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World News: What is the Chupacabra,
what was the creature in Argentina and is it related to the ...
A MYSTERIOUS beast was spotted roaming an Argentinian
town and has been compared to two legendary creatures. Here's what we know about
the sinister creatures of the night. The chupacabra is a creature in
Latin American folklore that has had reported sightings across the
world ..
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Mysterious 'Half-Human Half-Animal'
Captured on Video After Mauling Dogs in Argentina
El Chupacabra? Zuul? An image circulating on the
internet of a dog-like creature from hell that was allegedly spotted in
Argentina after having killed two large dogs is baffling scientists. The lanky
creature is definitely not human, and it is definitely not like any canine we've
ever seen, but what exactly ...
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Thursday, April 19, 2018
CRYPTOLINKS: Chupacabras round up
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.
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: Bolivia’s jaguars facing threat from Chi...
NEWSLINK: A leopard dies each week in Rajasthan, r...
ARTICLE: The time a leopard escaped on a busy Plym...
NEWSLINK: Three days after translocation, tiger RT...
THYLACINES IN THE NEWS
Yowies and thylacines in Charlestown
About: Bill Flowers is a respected Thylacine
Researcher for the Thylacine Research Unit and co-host of the Hunt for
the Tasmanian Tiger on Animal Planet he is also a wildlife artist and a wildlife
expert, he will be coming from Tasmania to give a presentation on what evidence
science needs, what ...
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN JUST IS
The Gonzo Daily: Thursday
I felt particularly crappy yesterday. I am afraid my body is telling me
that I am nearly sixty and cannot treat it in the cavalier fashion that I did
when I was younger. I need to start being sensible, despite the fact that
"sensible" is not a word usually to be found in my vocabulary.
Changing the subject completely, is there anyone reading this who has any
experience in coding apps? Even more importantly, if you do, would you be
prepared to lend your expertise to us for a few hours? Email me please at
jon@eclipse.co.uk.
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: Renée Fleming: Casta ...
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
LEONARD COHEN IN THE NEWS
FRANK ZAPPA BLOGPOST
JOEY MOLLAND INTERVIEW
Gonzo Weekly #282
THE GROWING FINS ISSUE
Doug Harr leads us through the latest twist in the Fleetwood Mac saga, as
Lindsey Buckingham is out and Neil Finn from Crowded House etc is in. Richard
writes on Bill Kreutzmann, post Grateful Dead, Alan raves about Fifty Foot Hose,
and Jeremy goes to see Ferocious Dog, now augmented by he who was Fruitbat from
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. And Jon? He is away with the fairies and
writing about a Series of Unfortunate Events...
#Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Strange Fruit, AND Mack Maloney, BUT Friday
Night Progressive is on hiatus this week, there are columns from all sorts of
folk including Neil Nixon, Kev Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna, although
Roy Weard, C J Stone, and Mr Biffo are sadly absent this week. There is also a
collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and southern dibblers who
have stood around in twos (OK, nothing to do with small marsupials who have
paired up under last weekend's blue moon, 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:
Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Beatles, Brett Anderson,
Yoko Ono, Yes, Johnny Marr, Justin Hayward, Belle & Sebastian, Laura
Marling, Mike Lindsay, U2, Elvis Presley, Strange Fruit, Friday Night
Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Jacques Joseph
Victor Higelin, Cecil Percival Taylor, Ronald Dunbar, Nathan Tate Davis, Yvonne
Stapley, Tim Matley, Rick Wakeman, Natural Gas, Ashton, Gardner and Dyke,
Michael Bruce, Man, Jeremy Smith, Ferocious Dog, Doug Harr, Fleetwood Mac, Alan
Dearling, Fifty Foot Hose, Richard Foreman, Bill Kreutzmann, Kev Rowland,
Witchhammer, Alestorm, Ammunition, Amor, Ampline, Anvil, Galahad, Mr Biffo,
Hawkwind, Jon Downes, Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Simon Young, Ceri
Houlbrook, Madness, Keith Moon, Alice Cooper, Grateful Dead, Calpurnia
And the last few issues are:
Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)
Issue 280 (Steve Andrews)
Issue 279 (Biffo)
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!
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?
MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Rediscovery of Moth-bee in Malaysia
On December 16th 2017 a moth that disguises itself as a bee was
rediscovered in a Malaysian rain forest by a lepidopterist from Poland.
According to the Guardian (print version) :
" A moth that disguises itself as a bee and was previously only identified by a single damaged specimen collected in 1887 has been rediscovered in the Malaysian rainforest by a lepidopterist from Poland. The oriental blue clearwing (Heterosphecia tawonides) was seen " mud-puddling" - collecting salts and minerals from damp areas with its tongue-like proboscis ( a behaviour I witnessed with many blue butterflies in N.Hungary several years ago, see `Over The Hills to Hungary ` on You Tube) on the banks of a river in Malaysia`s lowland rainforest, one of the most wildlife-rich - and threatened - regions on Earth...The 1887 specimen was collected in Indonesia but Marta Skowron Volponi of the University of Gdansk rediscovered the species when she saw a flash of brilliant blue on the banks of unpolluted rivers flowing through lowland rainforest..."
" A moth that disguises itself as a bee and was previously only identified by a single damaged specimen collected in 1887 has been rediscovered in the Malaysian rainforest by a lepidopterist from Poland. The oriental blue clearwing (Heterosphecia tawonides) was seen " mud-puddling" - collecting salts and minerals from damp areas with its tongue-like proboscis ( a behaviour I witnessed with many blue butterflies in N.Hungary several years ago, see `Over The Hills to Hungary ` on You Tube) on the banks of a river in Malaysia`s lowland rainforest, one of the most wildlife-rich - and threatened - regions on Earth...The 1887 specimen was collected in Indonesia but Marta Skowron Volponi of the University of Gdansk rediscovered the species when she saw a flash of brilliant blue on the banks of unpolluted rivers flowing through lowland rainforest..."
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.
Appeal for volunteers to help rare coastal seabird...
NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Thursday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1012 - Aelfheah was murdered by Danes who had been ravaging the south of England. Aelfhear became the 29th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1005.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
Fight begins over fate of leatherback sea turtle –...
Duke Marine Lab student researches light pollution...
Spiders and scorpions have co-opted leg genes to b...
Cockroaches' DNA reveals why they thrive in filthy...
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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