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 bird spotted in Havering by readers

• Birdsong loss would echo silence in the forests
• Secret World Wildlife Rescue saves rare birds afte...
• In Colombia, birders find their version of Eden
• Citizen science birding data passes scientific mus...

YOU WANNA LIVE ON THE SHORES OF LOCH NESS?

Hello Jon.

This is a long-shot, but...

We are selling our home near Loch Ness...

https://www.remax-invernesselite.net/properties-for-sale/property/8490280-lewiston-drumnadrochit-drumnadrochit

... and wonder if you know of anyone who would like to live within walking distance of the Loch?

All the best to you, sir.

Regards

Mark Kearns

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN WAITS AND SEES

The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday

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

 

Over the weekend we have had more snow than we have had in years, and although the assorted dogs, cats and humans, have made it into a trodden down mess, the garden is still fairly wintry. Carl Marshall was due down today, but we took the decision to abort, purely because everything that we needed him to do is outside. and making the poor boy work outside in this would be something akin to being an inhabitant of a Gulag somewhere.

 

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:

 

Ep 89 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXdBY9oEyc

Ep 88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXpo0b0_MrU&t=396s

Ep 87 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi8BzaT3sCc&t=2s

Ep 86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdAn24MkErs&t=67s

EP 85 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E82xG502cA&t=21s

EP 84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7rDGbLdYxc&t=3s

EP 83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9lr_j2Ij8Q

EP 82 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iP_Pii7ZF8

 

And if you fancy supporting us on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

 

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:

http://tinyurl.com/gmo6axf

buy the record by the main protagonist of the novel who isn't me in an elephant mask, honest:

http://tinyurl.com/y7sya95r

buy my single:

http://tinyurl.com/zoex4d4

 

But for now, here is the news:

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/barbara-dickson-news_19.html

BARBARA DICKSON NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/brian-wilson-for-cropredy.html

BRIAN WILSON FOR CROPREDY

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/a-miscellany-of-yes-stories.html

A MISCELLANY OF YES STORIES

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-no-matter-what.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY:  No Matter What - Badf...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_19.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

 

Gonzo Weekly #278

THE HELTER SKELTER IS COMING DOWN FAST ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

In this extraordinarily groovy issue, Alan and Phil discover that The Beatles were not as squeaky clean as they were portrayed, Jeremy goes to see Eddie and the Hot Rods and Department S, Neil explores Psychedelic Australia, Graham looks at the latest Hawkwind news, Doug continues with his history of Split Enz, and Jon once again visits Mu Mu Land alongside a bloke called Andy Gell, and sulks cos he isn't allowed to let smoke grenades off in his garden.

 

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:

 

Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Andy Gell, Brian Epstein, Roger Daltrey, Brian Eno, Neil Young, Eminem, Liam Gallagher, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progessive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Stephen William Hawking CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd, OBE, Jerzy Stanislaw Milian, Gary Burden, Count Hubert James Macel Taffin de Givenchy, Craig Jamieson Mack, Nole Floyd "Nokie" Edwards, Claudia Fontaine, Matt Dike, James Whittaker "Jim Bowen", Liam O'Flynn, Tony Klinger, Billion Dollar Babies, Man, Delius, Edward Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Jeremy Smith, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Department S, Doug Harr, Split Enz, Alan Dearling, Phil Bayliss, The Beatles, Neil Arnold, Psychedelic Australia, Flake, Freshwater, Ash, Helium, Tymepiece, Glass Web, The Chocolate, The Elois, The Throb, The Thorts, Inkase, Australian Playboys, Blackfeather, Clapham Junction, The Creatures, The Vince Maloney Sect, Fraternity, The Master's Apprentices, The Vegetable Garden, Zoot, Rick Springfield, Kev Rowland, Apartment 213, Alan Reed, Almanac, Altavia, Sonata Arctica, Pocket Size, Root, Terra, Mr Biffo, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Joey Ramone, New Kids of the Block, Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Geri Halliwell, Nirvana, ACDC, Ska

 

And the last few issues are:

 

Issue 278 (The Beatles)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo278.html

Issue 277 (Auld Man's Baccie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo277.html

Issue 276 (Dukes of the Orient)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo276.html

Issue 275 (Martin Gordon)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo275.html

Issue 274 (Steve Took)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo274.html

Issue 273 (Live Dead 69)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo273.html

Issue 272 (George Butler)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo272.html

Issue 271 (Mark E Smith)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo271.html

Issue 270 (Eric Clapton)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo270.html

Issue 269 (Narnia)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo269.html

Issue 267-8 (Happy New Year)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo267-8.html

Issue 265-6 (The Who)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo265-6.html

Issue 264 (John McLaughlin)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo264.html

Issue 263 (The magic Band)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo263.html

Issue 262 (DikMik)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo262.html

Issue 261 (Leonard Cohen)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo261.html

Issue 260 (Amsterdam Squat Festie)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo260.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 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?

CRYPTOLINK: Goodness me its a plesiosaur (Dead Shark)

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. 



Mysterious sea creature washes ashore

Unexplained Mysteries

... St. Simons Island in Georgia Friday when they came upon the creature on a barrier island. Warren thought it was a dead seal, but said when he got a closer look it resembled more of the Loch Ness monster. https://www.news4jax.com/news/mysterious-sea-creature-washes-ashore-in-st-simons-island.

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Woman hiking in Arizona describes Troll like Bigfoot

Download subtitles from youtube videos!

hi this is Kelly Shaw welcome to another. Rocky Mountain Sasquatch organization. Bigfoot sighting report we're in the. Mongolian Rim of Arizona looking for the. McGowan monster and I'm going to give. you one of the Bigfoot sightings that. brought us into this area to take a look. around for mongolians ...

Bigfoot researchers examine recent reported sighting in Delaware County

Tulsa World

He said there have been a couple of sightings in southern Delaware County within the last two weeks. The problem, he said, is that when members of the Bigfoot researchers group interview witnesses, they are often told that 25 other people have seen the same thing but are embarrassed to talk about it.

NC group claims that have evidence that Bigfoot exists

FOX Carolina

A group in North Carolina is claiming they have evidence that Bigfoot exists. The group North Carolina Bigfoot has posted photos they claim to be evidence of Bigfoot, including footprints and bent branches, over the years. North Carolina Bigfoot claims evidence of Bigfoot sightings have been found in ...

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Monday/Tuesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1571 - Spanish troops occupied Manila. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Tens of thousands of starfish wash up on British b...

Female hunting spiders do not respond to chemical ...

For green toads, species with multiple genomes hav...

Cambodia's last leopards on brink of extinction

Tasmanian tiger joey 3D scans may unlock evolution...

Toxic toad invasion puts ecology of Madagascar at ...

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)