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Sunday, August 07, 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.
- These Endangered Birds Have Been Mostly Ignored in...
- Rare Purple Swamp Hen brings flocks to RSPB Minsme...
- Scientists Discover New Virus That Cause Beak Defo...
THE HO HO HEN
The Gonzo Daily - Sunday
And for no real reason Sunday's notifications are done in rhyme
Back in 1998
I paid eight quid for a game called 'Doom'
and Graham and I quickly got obsessed
and connected the computer in my room
for the one in his and thus spent hours
shooting each other with virtual guns
now after many years have passed,
he's found out how we can repeat this fun
and so while I should be worrying
about the forthcoming Weird Weekend
I'm actually running round a ruined fort,
trying to kill my dearest friend.
Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Belgium TV
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Westminster Abbey - O...
PLAYLIST: Strange Fruit 174 - Happy Sad
GONZO WEEKLY #194
Gonzo Magazine #194
We interview the lovely Liz Lenten from Auburn, Doug goes to see Adele,
John goes to Alaska to watch whales and goes to see the Crazy World of Arthur
Brown in the meantime. Alan goes to Kozfest, Jeremy goes to see Blue Oyster
Cult, Jon muses on unreleased Pink Floyd and reviews a book by Bill Drummond.
Truly this is a massively groovy magazine!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, 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:
Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, RAZ Band, Viv
Stanshall, biG GRunt, Ringo Starr, U2, Elton John, Peter Hook, Joy Division,
Ozzy Osbourne, Jack Osbourne, AC/DC, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Elliot Teichberg (Elliott Tiber), Leslie Hulme (Ken
Barrie), The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Liz Lenten, Auburn, Adele,
Alan Dearling, Kozfest, The Trolleymen, Tea Project, Fijian, Mike Howlett, Cary
Grace, Phaselock, Sendelica, Hawklords, Sacred Geometry Band, Gong, John
Brodie-Good, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Jeremy Smith, Blue Oyster Cult, Mr
Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Bill Drummond, Spectrum, It Flew Away, Capt.
Matchbox & Langford Lever, Jack White, The Grateful Dead, Neil Nixon, Dame
Barbara Cartland
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
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!
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?
Gonzo Weekly #194
Gonzo Magazine #194
We interview the lovely Liz Lenten from Auburn, Doug goes to see Adele,
John goes to Alaska to watch whales and goes to see the Crazy World of Arthur
Brown in the meantime. Alan goes to Kozfest, Jeremy goes to see Blue Oyster
Cult, Jon muses on unreleased Pink Floyd and reviews a book by Bill Drummond.
Truly this is a massively groovy magazine!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, 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:
Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, RAZ Band, Viv
Stanshall, biG GRunt, Ringo Starr, U2, Elton John, Peter Hook, Joy Division,
Ozzy Osbourne, Jack Osbourne, AC/DC, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive,
Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Elliot Teichberg (Elliott Tiber), Leslie Hulme (Ken
Barrie), The Boomtown Rats, Karnataka, Rick Wakeman, Liz Lenten, Auburn, Adele,
Alan Dearling, Kozfest, The Trolleymen, Tea Project, Fijian, Mike Howlett, Cary
Grace, Phaselock, Sendelica, Hawklords, Sacred Geometry Band, Gong, John
Brodie-Good, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Jeremy Smith, Blue Oyster Cult, Mr
Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, Xtul, Bill Drummond, Spectrum, It Flew Away, Capt.
Matchbox & Langford Lever, Jack White, The Grateful Dead, Neil Nixon, Dame
Barbara Cartland
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 193 (Genre Peak)
Issue 192 (Rick Wakeman and Brian May)
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!
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.
ANDREW MAY: Words from the Wild Frontier
From Nick Redfern's World of Whatever:
From CFZ-USA:
- WHAT WAS THE CRAWFORDSVILLE MONSTER?
- IS BIGFOOT AGGRESSIVE?
- BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS IN NORTH CAROLINA
- BIGFOOT IN SILVERTON
- CRYPTIDS OF SOUTH AMERICA
- SEX WITH BIGFOOT
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- INDIAN BIGFOOT NAMES
- ARAGANAQITA
- MAGIC BIRD
- BIGFOOT - PRETERNATURAL CREATURE?
- TWO NEW ANT SPECIES
- WAS THIS A BIGFOOT WARNING?
- FORTEAN STOATS
- WHAT ARE THE TREE PEOPLE?
- SEARCH FOR BIGFOOT
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- DOGMAN SIGHTINGS IN MICHIGAN
- PILOU - AN UNKNOWN DORMOUSE
- FROGMEN: SOME ACCOUNTS
- MYSTERY CLOWN IN GREEN BAY (WISCONSIN)
- BLACK PANTHERS IN TEXAS
- JERSEY DEVIL EPISODE
- SKUNK APE SOUGHT IN FLORIDA
- MEDIA AND ZEITOUN
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
- DANGER TO BULLDOGS
- REPTILIANS DEFINED
- WEIRD EXPERIENCES OF SENTRIES
- STRANGE ANIMALS OF LAKE LA PLATA
- BIGFOOT SIGHTING......
- BUSHMAN ENCOUNTER IN CANADA
- NEW SHUKER BOOK ON NESSIE
- DID THIRST KILL LAST MAMMOTHS? (see picture above)
- RABBIT-RAT OR UNKNOWN SPECIES?
- WOLFMEN AND BIGFOOT
- ON THIS DAY IN WEIRD
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Sunday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1947 - The balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, which had carried a six-man crew 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean, crashed into a reef in a Polynesian archipelago.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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Huge, once-hated fish now seen as weapon against A...
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Dragon ants are coming: New 'Game of Thrones' spec...
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)