Wednesday, September 06, 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.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE FUN FUN FUN NOW THEY'VE TAKEN THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN AWAY
The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
Somos memorias de lobos que rasgam a pele
Lobos que foram homens
e o tornarao a ser...
They awake for flesh
Choose pain as a path
Refuse a light
To blind you and me
Full Moon Madness
We are as one and congregate
Full Moon Madness
By the way, forgive me for banging on about this but on a personal level I
would be very grateful if you could spread the word about our rebooted monthly
webTV series after a break 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.
But now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: The Sensational Alex H...
RICK WAKEMAN INTERVIEW
Bruford - The Boxed Set Bill Bruford's Introductio...
YES IN THE NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Gonzo Weekly #250
THE RITES OF MUMUMIFICATION ISSUE
The events organised by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu in Liverpool last
week: The cultural event of the decade? Or something properly important? Jon
interviews Tony Palmer about his legendary film of Tangerine Dream, Alan goes to
the Magic Gathering in Lithuania, Richard muses on handshakes, and Biffo talks
about sexist Yugoslav computer magazines - no we haven’t made that one up! In
fact we never make any of it up.
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Strange Fruit, but Friday
Night Progressive is taking a week off. 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 who have blown a figurative fuse (OK, nothing to do with small
marsupials who have got cross for some reason, 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, Captain Beefheart, Pink Floyd, Coldplay,
Chester Bennington, David Bowie, ZZ Top, Katie Hopkins, Strange Fruit, Mack
Maloney's Mystery Hour, Melissa Cecelia Ewen Bell, William Tobe Hooper, Wilson
das Neves, Ronald Harry "Skip" Prokop, Mohammed Abdul Jabbar, L N Shastri,
Lawrence Joseph Elgart, Mary Hopkin, Man, Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton and Jon
Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten, Tony Palmer, Tangerine
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Read the previous few issues of Gonzo Weekly:
Issue 249 (Bill Bruford)
Issue 248 (The Selecter)
Issue 247 (Don Airey)
Issue 246 (Steve Hackett)
Issue 244-5 (Summer Special)
Issue 243 (Galahad)
Issue 242 (Steve Miller Band)
Issue 241 (Carol Hodge and Steve Ignorant)
Issue 240 (Midsummer Madness)
Issue 239 (Miss Peach)
Issue 238 (Hawkwind)
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)
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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 58 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?
TODAY'S BIG CAT NEWS
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: After a four-year wait, Mukundara Hills ...
VIDEO: Tiger cub part of illicit flow of exotic an...
VIDEO: Security Camera Catches Mountain Lion Walki...
NEWSLINK: Tourist safaris disturb Kabini’s wildlif...
THYLACINES IN THE NEWS
THE TASMANIAN TIGER
The Thylacine looked like a large, long dog with
stripes and a long stiff tail. The last known Thylacine died in Hobart
Zoo in 1936. Despite hundreds of ...
ANOTHER NEWS STORY
MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Snake charmers in Hong Kong
I stumbled across these words on the Gwulo.com Hong
Kong history web site in a post by Kirstin Moritz on November 8th 2011 titled
`1970s Stanley Village: Photos and memories`. I was very surprised to find out
that snake charming takes place outside of India,in this case in Stanley
Village,Hong Kong:
" Then
on one memorable occasion, a snake charmer came to the market about 8 in the
morning on a gray winter day with his cobras. He made them dance and then in
front of the whole crowd he slaughtered them all, draining the blood and selling
it in cups to the little old ladies and men in black for $80 HK a cup. Then he
chopped the snakes into pieces, wrapped the pieces in newspaper, and sold them,
leaving only the blood stains on the concrete of the market place to suggest the
violence of the morning."
Apparently
snake charming originated in Egypt and occurs in China
Richard
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.
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- Canary in a coal mine: Survey captures global pict...
- BEER CREATED FOR ENDANGERED BIRD
- Bahamian songbirds disappeared during last glacial...
- Rare ferruginous hawk spotted
- Rare birds have been mysteriously dying and a roya...
- Rare birds of prey breed at Titchfield reserve for...
- Rare albino pigeons are sighted in Minnetonka
THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
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NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1189 - England's King Richard I was crowned in Westminster.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
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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.