Sunday, September 30, 2018
On The Track (of Unknown Animals) Ep. 95 (Gul expedition, Loch Ness Monster, Beast of Exmoor etc)
Here we have the fourteenth episode of the relaunched webTV show by the Centre for Fortean Zoology, written and presented by Jon Downes and Charlotte Phillipson, their families and other animals. This episode contains: • A brief note of explanation • Carl in the jungle • Tajikistan slideshow • Double "monsters" at Loch Ness • The President and the Giant Squid • Charlotte at Exmoor Zoo • The Beast of Exmoor • Lars and the leopard hair • Carl and the glowing birds of Borneo • PRODUCT PLACEMENT - Coldharbour • Watcher of the skies • New and rediscovered: New colubrid snake • New and rediscovered: New gecko • New and rediscovered: New cave catfish • New and rediscovered: New barbel • New and rediscovered: New pseudoscorpion • New and rediscovered: New mole • Fair use • Coming next month • The Patreon campaign • The team says goodbye until next month You can support us, and help us make this show ever more bigger and better at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/CFZ CFZ Website: http://www.cfz.org.uk/ CFZ on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... OTT on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/
THE HOPPY HEN PRAYS
The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
Corinna goes back into hospital first thing tomorrow, and so everything
this week is pretty much overwhelmed by this. On the Track ep 95 went out
yesterday afternoon, and we are all pretty proud of it and we hope you will all
forgive us for it being a week and a half late. We are all doing our best to
carry on as normal, but I am afraid that our deadlines are sort of out the
window at this point. Thank you to all of you who keep on praying for us. Please
continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. I am convinced that the
barrage of love and blessings you have sent us so far has borne remarkable
results. And being at the receiving end of such a barrage of love and healing is
a truly wonderful and humbling experience.
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have
sold six whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I
will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium.
Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't
I?
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jack Lancaster & frien...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem<
JOEY MOLLAND NEWS
FOR THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED IN MY DAY JOB?
SPIRITS BURNING: French review translated
OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:
For those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy
Policy is here:
And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
And, yes,
CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:
UK
US
AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
Our webTV show:
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may
seem to be in order:
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #305-6
THE SAUCERFUL OF WASSNAMES ISSUE
In another fantastically fab issue, Kev and Jon bid a fond farewell to
Maartin Allcock, Graham has a shufti at the reactions to the new Hawkwind album,
Alan looks at art from beach litter, and conducts a Listening Post with Kyle
Mew, Jeremy checks out Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, John goes to see David
Crosby, and Jon burbles on about Erich Kastner, Michael Moorcock and Bojack
Horseman.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Canterbury sans
Frontieres AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there is a columns from Kev
Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard AND Mr Biffo but the
irrepressible Corinna is on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK,
nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with
regards their footwear, 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:
Erich Kästner, Bojack Horseman, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Chas Hodges,
Cruise to the Edge, Peter Hook, Joy Division, Damon Albarn, Suede, Gary Numan,
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Jeremy Smith, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery
Hour, Max Bennett, Wesley Tinglin, Cecil James McNeely, Buren Bayaer, Denis
Mostyn Norden CBE, Felton Pruett, Charles Nicholas Hodges, Dudley Sutton, Man,
Binky Womack, Rick Wakeman, Essra Mohawk, Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun, Alan
Dearling, Litter Cubes, Kev Rowland, Maartin Allcock,Richard Foreman, Swanage
Folk Festival, John Brodie-Good, David Crosby & Friends, Kyle Mew,
Streetlight Manifesto, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Childish Gambino,
Andrew Jackson Jihad, Mariachi El Bronx aka The Bronx, Random Hand, Jonathan
Coulton, Brothers Moving, Gogol Bordello, Fake Problems, Downriver Dead Men Go,
Earthless, Epos Nemo Latrocinium, The Fierce and the Dead, Flesh Hoarder,
Frequency Drift, Frontline, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Chris Stone, Hawkwind,
Coldharbour Diaries, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett,
Michael Moorcock, Spirits Burning, Neil Nixon, Vincent Gallo
And the last few issues are:
Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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 59 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: Monday/Tueday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1569 - The Duke of Norfolk was imprisoned by Britain's Queen Elizabeth for trying to marry Mary the Queen of Scots.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
New perspective on how lemurs got to Madagascar
More protection needed for Chinese pangolins
Ancient fossil turtle had no shell
Bat signal: Fireflies' glow tells bats they taste ...
