, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox, Henry Campbell Liken McCullough, Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman, Robert Allen "Bobby" Curtola, CM, Tom Leppard, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band, Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick Abrahams, Barbara Dickson, Bridget Wishart, Spirits Burning, Peter Gabriel, Alan Dearling, Neil Young, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, The Jungle Book, Roy Weard, Orrin Hare, Krautfolk, Mr Biffo, Xtul, Hawkwind, John Hughes,Frederick Forsyth, Marc Bolan, Elvis, Mitch Mitchell, Robert Johnson, Ginger Spice, Neil Nixon, Robert Calvert

                                                                                   

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 186 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 185 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo184.html

Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo183.html

Issue 182 (Wally)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo182.html

Issue 181 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo181.html

Issue 180 (Beltane)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo180.html

Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html

Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html

Issue 177 (David Gilmour)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo175.html

Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo174.html

Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo173.html

Issue 172 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo172.html

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo171.html

Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html

Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html

Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.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/

 

SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

 

 

* 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.co.uk

 

* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

If Bigfoot Were Real.

A short column in Scientific American, by Darren Naish. He's unconvinced, and finds the evidence lacking. "We have the Bigfoot vocalizations, we have the Bigfoot tracks, we have the Bigfoot DNA, right? Well…"

I've seen so many fake pictures of Bigfoot that...

Shower Thoughts

I've seen so many fake pictures of Bigfoot that looked real, that if I saw a real picture of Bigfoot I would think it was fake.

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN 2007 - The first generation Apple iPhone went on sale...

And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk:

Mammals almost wiped out with the dinosaurs

Someone has just found a sea monster off Antarctic...

How early mammals evolved night vision to avoid predators

New lizard found in Dominican Republic

ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier

News and stories from the remoter fringes of the CFZ blogosphere...

From CFZ Australia:

• Latest FB "thylacine" Prank Photo (see picture above)

From CFZ-USA:

• BIGFOOT IN NORTHERN GEORGIA
• MISSOURI DOGMAN ENCOUNTER
• RED KITES STEAL UNDERWEAR
• WINGED CREATURE IN PUERTO RICO
• IS THIS A MUMMIFIED KAPPA?
• DOGMAN SYMPOSIUM COMING UP
• AHEM!
• SCOTTISH UFO AND SUPERNATURAL CONFIDENCE
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• HUMANS DESCENDED FROM MERMAIDS?
• MEN-IN-BLACK
• GATOR MAN
• MONKEY-FACED FLYING CREATURE
• ROUGAROU IN MISSISSIPPI
• ALLEGED BIGFOOT COVERUP
• HORSES OF THE WATER
• BIGFOOT MOVIE SHOOTING IN OHIO
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• MULTIPLE UNIVERSES
• APPEARANCE OF FAIRIES
• MEN-IN-BLACK
• NAVAJO BIGFOOT STORIES
• ZAPPED BY BIGFOOT?
• SPIX'S MACAW NOT EXTINCT
• INSECT LOVER'S GUIDE
• HAS BIGFOOT A LANGUAGE?
• ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
• PTEROSAUR REPORT
• FAIRIES IN OHIO?

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.

Kaikoura's endemic bird offers rare opportunity fo...

Rare Puerto Rican Bird Receives Endangered Species...

Why North Korea is a safe haven for birds

Rare spoon-billed sandpipers lay for first time in...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Feature: Is Big Foot fairy tale or real?

Asia Pacific Daily

... hairy monsters that live deep in the woods about 150 km east of the Canadian city of Vancouver

Searching for Bigfoot in northern Minnesota

Glock Talk

We used to vacation in the Brainerd/Aitkin area every summer when I was a kid. 

Sasquatch Chases After An ATV

Bigfoot Evidence - Blogger

On Sundays show we will be speaking to a listener who describes being chased on his ATV by a Sasquatch and having a boulder size rock thrown

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HASN'T PHONED IN YET

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

 

Haven't had any phone updates from the travelling CFZ-ers just yet, so we'll assume no news is good news.

Meanwhile, following England's latest exploits in Europe, this time on the football field, one television pundit suggested that the 'Monstars from Space Jam' stole the team's talent away. He then added that the failure was "literally unexplainable". 

However, there's been no shortage of people attempting to explain it. By the way, Space Jam is a cartoon movie about basketball, for those who don't know. I know, because I did a search for the phrase; and then made a mental note not to watch that particular film!

 

And now to today's site updates:

 

Frank Zappa - Baltimore Interview, August 1985

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/frank-zappa-baltimore-interview-august.html

Eric Burdon - An Amoeba Interview - 2013

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/eric-burdon-amoeba-interview-2013.html

Leonard Cohen Q&A At 2014 London Popular Problems Preview

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/leonard-cohen-q-at-2014-london-popular.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Golden Earring - Candy's Going Bad

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-golden-earring.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_28.html

 

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And now I am on the want again. It is time, once again, for me to remind you all about this year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of  Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..

 

find out all about the Weird Weekend

http://www.weirdweekend.org

buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:

http://tinyurl.com/jnke

 

 

Gonzo Magazine #187-8

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

Last weekend and this coming one is covered by the bumper issue - The Gonzo Summer Special with a mixture of old and new stuff for your delight and amazement! We interview Bridget Wishart and Ian Jones from Karnataka, Alan goes to see Neil Young, Erik Norlander's new album, John B-G goes on a pilgrimage to the West Coast of America, Doug

eulogises Security Project, Orrin talks about German psychedelic folk, we send the legendary John Hughes to a desert island, Jon reviews a book by and about Frederick Forsyth and burbles on about British comics, we interview Karnataka about a very special concert, while Corinna talks about shopping with mother. Just another day chez Gonzo.

