Monday, June 06, 2016
DAVEY CURTIS: What on earth is this?
Jon what made this? A bouncing snail? A slug on a space hopper?
CRYPTOLINK: Witness Claims to Have Spotted a Thylacine
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Witness Claims to Have Spotted a Thylacine
Witness Claims to Have Spotted a Thylacine
This
witness claims to have seen a Tasmanian Tiger on the side of the road. And she
isn't the only one.
CRYPTOLINK: Legendary sea serpent returns to Farm Pond
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Martha's
Vineyard Times
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Legendary sea serpent returns to
Farm Pond
Late in May each year, when the southwest breezes start
to warm our waters, creating an eerie chartreuse mist over Farm Pond in Oak
Bluffs — that ...
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.
- Is this why the rare hen harrier is facing 'extinc...
- Eurasian tree sparrow makes unusual visit to North...
- A kiwi is born! Rare flightless New Zealand bird h...
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.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN TRIES TO KEEP IT TOGETHER
The Gonzo Daily - Monday
I am doing my best to keep my mind off the subject of my blasted DLA
assessment. The results could be here any day now, so each day my heart is
figuratively in my mouth as the postman arrives. However, today all that came
was a copy of Andy Roberts' new bppk 'ACID DROPS: Adventures in Psychedelia',
which I am very much looking forward to reading. It is a beautiful, calm, hot
summer's day, but I cannot help but fell that something is in the air. There are
far less butterflies than usual, and even the birds are strangely quiet. It
feels like one of the snapshots they show of Brits lazing on the beach in the
summer of 1939. Something is happening, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr
Downes?
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
buy tickets to the Weird Weekend:
Gram Parsons - On WBCN Radio Show
Barbara Dickson interview - January 2008
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Sex Gang Children "D...
Captain Beefheart - American Bandstand Phone Inter...
Gonzo Magazine #185
Judge Smith, The Cure, Whole Earth Catalog, William Shakespeare, The
Beatles, Dead Fred, Alternative London, The Preacher, Garth Ennis, Mr Biffo, Roy
Weard, Dogwatch, That Legendary Wooden Lion, Hawkwind, and Yes fans had better
look out!
And once again we have another monumental groovefest for you all, bringing
you up to date with Judge Smith's lost prog rock masterpiece, sending Dead Fred
to a desert island, while Doug goes to see The Cure, Alan goes to watch The
Taming of the Shrew in Shakespeare's own theatre, Jon drools over Beatles
guitars and is surprisingly kind about the pilot episode of The Preacher, and
alongside all of this John B-G remembers Alternative London and the Whole Earth
Catalog, And Biffo? He unearths some particularly disturbing examples of Mutant
Turtle cosplay. This issue goes out with love to Dr Demitrius who died this
week.
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, and Mack Maloney, and Friday
Night Progressive takes a week off because of Vickistock which is described in
words and pictures. 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 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:
Preacher, Songs from the Black Meadow, Crass, Iona, Dave Bainbridge, Sally
Minnear, Roger Daltrey, Quadrophenia, Paul McCartney, Oasis, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Carla Lane, Harambe, Alan
Wise, Marshall "Rock" Jones, Thomas Fekete, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown's Kingdom
Come, Brand X, Third Ear Band, Captain Beefheart, Jim Jones, Gram Parsons, Mick
Abrahams, Barbara Dickson, Judge Smith, The Cure, Alan Dearling, Taming of the
Shrew, Roy Weard, John Brodie-Good, Mr Biffo, Xtul, Dead Fred, The Beatles,
Rolling Stones, Adam Ant, Bob Dylan, Joy Division, Neil Nixon, Cabaret
Voltaire
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
Issue 183 (Daevid Allen)
Issue 182 (Wally)
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
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raining. See you tomorrow...
* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine
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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
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* We should probably mention here, that some of our posts are links to
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responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites. Honest
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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?
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
NH
Voice
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Bigfoot enthusiasts deny Utah Man's
claims of finding well-preserved skull of ape-like species
A man from Utah has claimed that he has found a
well-preserved skull of Bigfoot. Todd May from Ogden, Utah came across
the large 75-pound object ...
WBRZ
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He's out there! Bigfoot hunters
gather in Mississippi
Don McDonald, from the Gulf Coast Bigfoot research
organization, hosted the event. He told WDAM television that he has spent 20
years trying to track ...
fox6now.com
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Several people in small town in North
Carolina claiming to have seen 'Bigfoot:' “Never seen ...
LITTLETON, North Carolina — Several people in the small
North Carolina town of Littleton are claiming to have seen what some are calling
“Bigfoot.”.
Bigfoot
Enthusiast Describes His Recent Sasquatch Sighting (Video)
This
is my recollection of a recent sasquatch encounter where I was lucky enough to
witness one running very close to me. I startled it with my ...
Myakka
River State Park Skunk Ape Expedition
Tim
Fasano is no stranger to swamps and thick woods. The guy spends more time in the
bush looking for Skunk Apes, than just about anyone
Multiple 'Bigfoot' sightings in
small North Carolina town
LITTLETON, N.C. – Several people in a small North
Carolina town are claiming to have seen what some are calling “Bigfoot.”
WNCN reported that ...
Bigfoot?
US Wildlife Officials Post Photo of Discovered Species
Is
this “Bigfoot”? The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service have posted a
photograph of a mystery species that has been “discovered”on Montana's Bob ...
NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Monday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1674 - Sivaji crowned himself King of India.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Cultural experiences shape orca whale evolution
Harambe the Gorilla Put Zoo in Lose-Lose Situation...
Kodiak bears track salmon runs in Alaska
Is ‘Eve the sea monster’ a new plesiosaur species?...
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)