Happy Birthday, Shoshannah xxx
Friday, March 23, 2018
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.
- Big game hunters in Africa urged to drop the lead ...
- Detection, deterrent system will help eagles, wind...
- The early bird got to fly: Archaeopteryx was an ac...
- Brain genes related to innovation revealed in bird...
- Mummy's boys: young ibises all wrapped up as prese...
- Bird populations in French countryside 'collapsing...
- Oriental pied hornbill on decline
- Bird biodiversity in Tamil Nadu under severe threa...
- Volunteers to create bird atlas for Santa Cruz Cou...
- Conservationists find birds in central African rai...
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: Another tiger goes missing from Maha for...
VIDEO: Leopard Enters Residential Area in Ulhasnag...
NEWSLINK: Leopard mortality on rise; 21 more die i...
NEWSLINK: Man-eater leopard who killed four childr...
NEWSLINK: Leopard cub rescued from mother now bein...
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
Bigfoot researchers examine recent reported sighting in Oklahoma
JAY — A former Missouri deputy now uses the skills he
honed when he was solving criminal cases to investigate claims of the mysterious
Bigfoot creature sightings in Delaware County. Larry Newman was just one
of the speakers on Saturday at the Bigfoot Field Research Organization
meeting in Jay.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN TAKES CARE OF BUSINESS
The Gonzo Daily: Friday/Saturday
And so we reach the end of another week. It's been rather a good one; Carl
and Graham have achieved an awful lot of things, not only because we have Carl's
youth and enthusiasm, but the weather has been unaccountably dry for a change.
Hopefully today will see a continuation of the good work.
And Olivia and I have done all sorts of useful things this week, and are
continuing doing all sorts of useful things this morning. On top of that, I've
finished the first proof of Tyler Houk's book on the cryptozoology of Ohio.
Corinna is finishing the final proof of Rob Cornes' long awaited book on
long-necked seals. It feels like, after some years in the doldrum's, the CFZ is
finally getting back on the track (if I can coin a phrase) again...
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:
COMING THIS WEEKEND
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
TONY KLINGER REVIEW
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Ralph Vaughan William...
GALAHAD NEWS
Gonzo Weekly #278
THE HELTER SKELTER IS COMING DOWN FAST ISSUE
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)
Issue 277 (Auld Man's Baccie)
Issue 276 (Dukes of the Orient)
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!
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* The Gonzo Daily is - as the name implies - a daily online magazine
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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
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: Friday/Saturday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1066 - The 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet took place.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
India's endangered lion population increases to 60...
36 exotic animals disappear from Florida wildlife ...
Experts Are Stumped by the Toad with a Stump for a...
Tracking endangered mammals with the leeches that ...
Number of people killed by animals each year in th...
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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