Wednesday, May 18, 2016
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.
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.
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.
RADIO LINK: Leopard ranges smaller than believed
NEWSLINK: Leopard Deaths Or Forest Department's Ap...
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
Bigfoot
Hunting In Montana
Bigfoot
may be among us - and with the slew of bigfoot sightings and video we
find ourselves joining Michael Cook, Brian Sullivan, Ed Brown, and ...
Ohio
Bigfoot Conference Slideshow 2016
Now
that Henry May is back from the Ohio Bigfoot Conference, he has decided
to put together a slideshow of the weekend's events. And from the ...
Hikers
Narrowly Escape A Bigfoot Attack (Video)
A
story from 1989, passed along to bigfoot author Will Jevning about a
group of hikers who narrowly escaped an attack by bigfoot.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN SINGS HAPPILY TO HIMSELF
The Gonzo Daily - Wednesday
And so the saga continues. The car failed its MOT quite spectacularly on
Monday, but we have just bought a replacement. Graham's and my long term
strategy of buying cheap heaps and running them into the ground continues. The
new car is the same as the one Max used to own in which we drove half way across
Ireland with Doc Shiels.So fingers crossed, eh?
I would like to remind everyone about this year's Weird Weekend. Ticket
sales are slow, despite it being the best lineup ever. So come on boys and
girls, check out www.weirdweekend.org. You know it makes sense.
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Clepsydra Travel of Dr...
Joey Molland Interview at Beatle Fest L.A 2014
Eric Burdon & The Animals - River Deep Mountain Hi...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Frank Zappa interview 1974
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:
buy the CFZ 2016 Yearbook:
Gonzo Magazine #182
Wally, Rick Wakeman, Goblin, Grateful Dead, KLF, Ve, Gerald Durrell, Bill
Drummond, Canterbury Sans Frontières, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Dogwatch, That
Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better look out! This issue is
dedicated to Dave McMann who died on Friday morning. Rest in peace you mad old
bugger.
Wally was/is one of those bands that really should have made it, but
despite support from Bob Harris and Rick Wakeman, they didn’t. In this issue we
talk to Stuart Rhodes, the author of a
retrospective coffee table book about the band. John looks at how the world
has changed in the past four decades, Alan reviews a book on American
psychedelia, we talk to Ve, and discuss Bill Drummond, and Biffo makes fart
jokes about American politicians. It doesn’t get much better than this! And
there are radio shows from Strange Fruit and Mack Maloney, Friday Night
Progressive, and we send the presenter of Canterbury Sans Frontières to a desert
island. We also have 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. 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:
Gerald Durrell, Arthur Lee, Love, Joe Bonamassa, Liz Lenten, Auburn, Ozzy
and Sharon Obsourne, Sex Gang Children, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Isao Tomita, Peter Behrens, Joe Temperley, John Stabb, The Beatles, Osibisa,
Billy Cobham, Wayne Kramer at the Pink Fairies, Al Stewart, The RAZ Band, The
Flying Burrito Bros, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Rick Wakeman, Wally, Stuart Rhodes,
Suspiria, Goblin, Alan Dearling, Ve, Roy Weard, John Brodie-Good, Mr Biffo,
Matthew Watkins, Hawkwind, Xtul, Bill Drummond, The Who, Elvis, Genesis, Neil
Nixon, Burzum, Les Batards du Nord
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 181 (Beatles)
Issue 180 (Beltane)
Issue 179 (Gregg Kofi Brown)
Issue 178 (Viv Stanshall)
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)
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:
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: Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1302 - The weaver Peter de Coningk led a massacre of the Flemish oligarchs.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Poaching of old forest elephant matriarchs threate...
Riverbed discovery places humans in the southeast ...
28% of US bees wiped out this winter, suggesting b...
Wolves are not 'egalitarians' when it comes to pla...
Ministers reject plan for 'emergency' use of banne...
Genes that encourage same-sex mating in beetles he...
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)
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