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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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.
- In Search of the Elusive Pink-Headed Duck
- Donegal people asked to report sightings of rare b...
- Rare Shrike found in Anglesey and Cattle Egrets ne...
- Rare rose-coloured starling spotted in Ipswich bac...
- UK first as rare black-winged stilts choose Welney...
- Eagle-eyed North-east lifeboat crew swoops in to s...
- So just who is the Sandringham bird murderer? Spat...
- Mystery shrouds death of 37 birds near Gondia
- Migratory birds arriving late to breeding grounds
- 99 Million-Year-Old Baby Bird Trapped in Amber Dis...
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
Is this BIGFOOT? 'Dangerous giant ape' snapped lurking in US woodland
Betteridge's
Law. No. June 13, 2017. Is this BIGFOOT? 'Dangerous giant ape' snapped
lurking in US woodland.
Evidence
that Bigfoot is real
In
1979, Jada and her husband wanted to leave the city and live on a farm in the
Appalachian Mountains where they can raise their two children, grow ...
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN HAS CRAVINGS FOR WATERMELON. AND NO THAT IS NOT A EUPHEMISM.
The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
We are finally jumping with both feet into the 21st Century. Tomorrow a
flat screen smart TV thingy is being delivered. This means that my Hi Fi, the
old telly and a family of Japanese fire bellied newts have had to be rearranged,
and the house is more like a middle European transit camp than ever. Jarvis
Cocker has recently collaborated with Chilly Gonzales for an extraordinary
album, which - I am afraid - knocks both of Cocker's solo albums to date
(especially the second one) into a cocked hat. To my ears this is the best
record he has made since 'This is Hardcore' in 1998, and possibly before. This
is a truly astounding record and proves that Cocker (despite a lot of
suggestions to the contrary) is still a lyricist and performer par excellence.
Well done that man.
And now, here is the news:
YES CRITIQUED
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Melting Euphoria - Ley...
RICK SPRINGFIELD IN THE NEWS
GONZO PEOPLE: Thom Woodruff
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Magazine #238
THE WHITE PUNKS ON HOPE ISSUE
We talk to Krautrock legend Lutz Graf-Ulbrich about his work with Nico and
Agitation Free, Jon goes off on a weird trip with the Justified Ancients of Mu
Mu, Alan critiques Forest Swords, Roy Weard and all sorts of democracy-related
japes..
And listen up Kiddies: It’s all free!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Fruit, 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
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:
VE, The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, KLF, Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Tir
Na Nog, Prince, Elton John, Marillion, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Noel
Gallagher, Pete Townshend, Gogol Bordello, Roger Waters, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Aamir Zaki, Peter Sallis, OBE,
Educated Rapper (Jeffrey Campbell), Andrew "Andy" Cunningham, Barbara Alexandra
"Sandra" Reemer, Vincent Paul Garbutt, Ya Kwanza, Mary Hopkin, Steve Howe,
Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, Lütz Ulbrich, Alan Dearling, Forest Swords (Matthew
Barnes), Bjork, Jeremy Smith, Brinsley Schwarz, Real Music Club, Roy Weard,
Sendelica, Kev Rowland, Silver Hunter, Spoil Engine, Starsick System, That Rock
Guy, Thoughts of Ionesco, Thus Defiled, Tony Klinger, Hawkwind, Gerald Durrell,
Gorillaz, Albert Collins, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Joy
Division, New Order, Oasis, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Deep Purple
Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 237 (Hawkwind)
Issue 236 (Manchester)
Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)
Issue 234 (Al Atkins)
Issue 233 (Richard Strange)
Issue 232 (Roy Weard)
Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)
Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)
Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)
Issue 227 (Chuck Berry)
Issue 225-6 (The Rites of Spring)
Issue 224 (Hibernal)
Issue 223 (Beatles)
Issue 222 (Cruise to the Edge)
Issue 221 (Deke Leonard)
Issue 220 (Larry Wallis)
Issue 219 (Martin Stone)
Issue 218 (Mark Reiser tribute)
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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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
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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 57 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile
orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, and two half grown 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 Archie and the Cats?
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1381 Richard II in England meets leaders of Peasants' Revolt on Blackheath. The Tower of London is stormed by rebels who enter without resistance
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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Import Restriction on Salamanders in Canada - via ...
Turtle disaster avoided with roadkill rescue
Sea stars filmed hunting squid and squabbling over...
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.)