 

And there  are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:

Karnataka, Gorillaz, Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Ringo Starr, All-Starrs,Cliff Richard, Morrissey, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox, Henry Campbell Liken McCullough, Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman, Robert Allen "Bobby" Curtola, CM, Tom Leppard, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band, Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick Abrahams, Barbara Dickson, Bridget Wishart, Spirits Burning, Peter Gabriel, Alan Dearling, Neil Young, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, The Jungle Book, Roy Weard, Orrin Hare, Krautfolk, Mr Biffo, Xtul, Hawkwind, John Hughes,Frederick Forsyth, Marc Bolan, Elvis, Mitch Mitchell, Robert Johnson, Ginger Spice, Neil Nixon, Robert Calvert

                                                                                   

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 186 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 185 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo184.html

Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo183.html

Issue 182 (Wally)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo182.html

Issue 181 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo181.html

Issue 180 (Beltane)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo180.html

Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html

Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html

Issue 177 (David Gilmour)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo175.html

Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo174.html

Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo173.html

Issue 172 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo172.html

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo171.html

Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html

Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html

Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.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/

 

SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

 

 

* 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.co.uk

 

* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?

 

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN 1965 - The first commercial satellite (Early Bird) began communications service. 

And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk:

Strange! This Giraffe's Skin Is Turning White

Butterfly Thieves Steal From 'Badass' Ants—A First...

Mass elephant relocation could save populations in...

Saiga antelope numbers rise after mass die-off

Artist plans to paint 50,000 honeybees around the ...

Down To The Last Three: Can Stem Cell Save Norther...

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.

Rare, unusual bird spotted in Seychelles by local university student

Endangered Birds Take Flight

Rare bird of prey found at airbase

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HAS HEADED EAST

The Gonzo Daily - Sunday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

 

Rhymes are fine, but I prefer wine. Oh... I'm not sure that works, really. Graham still manning the Prog-Watch control tower.. Hello again!

 

Actually, speaking of wine, I saw an interesting comment on the result of the Brexit vote, which said that wine drinkers tended to vote Remain, while beer and lager drinkers were more inclined to vote Leave. Not that there's a shortage of opinions in the newspapers and on television, so anyone who doesn't rate that 'analysis' very highly has plenty of others to choose from!

 

And here are today's musical updates:

 

John Etheridge (ex-Hawkwind etc) interviewed by Gordon Giltrap

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-etheridge-ex-hawkwind-etc.html

Canterbury Scene: A 2009 interview with Steve Hillage & Daevid Allen

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/canterbury-scene-2009-interview-with.html

Jon Anderson (Yes) interview 2007

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/jon-anderson-yes-interview-2007.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Sacred Shinto music and dance (Kagura, Japanese traditional dance)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-gonzo-track-of-day-sacred-shinto.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem (Brexit)

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2016/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem-today-its.html

 

 

--

 

And now I am on the want again. It is time, once again, for me to remind you all about this year's Weird Weekend featuring our very own Steve Ignorant, sponsored by our very own Erik Norlander, compèred by me and the return of  Nuneaton's Mr Entertainment, Barry Tadcaster with his pal Orang Pendek, and featuring a whole cornucopia of high strangeness and cerebral silliness. It would make me very happy if I could sell some more tickets..

 

find out all about the Weird Weekend

http://www.weirdweekend.org

buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:

http://tinyurl.com/jnke

 

 

Gonzo Magazine #187-8

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

Last weekend and this coming one is covered by the bumper issue - The Gonzo Summer Special with a mixture of old and new stuff for your delight and amazement! We interview Bridget Wishart and Ian Jones from Karnataka, Alan goes to see Neil Young, Erik Norlander's new album, John B-G goes on a pilgrimage to the West Coast of America, Doug

eulogises Security Project, Orrin talks about German psychedelic folk, we send the legendary John Hughes to a desert island, Jon reviews a book by and about Frederick Forsyth and burbles on about British comics, we interview Karnataka about a very special concert, while Corinna talks about shopping with mother. Just another day chez Gonzo.

 

And there  are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, and Friday Night Progressive. We also have columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons outside zoos(OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have escaped from captivity, 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:

Karnataka, Gorillaz, Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Ringo Starr, All-Starrs,Cliff Richard, Morrissey, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox, Henry Campbell Liken McCullough, Lincoln Wayne "Chips" Moman, Robert Allen "Bobby" Curtola, CM, Tom Leppard, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band, Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick Abrahams, Barbara Dickson, Bridget Wishart, Spirits Burning, Peter Gabriel, Alan Dearling, Neil Young, John Brodie-Good, Paul Kantner, The Jungle Book, Roy Weard, Orrin Hare, Krautfolk, Mr Biffo, Xtul, Hawkwind, John Hughes,Frederick Forsyth, Marc Bolan, Elvis, Mitch Mitchell, Robert Johnson, Ginger Spice, Neil Nixon, Robert Calvert

                                                                                   

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 186 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 185 (Judge Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo185.html

Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo184.html

Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo183.html

Issue 182 (Wally)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo182.html

Issue 181 (Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo181.html

Issue 180 (Beltane)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo180.html

Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo179.html

Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo177.html

Issue 177 (David Gilmour)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo176.html

Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo175.html

Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo174.html

Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo173.html

Issue 172 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo172.html

Issue 171 (Keith Levene)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo171.html

Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo170.html

Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo169.html

Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo168.html

Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo167.html

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo166.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/

 

SPECIAL NOTICE: If you, too, want to unleash the power of your inner rock journalist, and want to join a rapidly growing band of likewise minded weirdos please email me at jon@eclipse.co.uk The more the merrier really.

 

 

* 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.co.uk

 

* 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 56 who - together with an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two small kittens, one 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. 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 kittens?