Friday, April 22, 2016
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
From CFZ-USA:
- WILD MAN OF WINBERRY
- DO THESE CRYPTIDS EXIST?
- PTERODACTYLS IN AFRICA
- WERE DINOSAURS DOOMED?
- HUMAN SKULLS ON MARS?
- MYSTERIES OF SCIENCE
- CHINESE WILDMAN
- DOES BIGFOOT PLAY MIND GAMES?
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- UFOs AT SPACE STATION
- STRANGE FIGURE IN MALAYSIAN SCHOOL
- LARGE BAT-LIKE CREATURE
- BIGFOOT - SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- EARLY BIGFOOT SIGHTING
- CADBOROSAURUS - NOT YET PROVEN
- CRYPTOZOOLOGY ZOO
- BIGFOOT HEAD?
- HY BRASIL AND GIANT RABBITS
- DOLPHIN LANGUAGE (see picture above)
- RABIES ALERT
- RETURN OF BUGS BUNNY
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- SEA SERPENTS OF WISCONSIN
- QUEST FOR CHAMP
- BIRDS AND DINOSAURS
- FEN TIGER NEAR CAMBRIDGE
- MYSTERY CAT IN ILLINOIS
- HUNTER's BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER
- WAS BIGFOOT IN LONDON?
- BIGFOOT SIGHTING IN ALABAMA
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)
Loch Ness Monster's Stand-in
Found
In this age of selfies, it's tough to be the Loch Ness
Monster. Show yourself to a few tourists, and they never get a good shot.
Fortunately, someone did ...
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This day in history, April 21
1934: Daily Mail publishes amateur photo allegedly
showing Loch Ness Monster. (It is eventually revealed to be a hoax).
1956: "Heartbreak Hotel" ...
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CRYPTOLINK: Thylacines in the news
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.
Benjamin's ghost brought to life
The Joan's 2016 Brave New Work season opener tells the
story of the mythical thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), declared extinct in
1986. Saturday's ...
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Tasmanian tiger tale a gripping
journey
They Saw A Thylacine tells the stories of Alison
Reid (played by Justine Campbell) – the daughter of the last curator at
Beaumaris Zoo and Beatrice ...
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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.
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
Bigfoot Sighting Had Man 'Absolutely Terrified'
A
new Bigfoot video released by the Paranormal Review is interesting
because it provides a full breakdown of the Bigfoot sighting.
Unfortunately, the ...
The
REAL Reason Bigfoot Hasn't Been Discovered
The
REAL Reason Bigfoot Hasn't Been Discovered posted by Utah Sasquatch.
Share on Facebook. Wednesday, April 20, 2016. via YouTube Capture ...
Bigfoot book by 10-year-old raises
funds for Mellowpuff Charitable Trust
The 10-year-old from New Plymouth has just released a
book, Bigfoot: A Guide To Going Bigfooting, and $1 from every copy sold
goes towards the ...
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SAYS GOODBYE TO POPPY
The Gonzo Daily - Friday/Saturday
And so a weird and unsettling week lurches, eventually (I hope) to its
climax. Late this afternoon my darling elder stepdaughter Shoshannah took a
break from her studies to go to the shop for a chocolate sortie. A few minutes
later she returned, and she found Poppy McGregor, aka The Brown Cat, a few
months short of her seventeenth birthday in obvious pain. It appears that she
had been hit by a car.
Shosh, who, as I know that many of you are aware, is a vet (which for our
chums across the pond means that she works as an animal doctor, not that she saw
military service in Vietnam) and saw immediately that there was nothing that
could be done, so she and Corinna took her to the vet in Stratton to be put to
sleep.
The is a line in my favourite book A Stranger in a Strange Land by catlover
Robert Heinlein in which the main protagonist (Michael Valentine Smith) asked
the secondary protagonist (Jubal Harshaw) about the biological reason for grief.
I had been planning to write about this following Prince’s death yesterday. I
had been planning to muse on why the death of a bloke half a world away, who I
had never met, with whom I had never communicated, and whom - I am sure - didn’t
know that I exist, mattered to me. Then today came the death of a small brown
furry “person”who tolerated my presence on occasion, but sometimes hissed at me
and once or twice even bit me. And my heart is very heavy, my world will never
be the same again, and I am no further answering the Man from Mars’
question.
Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tears
Shed o'er her, beloved for years?
Who shall say the dark dismay
Which her dying caused that day?
Come, ye Muses, one and all,
Come obedient to my call.
Come and mourn, with tuneful breath,
Each one for a separate death;
And while you in numbers sigh,
I will sing her elegy.
Christina Rossetti
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Sunshine Day - OSIBIS...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Wild Man Fischer An Evening With Wild Man Fischer
THOSE WE HAVE LOST: Prince
COMING THIS WEEKEND
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore: if
you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy my single:
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
Gonzo Magazine #178
Viv Stanshall, Mike Livesley, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Fred Frith,
Armando Gallo, French-Frith-Kaiser-Thompson, Ra ra riot, Arthur Brown, C S
Lewis, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Astor Piazzolla, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That
Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out!
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End is on the front cover, there is an interview
with Mike Livesley who is the mastermind of the latest revival inside, together
with Alan's notstalgic look at the original mastermind, Viv Stanshall. Doug
raves about Ra Ra Riot, whilst John goes to see Arthur Brown. Jon goes all South
American whilst Alan muses on French-Frith-Kaiser-Thompson, and interviews the
legendary Fred Frith. We send legendary rock and roll photojournalist Armando
Gallo to a desert island, review a book about C S Lewis, and there are radio
shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, as well as the return of Friday Night
Progressive, the latest installment of the saga of Xtul, and columns from all
sorts of folk including Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible
Corinna who this week has Elvis in her sights (uh huh huh). 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:
Alfredo Zitarrosa, Astor Piazzolla, The Who, Ringo Starr, Bruce
Springsteen, Alan Dearling, Tony Hawk, Led Zeppelin, John Ellis, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Robbie Brennan, Anthony
Schmaltz "Tony" Conrad, Earl Solomon Burroughs (Jack Hammer), Captain Beefheart,
Brand X, Osibisa, Pink Fairies, Gram Parson's The International Submarine Band,
Gib Guilbeau, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Sons of Fred, Percy Jones, Norman Wisdom
featuring Rick Wakeman, Viv Stanshall, Michael Livesley, Ra Ra Riot, French
Frith Kaiser Thompson, Roy Weard, John Brodie-Good, Arthur Brown, Mr Biffo,
Armando Gallo, Hawkwind, Xtul, Walter Hooper, C S Lewis, George Michael, Sex
Pistols, Beethoven, Johnny Rotten, Neil Nixon, Paul Buchanan, Folkstone
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 177 (David Gilmour)
Issue 176 (Joey Molland and The Raz Band)
Issue 175 (Larry Sanders)
Issue 174 (Keith Emerson)
Issue 173 (Pink Fairies action figures)
Issue 172 (4th Eden)
Issue 171 (Keith Levene)
Issue 170 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 169 (Wildman Fischer)
Issue 168 (Wakeman/Bowie)
Issue 167 (Paul Kantner)
Issue 166 (Spirits Burning)
Issue 165 (David Bowie)
Issue 164 (Free Festivals)
Issue 163 (Lemmy)
Issue 161-2 (The Christmas Double Feature)
Issue 160 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 159 (Jon Anderson and Matt Malley)
Issue 158 (Billy Sherwood)
Issue 157 (Drones for Daevid)
Issue 156 (Rick and Emmie)
Issue 155 (Pink Fairies)
Issue 154 (Steve Ignorant)
Issue 153 (Martin Barre)
Issue 152 (4th Eden)
All issues from #70 can be downloaded at www.gonzoweekly.com if you prefer.
If you have problems downloading, just email me
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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 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?
CFZ IN THE NEWS
It had been considered extinct for nearly 80 years, but the Tasmanian tiger has been declared alive and kicking by an intrepid group of British naturalists.
A team of investigators from the Centre for Fortean Zoology, which operates from a small farmhouse in north Devon, is currently in Tasmania hunting down clues to prove the thylacine, commonly known as the Tassie tiger, still exists.
The group claims to have gathered compelling evidence of the thylacine’s presence in remote parts of Tasmania’s north-west, despite the last known animal dying in Hobart Zoo on 7 September 1936.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology said it has talked to several “highly credible” witnesses of the thylacine and has found animal faeces that could belong to the beast. The droppings have been preserved in alcohol and are being sent awayfor DNA analysis.
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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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