CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 02/03/16

Wednesday, February 03, 2016

THE GONZO BLOCK DOO-DAH MAN SEASONED WITH A PINCH OF QUETIAPINE

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday

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One of the best things about having a mildly failing memory is that lots of things come as a nice surprise. I had a lovely letter with some poems from my friend Karen Gensheimer this morning. She had told me she was sending some, but I had forgotten completely, which got my day off to a very pleasant start. She is a remarkably good poet, and I am very fond of her.

I was in both the Daily Mail and The Sun yesterday, commenting on recent photographs of what some are claiming are footprints of a yeti.

"Jon Downes, director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, said the slope is so steep that only an animal like a mountain goat would have been able to negotiate it. He said: ‘I think that the chances of these prints being from anything more interesting are negligible and it is certainly not a bipedal higher primate. The centre of gravity for such an animal would mean it just wouldn’t be able to venture up a mountain like that.’"

The story has been picked up by all sorts of people http://tinyurl.com/zh3t3pm but the best thing, as far as I am concerned, is: FOR ONCE I WASN'T MISQUOTED, OR QUOTED OUT OF CONTEXT TO MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A COMPLETE WEIRDO. I am a complete weirdo, of course, but I don't need Her Majesty's Press to point out the fact!

Happy Days...

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jazz, Rock, Fusion wit..

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/the-gonzo-track-of-day-jazz-rock-fusion.html.

Eric Burdon & The Animals Announce First Aus Shows...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/eric-burdon-animals-announce-first-aus.html

Laurel and Hardy dance to Yes

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/laurel-and-hardy-dance-to-yes.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/thom-world-poet-daily-poem.html

Zappa live DVD Belgium review translated

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/zappa-live-dvd-belgium-review-translated.html

Gonzo Weekly #167

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Paul Kantner, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Erik Norlander, Daisy Flowers, Ambrosia, Suede, David Bowie, Villagers, Skunk Anansie, Nigel Kennedy, Black, Colin Vearncombe, George Harrison, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!

Paul Kantner who died on thursday is on the front cover together with a tribute to him inside. Jon interviews Erik Norlander, Doug interviews Ambrosia, John goes to see Nigel Kennedy, and Lee says goodbye to Colin Vearncombe. There are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, and Mack Moloney, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all sorts of folk including Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, Mr Biffo and the irrepressable Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and pademelons ouyside 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:

David Bowie, Suede, Villagers, Skunk Anansie, P J Harvey, Pet Shop Boys, Elvis Presley, Handel, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Brian Wilson, Mick Jagger, Wild Man Fischer, Steve Ignorant, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Paul Kantner, Colin Vearncombe, James Stewart "Jimmy" Bain, Alex Wishart, The Pirates, Freddie King, Denny Laine, The Selecter, Galahad, Rick Wakeman, Erik Norlander, Ambrosia, Nigel Kennedy, John Brodie-Good, Black, Lee Walker, Roy Weard, A J Smitrovich, My Dad's LPs, Mr Biffo, Yes, Jon Anderson, Billy Sherwood, Chris Squire, Tony Kaye, Trevor Rabin, Hawkwind, Xtul, George Harrison, Beatles, ABBA, The Monkees, Neil Nixon, Marc Bolan and T. Rex, Bucovina

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

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

Issue 165 (David Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo165.html

Issue 164 (Free Festivals)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo164.html

Issue 163 (Lemmy)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo163.html

Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-161-21-yer-festive-double-issue.html

Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo160.html

Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo159.html

Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo158.html

Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo157.html

Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo156.html

Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo155.html

Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo154.html

Issue 153 (Martin Barre)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo153.html

Issue 152 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo152.html

Issue 151 (Corky Laing)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo151.html

Issue 150 (Roger Dean)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo150.html

Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo149.html

Issue 148 (Wally Hope)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo148.html

Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo147.html

Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo146.html

Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo145.html

Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo144.html

Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo143.html

Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo142.html

Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo141.html

Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo140.html

Issue 139 (Raz cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo139.html

Issue 138 (Galahad cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo138.html

Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo137.html

Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo136.html

Issue 135 (FNP cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo135.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?

THE CRYPTODANE:Macaques and other mysteries

A few days ago, a barbary macaque which up until then had lived quite contendedly in Blåvand Zoo (Blåvand is the westernmost town in Denmark in case you should wonder), suddenly decided, that enough is enough and scarpered. This was in many ways an ill-considered move by said itchy-footed monkey. First and foremost because it has been teeth-chatteringly cold in Denmark lately, with nighttime temperatures hovering around the -15°C mark and lots of snow, which almost certainly will translate into a miserable time for said macaque.

