THOM WOODRUFF WRITES.....

FOR JON DOWNES
FOR JON DOWNES RESCUES-
Animals two ,four and no -legged
He animates GONZO and FORTEAN INSTITUTE
as well as keeping a menagerie of exotic people
sustained via music,art,ideas,and divergent experiences..
He respects,admires and shares Progressive Muses-
from YES,HAWKWIND ,GONG,Canterbury Sans Frontiers to Eric Burdon!
and encourages both radio and video and film explorations.
This two-person Renaissance may emanate from a garden shed in Devon
yet is a necessary positive cultural phenomena of expansion
in an age of contraction ,despair and cynicism.
To be born is a beginning-to be re-born in every issue of GONZO BLOG a Blessing
As we are Blessed by that secular wit and huge heart of that UPSIDED -Jon Downes!

NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)

Cleo Rocos came across The Loch Ness Monster while filming new motorhoming TV show

Daily Star

NESSIE is back! A group of celebrities including Lesley Joseph and Cleo Rocos came across The Loch Ness Monster while filming a new reality TV ...

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.

NEWSLINK: Administration for big cats national par...

NEWSLINK: Fife big cat expert dismisses Rosyth sig...

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.

• Jackdaws flap their wings to save energy
• In search of Edwards' pheasant: Almost extinct?

ITS THE DARK AGE FOR THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

http://www.gonzomultimedia.co.uk/about.html

 

I have never got Twitter, but after years of being scathing about it, I think that I have finally begun to realise what it is all about. Yesterday was my birthday and I have reached the venerable age of 58. Dear Thom Woodruff (aka Thom the World Poet) was kind enough to write this for me:

 

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/2017/08/thom-woodruff-writes.html

 

I was (and am) very touched. Thank you Thom. But back to Twitter. Last night, as you probably know Messrs Drummond and Cauty aka The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu returned to out plain of existence. This all happened in Liverpool, but I watched the updates on Twitter, and got carried along by the excitement of the event. And finally - after having had an account for eight ears, and never having used it for anything but to automatically repost links to blog posts - I GET TWITTER!

 

Now, usually when I experience an epiphany, I end up getting mildly obsessed. I wonder whether this will happen on this occasion?

 

And as far as the JAMMs are concerned, I get the feeling that something truly extraordinary is happening up on Merseyside, and that those of us why are following what is happening are helping to assist its reverberations across IdeaSpace. I urge you to read John Higgs' book so that you can get what I mean. This might just be what we have all beenj hoping for. On the other hand it might not. And for the record, Corinna is just laughing at me as I get ever more enthusiastic.

 

On a personal level I would be very grateful if you could spread the word about our rebooted monthly webTV series after a brak of nearly four years. I actually hadn't realised it had been so long, but - then again - my concepts of time and space are fairly abstract at the best of times.

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/and-in-my-day-job.html

 

But now, here is the news:

 

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Justified Ancients...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/the-gonzo-track-of-day-justified.html

BRUFORD'S BOX SET

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/brufords-box-set.html

IAIN MATTHEWS NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/iain-matthews-news_23.html

YES IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/yes-in-news_23.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_23.html

 

Gonzo Weekly #248

THE BY THE TIME WE GOT TO WICKHAM ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

In which Alan goes to the Wickham Festie and raves about The Levellers, The Selecter, Edward II, The Dhol Foundation and more. We remember Oz Magazine, look forward to next week’s revisitation by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, look at what

might well have happened if Syd Barrett had been completely cured, and spend a weekend with Lennon and McCartney.

 

Yup, and 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, C J Stone, Mr Biffo, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses in primordial ooze (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have become time travellers and got stuck in a prehistoric swamp, 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:

 

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Keith Christmas, YES, ARW, Tears for Fears, Prince, Roger Waters, Sinead O'Connor, Neil Young, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Jo Walker-Meador, Kasatka, Benard Ighner, Segun Bucknor, Rick Wakeman, Ashton,  Gardner and Dyke, Third Ear Band, Atomic Rooster, Oz, Richard Neville, Alan Dearling, Wickham festival, Andy Fairweather-Low, Lowriders Band, Levellers, Spooky Men’s Chorale, The Selector, Seth Lakeman, Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin, The Dhol Foundation, Pronghorn, Edward II, Maia, Alan Finlan, Kev Rowland, Karibow, Left Lane Cruiser, Lost World Band, The Midnight Ghost Train, Noothgrush/Corrupted, Pageninetynine, Riverdogs, Seven Spires, Lutz Ulbrich, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Hawkwind, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis, Beatles, Tupac, Michael Jackson, Lemmy, Edward S Dumit

 

Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:

 

Issue 247 (Don Airey)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo247.html

Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo246.html

Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo244-5.html

Issue 243 (Galahad)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo243.html

Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo242.html

Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo241.html

Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo240.html

Issue 239 (Miss Peach)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo239.html

Issue 238 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo238.html

Issue 237 (Hawkwind)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo237.html

Issue 236 (Manchester)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo236.html

Issue 235 (Jon Anderson)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo235.html

Issue 234 (Al Atkins)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo234.html

Issue 233 (Richard Strange)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo233.html

Issue 232 (Roy Weard)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo232.html

Issue 231 (Allan Holdsworth)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo231.html

Issue 230 (Curtis Womack)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo230.html

Issue 229 (Larry Wallis)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo229.html

Issue 228 (Space Pharoahs)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo228.html

 

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:

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/pdf/

 

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 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?

THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG

LIGHTNING MONSTER

MNGWA - MYSTERY FELID

MYSTERY CREATURE OF PENNSYLVANIA

BIGFOOT IN MICHIGAN

STARTLING CLAIM ABOUT HUMAN BRAIN

CRAB AND FISH BEHAVIOR IN ECLIPSE

BIRDS AND ECLIPSE BEHAVIOR

MERMAID OFF NEW HAMPSHIRE

WILL BIGFOOT COME OUT FOR ECLIPSE?

EXPEDIA GUIDE FOR CRYPTID SEEKERS

EARTHLIKE PLANET DISCOVERED

MONSTER OF LAKE COMO

MOTHMAN IN OZ PARK

ECHIDNA - MYTHICAL SNAKE-WOMAN

KAWUK - INDONESIAN CRYPTID

WAS BIGFOOT SHOT?

UNIDENTIFIED HOMINID ON VIDEO

RED LIGHTS IN CHICAGO.

HUNTING FOR BIGFOOT

GROOTSLANG - SERPENT OR EEL

LEGEND OF THE UNICORN

VANCOUVER ISLAND MONSTER

RETURN OF THE THUNDERBIRD

FAIRIES IN HOUSES

DOGGED BY DOGMAN

BIGFOOT SEEN FROM TRAIN

BIGFOOT IN GERMANY

MOTHMAN STILL IN WEST VIRGINIA

BIGFOOT VIDEO

ANIMAL REACTIONS TO ECLIPSE

SKELETON OF UNKNOWN ANIMAL

PINEAPPLE ATTACK!

CFZ TV RETURNS

WILDMEN OF EUROPE

DOGMAN ENCOUNTER, WASHINGTON STATE

PRE-PATTERSON BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS

SLEEPING GIRAFFE

YETI

SOLAR ECLIPSE AND UNUSUAL THEORIES

SPEECH OF THE REPTILIANS

A CURIOUS RING

SCIENTIST HUNTS BIGFOOT

UNKNOWN GIANT SLOTH

CAYUGA LAKE MONSTER

MOTHMAN THEORIES

BIGFOOT IN MISSOURI

DOGMAN IN NEBRASKA

TARASQUE - MIXED CREATURE

WERE THESE BIGFOOT HOWLS?

PTERODACTYL IN INDIA

DENVER MICHAELS INTERVIEW

GIANT TURTLE OF IOWA

SHEEPSQUATCH - BIZARRE CRYPTID

KENTUCKY FAIRIES

HERRINGTON LAKE MONSTER

IS THIS MAN ELVIS?

ARE ALIENS BEHIND CROP CIRCLES?

WHY DO BEAVERS BUILD DAMS?

HALLUCINATIONS IN THE WOODS?

CHICAGO MOTHMAN - ANOTHER SIGHTING

MONKEY MOUNTAIN BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS

BIGFOOT - WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE?

ARE THERE MODERN DINOSAURS?

CREATURES OF FAERIE

SANDY HOOK SEA SERPENT

FOLKLORE OF SMALL ANIMNALS

KAPPA - CREATURE OF JAPAN

BLACK-EYED KIDS - SCARY

MOUNT SHASTA'S BIGFOOT SIGHTINGS

HUNT FOR CHINA'S WILD MAN

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Sasquatch: The Opera review at Summerhall, Edinburgh – 'muddled but oddly hypnotic'

The Stage

Then daughter, Dodder, a paperclip-limbed junkie fed on meth and mayonnaise by her father and kept on a leash, meets the real Bigfoot and she falls ...

South Carolina man witnesses two red 'Bigfoot' creatures

Nexus Newsfeed

PACOLET, S.C. — A man in Spartanburg County claims he saw Bigfoot twice. The man reporting the sighting, Pacolet resident Charles MacDougall, ...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1839 - Hong Kong was taken by the British in a war with China. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Scientists hope to breed Asian ‘unicorns’ – if the...

The color of people's clothing affects lizard esca...

Illegal Reptiles’ importation: Nigerian Federal Go...

Fungal disease poses real threat to W.Va. snake po...

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.