North Carolina Allows First Alligator Hunt in More...
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)
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)
Friday, September 28, 2018
Gonzo Weekly #305-6
Gonzo Weekly #305-6
THE SAUCERFUL OF WASSNAMES ISSUE
In another fantastically fab issue, Kev and Jon bid a fond farewell to
Maartin Allcock, Graham has a shufti at the reactions to the new Hawkwind album,
Alan looks at art from beach litter, and conducts a Listening Post with Kyle
Mew, Jeremy checks out Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, John goes to see David
Crosby, and Jon burbles on about Erich Kastner, Michael Moorcock and Bojack
Horseman.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, Canterbury sans
Frontieres AND Friday Night Progressive, AND there is a columns from Kev
Rowlands, Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard AND Mr Biffo but the
irrepressible Corinna is on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK,
nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with
regards their footwear, 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:
Erich Kästner, Bojack Horseman, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Chas Hodges,
Cruise to the Edge, Peter Hook, Joy Division, Damon Albarn, Suede, Gary Numan,
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, Jeremy Smith, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit,
Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery
Hour, Max Bennett, Wesley Tinglin, Cecil James McNeely, Buren Bayaer, Denis
Mostyn Norden CBE, Felton Pruett, Charles Nicholas Hodges, Dudley Sutton, Man,
Binky Womack, Rick Wakeman, Essra Mohawk, Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun, Alan
Dearling, Litter Cubes, Kev Rowland, Maartin Allcock,Richard Foreman, Swanage
Folk Festival, John Brodie-Good, David Crosby & Friends, Kyle Mew,
Streetlight Manifesto, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Childish Gambino,
Andrew Jackson Jihad, Mariachi El Bronx aka The Bronx, Random Hand, Jonathan
Coulton, Brothers Moving, Gogol Bordello, Fake Problems, Downriver Dead Men Go,
Earthless, Epos Nemo Latrocinium, The Fierce and the Dead, Flesh Hoarder,
Frequency Drift, Frontline, Mr Biffo, Roy Weard, Chris Stone, Hawkwind,
Coldharbour Diaries, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett,
Michael Moorcock, Spirits Burning, Neil Nixon, Vincent Gallo
And the last few issues are:
Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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.
CRYPTOLINKS: Ogopogo sightings
A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.
New video of Canada's legendary Ogopogo lake monster surfaces
New video of Canada's legendary Ogopogo lake monster surfaces
UNTIL this month, it had been years since anybody claimed
to have seen the legendary Ogopogo — Canada's version of the Loch Ness
monster.
Mysterious
lake creature spotted
UNTIL
this month, it had been years since anybody claimed to have seen the legendary
Ogopogo — Canada's version of the Loch Ness monster.»
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
Bigfoot Festival in Oklahoma tapped to thrill all ages
The public's fascination with Bigfoot will
continue to endure for decades and decades, according to one area individual.
Proof that thoughts centering ...
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.
- Elephant bird mystery solved? Discovery may explai...
- Borders Chilean flamingo chicks a first for Scotla...
- Road to recovery for the Roseate Tern
- Man used poison to kill more than 130 wedge-tailed...
BIG CAT ROUND UP
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.
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.
ARTICLE: Are big cats really on the prowl in Dorse...
NEWSLINK: After lion, tiger dies in City zoo
NEWSLINK: 64 teams formed to scan lions in Gir for...
NEWSLINK: Tiger population doubles in Nepal
CARL WRITES: 30/8/18 - Bonnyrigg, Midlothian
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PRAYS
The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
Carl went home this morning, and I miss the dear boy already. The outside
axolotls are indoors now until the spring, and my Gambusia are in the South
China fishtank in the sitting room. On the Track is being a bugger to mix down,
but will - I hope - be out before the end of the weekend. Were you interested in
all that? Probably not.
