Wednesday, March 14, 2018
THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG
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: Protecting tigers could be beneficial fo...
VIDEO: Zoo Keeper Mauled And Eaten Alive By Tiger ...
NEWSLINK: Tipeshwar emerging a tiger haven
NEWSLINK: Tiger deaths: Lab reports confirm big ca...
ARTICLE: A walk on the wild side
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.
- Rare hen harrier ‘Marc’ goes missing
- Geese to be banned from Regent's Park Boating Lake...
- A STAGGERING 260,000 songbirds were illegally kill...
- How do you solve a problem like my rhea? Ostrich-l...
GOODNESS ME IT'S THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN
The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
Ummmmmmmmm. For some reason The ballad of Reading Gaol is going round my
head today...
He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby grey;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So wistfully at the day.
I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
ciaou....
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:
And if you fancy supporting us on Patreon:
And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore
seems to be in order: if you want to make me a happy fellow, you can:
buy my novel:
buy the record by the main protagonist of the novel who isn't me in an
elephant mask, honest:
buy my single:
But for now, here is the news:
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Captain Beefheart Upon...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
Frank Zappa - Interview - 12/8/1984 - unknown (Off...
CORKY LAING SURPRISE
Gonzo Weekly #277
THE CAN BLUE MEN SING THE WHITES? ISSUE
We visit the Northeast of England to meet Davey and Nick from Auld Man's
Baccie, Alan finds DakhaBrakha, an insane ensemble from The Ukraine, Doug starts
to explore Split Enz and the Finn brothers, Neil looks at New Zealand
psychedelia, and Mr Biffo pitches a new TV show.
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, AND Friday
Night Progressive, there are columns from all sorts of folk including Neil
Nixon, Kev Rowlands, Roy Weard, C J Stone, and Mr Biffo AND the irrepressible
Corinna. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and
southern dibblers who have gone for a snooze (OK, nothing to do with small
marsupials who have probably got hangovers and have decided to have a little
rest, 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:
Eric Burdon, Silver Fox Cafe, Elton John, Barbra Streisand, The Mind Map,
Motorhead, Jeff Beck, Robert Smith's Meltdown, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Canterbury sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, NME, Jeff
St John, Trevor Graham Baylis CBE, John Charles Kenneth Gardestad, Brandon Dean
Jenkins, Ronald Lawrence Victor Prophet, Bill Burkette, Alexander Buchanan,
Patrick Doyle, Barbara Dickson, Jessica Lee Morgan, Billion Dollar Babies, Rick
Wakeman, Tangerine Dream, Auld Man's Baccie, David Curtis, Nick Phillips, Doug
Harr, Split Enz, Alan Dearling, DakhaBrakha, Neil Arnold, New Zealand
Psychedelia, Kev Rowland, Toothgrinder, Trepaneringsritualen, Tyler Bryant &
The Shakedown, Until the Sky Dies, Veni Vidi, We Came as Romans, Wildness, World
War Me, The Adicts, Apartment 213, Mr Biffo, Digitiser The Show, Roy Weard, CJ
Stone, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett,
ElectricNick, The Beatles, The Wonder Years.
And the last few issues are:
Issue 275 (Martin Gordon)
Issue 274 (Steve Took)
Issue 273 (Live Dead 69)
Issue 272 (George Butler)
Issue 271 (Mark E Smith)
Issue 270 (Eric Clapton)
Issue 269 (Narnia)
Issue 267-8 (Happy New Year)
Issue 265-6 (The Who)
Issue 264 (John McLaughlin)
Issue 263 (The magic Band)
Issue 262 (DikMik)
Issue 261 (Leonard Cohen)
Issue 260 (Amsterdam Squat Festie)
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 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: Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1489 - Catherine Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, sold her kingdom to Venice. She was the last of the Lusignan dynasty.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Playing both ends: Amphibian adapted to varied evo...
Domestic goat dating back to the Neolithic Corded ...
Kansas DWPT to conduct five-year review of imperil...
First video of 'dumbo' octopod hatchling shows tha...
Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction casca...
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)
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