Secondly and thirdly because the zoo was not keen on losing one of their animals, and nobody was particularly keen on having a teeth-wise heavily armed monkey on the loose – barbary macaques are known for their crankiness. The animal was spotted a couple of times in the general area, shortly after its escape, but all has turned quiet now, and there is only the occational glimpse of the thing. It is probably sheltering in a stable or a barn somewhere, waiting for things to get better, and possible for the chance to scare the living daylights out of the owner of the place.

Read on...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

The “Bigfoot in Ohio?” Event

Sasquatch Chronicles

By Lindsey O'Brien, The News-Herald Alan Megargle and Jesse Morgan read off Bigfoot sighting testimonies to an over 100-person audience at the ..

Strange Bigfoot Statues Found In Mexico (Video)

Before It's News

In 1944, strange statues were discovered at an archaeological site in Acambaro, Mexico of biped ape like creatures, some of them holding men, ...

Bigfoot speech and Vocalizations Recorded on camera

HardwareZone.com.sg

Big foot is known to have easy-to-spot body size and till date no confirmed video or photo... And now you tell me someone captured its voice?

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.

HE'S SO POSITIVE...IT'S THE GONZO BLOG WASSNAME

The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday

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I had several emails and a letter yesterday asking me about my new(ish) novel, The Song of Panne. It is, by the way if you will forgive my shameless self promotion available here: http://tinyurl.com/hxsloed or from http://tinyurl.com/hv2vtzl if you want me to autograph it.

I was actually quite surprised by this, because I didn't think that anyone apart from Steve Rider had read it. However, all of these communications (four I believe, in total) wanted to know whether my tale is true or not. I had exactly the same happen when Nick Redfern published his book back in 2002. But 'Three Men Seeking Monsters' was about me, him and Richard Freeman drinking our way around the UK in a Scooby Doo style bus and was vaguely believable. This is a book about a psychotic elephant-headed God in a wheelchair, living with a band of Mansonlike runaway girls in a redoubt in the deep woods on the Devon/Cornwall border. It is nastier than Nick's book with more sex, violence and benefit fraud.

But is it true? Even Pontius Pilate asked "What is truth?"

All the characters are either real people, or based on real people. Most of what I said happened did happen. A few bits I completely made up. Do you honestly think I am going to spoil the fun by revealing which?

The Publisher's blurb reads: "A tired, crippled man in late middle age gets an unexpected visitor from his less then salubrious past. With him is something out of the pages of Greek mythology. The author finds himself deep in an arcane tangle of lies, half-truths and impossibilities. Against his better judgement, he has no option but to act. If this is a story, it's a bloody good one. If this is truth then the world you know is about to change forever."

Make me happy, buy the book. It is only seven quid...

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_3.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Patrick Moraz - "Child...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/the-gonzo-track-of-day-patrick-moraz.html

RICK WAKEMAN COVERS BOWIE CLASSICS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/rick-wakeman-covers-bowie-classics.html

Zappa Lost Broadcast DVD US review

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/zappa-lost-broadcast-dvd-us-review.html

WILD MAN FISCHER

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/wild-man-fischer.html

Gonzo Weekly #167

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This issue features:

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)

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

Issue 165 (David Bowie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo165.html

Issue 164 (Free Festivals)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo164.html

Issue 163 (Lemmy)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo163.html

Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-161-21-yer-festive-double-issue.html

Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo160.html

Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo159.html

Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo158.html

Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo157.html

Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo156.html

Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo155.html

Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo154.html

Issue 153 (Martin Barre)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo153.html

Issue 152 (4th Eden)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo152.html

Issue 151 (Corky Laing)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo151.html

Issue 150 (Roger Dean)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo150.html

Issue 149 (Tony Palmer in Space)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo149.html

Issue 148 (Wally Hope)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo148.html

Issue 147 (Thom the World Poet cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo147.html

Issue 146 (Bee and Flower cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo146.html

Issue 145 (Dave Brock cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo145.html

Issue 144 (Percy Jones cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo144.html

Issue 143 (Billy Sherwood cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo143.html

Issue 142 (Daevid Allen and Spirits Burning cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo142.html

Issue 141 (Rick Wakeman cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo141.html

Issue 140 (Jaki Windmill cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo140.html

Issue 139 (Raz cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo139.html

Issue 138 (Galahad cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo138.html

Issue 137 (Chris Squire cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo137.html

Issue 136 (Neil Nixon cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo136.html

Issue 135 (FNP cover)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo135.html

You can download the magazine in pdf form HERE:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN 1815 - The world's first commercial cheese factory was established in Switzerland.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Spider Shows Off His Big Paddle to Woo Mates

Harvest mice return to village where species was f...

Degraded habitat alters frog microbiomes – via Her...

Freshwater turtle (Mauremys rivulata) crosses the ...

11th Duke of Bedford blamed for unstoppable gr

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)