Corinna goes back into hospital next week and the cycle of tests and stress
starts again. Thank you to all of you who keep on praying for us both. Please
continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. I am convinced that the
barrage of love and blessings you have sent us so far has borne remarkable
results. And being at the receiving end of such a barrage of love and healing is
a truly wonderful and humbling experience.
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have
sold six whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I
will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium.
Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't
I?
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Liberace and the Lond...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
COMING THIS WEEKEND
HAWKWIND NEWS
THE GARDENING CLUB - prog-rocker Martin Springett ...
OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:
For those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy
Policy is here:
And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
And, yes,
CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:
UK
US
AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
Our webTV show:
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may
seem to be in order:
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #303-4
THE BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS MARCHING UP AND DOWN AGAIN ISSUE
In another fantastically fab issue, Alan goes to Kozfest, John goes to see
Devon Allman, Graham discusses the departure of Mr Dibs from Hawkwind, Jon and
Graham try to buy opioids with comedy results, Jon talks about Paul McCartney,
and a kid's fantasy writer froim yesteryear, the Raz Band wow LA, and Doug goes
to see Yes feat. ARW.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, AND there is a columns from Kev Rowlands, but all sorts of
folk including Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard and the irrepressible
Corinna AND Mr Biffo are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK,
nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with
regards their footwear, 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:
kaolin and morphine, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Amy Winehouse, Ozzy
Osbourne, Bart, Alan Parsons, Elton John, Lenny Kravitz, The RAZ Band, Richard
Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Anna Karabessini, Malcolm James McCormick "Mac Miller", Wilson Moreira, Liz
Fraser, Burton Leon Reynolds Jr., Elisa Serna, Conway Victor Savage, Randy
Weston, Michael "Mike" A. Kennedy, Rene Garcia, Donald McGuire, Richard Bateman,
Helen Shepherd, Fenella Fielding, OBE, Johnny Strike, Man, Binky Womack, Rick
Wakeman, Essra Mohawk, Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun, Doug Harr, Cruise to the
Edge, ARW, Yes, Alan Dearling, Kozfest, The Dials, Thom the World Poet, John
Brodie-Good, The Devon Allman Project, Allman Brothers Band, Duane Betts, Kev
Rowland, Widow's Peak, Witch Casket, Superstition, Robert Reed, Tom Newman, Les
Penning, Diane Marino, Diane Moser, Jan Edwards, Hawkwind, Mr Dibs, Jon Downes,
Coldharbour Diaries, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Edward Eager
And the last few issues are:
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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 59 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: Friday/Saturday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Exploring Galapagos snakes on volcanoes – via Herp...
Palm oil: A new threat to Africa's monkeys and ape...
Ancient virus defends koalas against new viral att...
Illinois’ imperiled eastern massasauga rattlesnake...
Rise in wolf attacks alarms Dutch sheep farmers
Hippo bite kills Taiwan tourist in Kenya
Capturing elephants from the wild shortens their l...
Community-based conservation management has positi...
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)
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)
Thursday, September 27, 2018
BIG CAT ROUND UP
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.
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: 64 teams formed to scan lions in Gir for...
NEWSLINK: Tiger population doubles in Nepal
CARL WRITES: 30/8/18 - Bonnyrigg, Midlothian
VIDEO: Close encounter at Taigan Safari Park in Cr...
NEWSLINK: Tiger scare keeps students off school in...
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.
- More swans are 'stolen' from Radipole Lake bird re...
- A record year for Denbighshire's terns ... but wil...
- Three critically endangered hen harriers disappear...
- Rare visitor flies in to Yorkshire coast
- ‘Italian bird smugglers brought species to Malta’
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PRAYS
The Gonzo Daily: Thursday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
I realised yesterday that I had been a little over-mysterious, alluding to
having been "overtaken by events" without explaining what they were. Basically,
the long and the short of it all is that we have acquired a new housekeeper.
Because of Corinna's illness, we decided that someone professional was needed,
and - lo and behold - on Monday we acquired our very own Mary Poppins. We have
also had a whole string of shitness involving computers, none of them doing what
we wanted them to do. This morning I received a totally pointless letter that
made me laugh. It was a (paper) letter from the Leccy Board saying that they
were not going to send me any more paper letters. That reminded me of my tongue
in cheek footnote in ‘The Song of Panne’ explaining what a footnote was.
