A new species of orang-utan has been discovered in Sumatra. This is the third species of orang-utan now known to exist.
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Thursday, November 02, 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.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS FRAGILE
The Gonzo Daily: Thursday
Yesterday we filmed, today I am magazining. But don't ask me, ask Victor
Starbuck (1867-1935):
They did not know that the moon had shone
All night across my face:
And they marvelled why I wandered alone
Picking up acorns and pebbles of stone
In a solitary place.
How should they know I had dreamed all night
With the moonbeams on my eyes
Of a goddess slender and tall and white
Who walked in a garden of strange delight
In the regions of Paradise?
They wondered why I was rapt and pale,
Haggard and ill at ease;
For they did not know I had watched a sail
Like a shimmering mist where the dream-winds fail
On magical, moon-bright seas.
And they questioned, " Why does he linger there
Where the grass is withered and dead,
With dry leaves tangled among his hair,
And fingers that tremble, and eyes astare?
"He is mad, quite mad," they said.
They could not know of the songs I heard
In the fair Moon-Gardens; nor why
I listened there for a whispered word,
And started at pipe of a sudden bird
Or wept when the wind went by.
Forgive me for always banging on about our webTV show, but it matters a lot
to me, and I would be grateful for as many people as possible to see it, and
spread the tidings of it far and wide:
But now, here is the news:
HAWKWIND NEWS
YES NEWS
A ROUNDUP OF LEONARD COHEN NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Dolly Parton - Jolene ...
Gonzo Weekly #258
THE ALL HALLOWS ISSUE
In a sort of Samhain issue we talk to Neil Nixon and unlock the secrets of
The Devil’s Jukebox, and Biffo launches the Trojan Arse Project. Alan
investigates John and Yoko’s conceptual country of Nutopia, and waxes lyrical
about Phaselock whereas Jon is reading Ransom Riggs and the immortal Robert
Anton Wilson and expanding his own reality tunnels.
Wooooot!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney, Strange Harvest 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 long nosed
potoroos who have done lots of poos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who
have been at the laxatives, 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:
Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Marillion,
Genesis P-orridge, Morrissey, Jonny Greenwood, Ian Gillan, Strange Fruit, Friday
Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Larry Ray (Larry Ray
Piekutowski), Alberto Nelson Sanchez, Scott Mitchell Putesky, Martin Eric Ain
(Martin Stricker), Boris Karl Lennart Lindqvist, Eamonn Campbell, Philip Paul
Miller, Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr., Mary Hopkins, Man, Arthur Brown, Tony Ashton
and Jon Lord, Martin Springett, Third Ear Band, Benjamin Britten, Neil Nixon,
Owen Wilson, Alan Dearling, Nutopia, Kev Rowland, Monster Magnet, Quiet Riot,
Ric Sanders, Rafaelsenra, Quantum Fantay, Carol Albert, Jonathan McGowan, Mr
Biffo, Roy Weard, Bob Hedger and Pascal Vaucel, Hawkwind, Xtul, Martin
Springett, Ransom Riggs, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Status Quo, Lionel Richie,
David Bowie, Roky Erickson and the Aliens
Issue 257 (Judge Smith)
Issue 255/6 (John Lennon)
Issue 254 (Mr Biffo)
Issue 253 (Dana Gillespie)
Issue 252 (Cropredy)
Issue 251 (Scott Walker)
Issue 250 (Jamms)
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)
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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* 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?
NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Thursday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1721 - Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of Russia, changed his title to emperor.
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.