Sunday, July 24, 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.
- sex in the city: Peregrine falcons in Chicago don'...
- Ornithologist captures rare Amur Falcon in Bastar
- Rare terns spotted around Penghu
THE GONZO HOPPING HEN, HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT AND HE DOESN'T KNOW WHEN
The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
And for no real reason Sunday's notifications are done in rhyme
Andy and Nursey and Charlotte as well
are coming round soon with a greeting
but its not just a social call
its the second full Weird Weekend meeting
cos there's only four weeks left to go
and things are getting hectic
so come on buy your tickets fast
for three days most eclectic
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Mother Of Darkness
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit #172
Shoreworld: The Raz Band – The Best Of Raz
Gonzo Weekly #192
Gonzo Magazine #192
What happens when the keyboard player from Yes shares a stage with the
guitarist from Queen? Doug tells you all about it. Meanwhile, Alan is at the
Edinburgh Blues and Jazz festival, our old mate Andy Roberts takes some acid
(and Jon writes about it as well as asking whether the world of Narnia is
sexist?) What other magazine gives you all this for free?
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Canterbury Sans
Frontières, 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 thrilling and slightly disturbing episode of Xtul. 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:
Steve Hillage, Keith Richards, The Beatles, Alan White, Bono, Ozzy and
Sharon Osbourne, Elton John, Queen, Boruch Alan Bermowitz (Alan Vega), Erik
Petersen, Les Stocker, Bonnie Jean Brown, Rick Wakeman, Arthur Brown, The
Golliwogs, James Young, Cymbalic Encounters, Richard Brautigan, Brian May,
English Rock Ensemble, Alan Dearling, Ten String Symphony, Hillfolk Noir, Mr
Sipp, Rad Trads, Jan Garbarek Group, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Andy
Roberts, Roy Wood, The Eagles, Crosby, Still & Nash, The Monkees, Neil
Nixon, The Cardboard Lung
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 191 (Karnataka)
Issue 190 (Erik Norlander)
Issue 189 (Rick Wakeman at the O2)
Issue 187/8 (Yer holiday special)
Issue 186 (Beatles)
Issue 185 (Judge Smith)
Issue 184 (Mick Abrahams)
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!
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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
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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
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 - Sunday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1847 - Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrived in the valley of the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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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)