However, when I did it, it was a joke.
Corinna goes back into hospital next week and the cycle of tests and stress
starts again. Thank you to all of you who keep on praying for us both. Please
continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. I am convinced that the
barrage of love and blessings you have sent us so far has borne remarkable
results. And being at the receiving end of such a barrage of love and healing is
a truly wonderful and humbling experience.
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have
sold six whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I
will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium.
Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't
I?
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Steve Hillage ~ Activ...
ERIK NORLANDER IN THE NEWS
LEONARD COHEN NEWS
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
SPIRITS BURNING REVIEW
OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF FROM THE GONZOVERSE:
For those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy
Policy is here:
And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here:
And, yes,
CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:
UK
US
AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:
Our webTV show:
And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may
seem to be in order:
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #303-4
THE BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS BOOTS MARCHING UP AND DOWN AGAIN ISSUE
In another fantastically fab issue, Alan goes to Kozfest, John goes to see
Devon Allman, Graham discusses the departure of Mr Dibs from Hawkwind, Jon and
Graham try to buy opioids with comedy results, Jon talks about Paul McCartney,
and a kid's fantasy writer froim yesteryear, the Raz Band wow LA, and Doug goes
to see Yes feat. ARW.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, AND there is a columns from Kev Rowlands, but all sorts of
folk including Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard and the irrepressible
Corinna AND Mr Biffo are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK,
nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with
regards their footwear, 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:
kaolin and morphine, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Amy Winehouse, Ozzy
Osbourne, Bart, Alan Parsons, Elton John, Lenny Kravitz, The RAZ Band, Richard
Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Anna Karabessini, Malcolm James McCormick "Mac Miller", Wilson Moreira, Liz
Fraser, Burton Leon Reynolds Jr., Elisa Serna, Conway Victor Savage, Randy
Weston, Michael "Mike" A. Kennedy, Rene Garcia, Donald McGuire, Richard Bateman,
Helen Shepherd, Fenella Fielding, OBE, Johnny Strike, Man, Binky Womack, Rick
Wakeman, Essra Mohawk, Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun, Doug Harr, Cruise to the
Edge, ARW, Yes, Alan Dearling, Kozfest, The Dials, Thom the World Poet, John
Brodie-Good, The Devon Allman Project, Allman Brothers Band, Duane Betts, Kev
Rowland, Widow's Peak, Witch Casket, Superstition, Robert Reed, Tom Newman, Les
Penning, Diane Marino, Diane Moser, Jan Edwards, Hawkwind, Mr Dibs, Jon Downes,
Coldharbour Diaries, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Edward Eager
And the last few issues are:
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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 59 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 -
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Rise in wolf attacks alarms Dutch sheep farmers
Hippo bite kills Taiwan tourist in Kenya
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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)
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)
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
CRYPTOLINK: Fake seaserpent
A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting (sometimes for the wrong reasons), usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.
This Washed-Up Sea Creature Was the Work of Viral Hoaxer Zardulu
This Washed-Up Sea Creature Was the Work of Viral Hoaxer Zardulu
When a strange sea creature washed ashore near
Darien, Georgia, last March, marine biologists were stumped. With an elongated
neck, shark-like ...
NESSIENEWS (Caveat Lector)
Ninth official Loch Ness Monster sighting of 2018 spotted on GOOGLE EARTH by Nessie hunting ...
A US mum has uncovered the ninth official sighting of the
Loch Ness Monster this year – while browsing GOOGLE EARTH. Lisa Stout
made the ...
Google Earth used to find Loch Ness Monster after mum 'spots mythical creature in water'
Google Earth used to find Loch Ness Monster after mum 'spots mythical creature in water'
Lisa
Stout, from Bellvue, Ohio, says she began her search for the elusive beast after
being laid off from work »
Loch Ness Monster FOUND? Google Maps
'captures object lurking in Highlands'
Ms Stout, 31, told the Official Loch Ness Monster
Sightings Register: “I had been searching for Nessie on and off for the past few
weeks, spending an ...
Monday, September 24, 2018
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
MITCHELL: Keeping an open mind at Cryptid Con
Cliff Barackman is convinced that Bigfoot will
eventually stop playing hide-and-seek with us and introduce himself to his
neighbors. It's just a matter of ...
Bigfoot Sightings 2018
Bigfoot Sightings 2018
Bigfoot
sightings are often dubious, but always entertaining. And sometimes, you'll come
upon a video or an account that really jumps out at you, and ...
First Bigfoot conference in
Pocatello
POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) - It's the first
Bigfoot conference in Pocatello. Advocates and experts alike gathered
Friday to go over everything ...
Bigfoot conference being held today
in Pocatello
There will also be a guest appearance by Beck Cook,
author of “Bigfoot Lives in Idaho.” The conference will be held at the
Warehouse, home of the ...
American fisherman managed to shoot the “Bigfoot”
American fisherman managed to shoot the “Bigfoot”
The is gaining popularity.In the US, a local fisherman,
claims to have encountered Bigfoot. His words the man tried to confirm
the appropriate photo, ...
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN PRAYS
The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
YER EDITOR SEZ:
I am sorry to have been absent for a couple of days but I was overtaken by
events. Before anyone jumps to conclusions, these 'events' to which I allude
were not anything to do with Corinna's current illness. She continues to be pain
free, and although she has intermittent discomfort is doing OK. She goes back
into hospital next week and the cycle of tests and stress starts again. Please
continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers. I am convinced that the
barrage of love and blessings you have sent us so far has borne remarkable
results.
Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have
sold six whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I
will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium.
Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases
I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't
I?
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
YES feat. ARW in the news
THE FALL: life imitates whassname
IAIN MATTHEWS IN THE NEWS
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Inner City Unit - Raj ...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
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In another fantastically fab issue, Alan goes to Kozfest, John goes to see
Devon Allman, Graham discusses the departure of Mr Dibs from Hawkwind, Jon and
Graham try to buy opioids with comedy results, Jon talks about Paul McCartney,
and a kid's fantasy writer froim yesteryear, the Raz Band wow LA, and Doug goes
to see Yes feat. ARW.
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, AND there is a columns from Kev Rowlands, but all sorts of
folk including Neil Nixon, C J Stone, AND Roy Weard and the irrepressible
Corinna AND Mr Biffo are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news,
reviews, views, interviews and red kangaroos who've lost their shoes (OK,
nothing to do with the largest extant macropods who are in a quandry with
regards their footwear, 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:
kaolin and morphine, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Amy Winehouse, Ozzy
Osbourne, Bart, Alan Parsons, Elton John, Lenny Kravitz, The RAZ Band, Richard
Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour,
Anna Karabessini, Malcolm James McCormick "Mac Miller", Wilson Moreira, Liz
Fraser, Burton Leon Reynolds Jr., Elisa Serna, Conway Victor Savage, Randy
Weston, Michael "Mike" A. Kennedy, Rene Garcia, Donald McGuire, Richard Bateman,
Helen Shepherd, Fenella Fielding, OBE, Johnny Strike, Man, Binky Womack, Rick
Wakeman, Essra Mohawk, Mick Farren and Andy Colquhoun, Doug Harr, Cruise to the
Edge, ARW, Yes, Alan Dearling, Kozfest, The Dials, Thom the World Poet, John
Brodie-Good, The Devon Allman Project, Allman Brothers Band, Duane Betts, Kev
Rowland, Widow's Peak, Witch Casket, Superstition, Robert Reed, Tom Newman, Les
Penning, Diane Marino, Diane Moser, Jan Edwards, Hawkwind, Mr Dibs, Jon Downes,
Coldharbour Diaries, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Edward Eager
And the last few issues are:
Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)
Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)
Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)
Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)
Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)
Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)
Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)
Issue 293 (Stonehenge)
Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)
Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)
Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)
Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)
Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)
Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)
Issue 286 (Monty Python)
Issue 285 (ELP)
Issue 284 (Straqngelove)
Issue 283 (Record Store Day)
Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
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 59 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?