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. 

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: Six new tigers for Satkosia reserve
• SIGHTING, UK: 'Puma' spotted prowling on building ...

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.

• Cockatoo discovery reveals flourishing medieval tr...
• Museum collection reveals distribution of Carolina...
• The sounds of climate change
• When you're a sitting duck, you learn to adapt
• Birds have time-honored traditions, too

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

	Bigfoot Festival in Maple Falls Aug. 5 aims to boost park creation Lynden Tribune MAPLE FALLS — The former Bigfoot Festival returns and will be held in the planned Maple Fall Park area on Sunday, Aug. 5. It will involve at least 34 ...
	Bigfoot Believers Come to Meade County The Meade County Messenger Bigfoot Believers Come to Meade County. By Editor | July 3, 2018 | 0. When residents of Brandenburg think of events at the public library, what comes ...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN MIGHT AS WELL BE GALLINACEOUS

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

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A curate’s egg of a day. The car went in for a service today and it apparently needs £400 worth of stuff done to it. And I have a summer headcold or something of the sort.

 

Poo!

 

However Charlotte is coming over to film this afternoon which is always fun, and Graham seems to have fixed my computer problems, so there is a little gilt on the gingerbread.

 

And for those of you who are interested in such things, the Gonzo Privacy Policy is here:

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

 

And the CFZ Privacy Policy is here: http://tinyurl.com/y7b9rlog And, yes,

 

http://forteanzoology.blogspot.com/p/privacy-policy-this-privacy-policy.html

 

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 92 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-mRMpgJOd4&t=39s

Ep 91 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5wuSfHkv0

Ep 90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalg4_ozggg&t=817s

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.com/2018/07/the-gonzo-track-of-day-pink-fairies.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Pink Fairies - Uncle H...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/leonard-cohen-news.html

LEONARD COHEN NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/yes-in-news.html

YES IN THE NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_4.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2018/07/michael-bruce-review.html

MICHAEL BRUCE REVIEW

 

 

Gonzo Weekly #293

THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE STONES ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

In this remarkably eclectic issue, which is one of my favourites for a while, Alan discusses the events surrounding this summer’s Solstice  Celebrations at Stonehenge, Doug presents the first of two looks at the delectable Annabella Lwin and Bow wow wow, Jon looks at where this magazine stands vis-a-vis the music press as a whole, we celebrate a partial victory for the tree protestors over Sheffield City Council, John goes to Yorkshire for the Shangri-La of speakers, Jeremy critiques the new book on the Flamin’ Groovies, together with fantastic pix from George Alexander’s collection, and Graham brings us up to date with Hawkwind news.

 

#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 Kev Rowlands AND the irrepressible Corinna, although Neil Nixon, and Roy Weard, and C J Stone, and Mr Biffo are having a well-deserved week off. 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:

 

Mojo, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sans Frontieres, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Fedor Freso, Vincent Paul Abbot, David Bianco, Daniel Trombley Ingram, George Cameron, Geoffrey Oryema, Leslie Michael Grantham, Joseph Walter Jackson, Steve Soto, Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby, Rick Wakeman, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Mitchell Trio, Doug Harr, Bow Wow Wow, Annabella Lwin, George Alexander, Flamin' Groovies, Alan Dearling, Summer Solstice, Stonehenge Festival, Thom the World Poet, John Brodie-Good, Rebound Records (York), The Sound Organisation, Linn Isobaric Loudspeakers ('Briks'), Kev Rowland, Ghoul + Ill Bill, Loathe, Holding Absence, Joel Grind, Midnight, Nil Eye, Ringworm, Ghoul, Acid Witch, Multicult, Like Rats, Shed The Skin, Immortal Bird, Child Bite, Brain Tentacles, Ritual Howls, Superfecta, Cyril, Gygax, Innfight, Giuda, Jari Tuira, Jirm, Hawkwind, Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Rolling Stones, Freddie Mercury, Shania Twain, Gorillaz , Beatles, Damon Albarn, Nordoff Robins

 

And the last few issues are:

 

Issue 293 (Stonehenge)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo293.html

Issue 292 (Rolling Stones)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo292.html

Issue 291 (Alien Weaponry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo291.html

Issue 290 (Frank Zappa)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo290.html

Issue 289 (Misty in Roots)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo289.html

Issue 288 (Paula Frazer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo288.html

Issue 287 (Boss Goodman)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo287.html

Issue 286 (Monty Python)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo286.html

Issue 285 (ELP)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo285.html

Issue 284 (Straqngelove)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo284.html

Issue 283 (Record Store Day)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo283.html

Issue 282 (Neil Finn and Fleetwood Mac)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo282.html

Issue 281 (Carl Palmer)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo281.html

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:

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.

 

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* 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 -  1776 - The amended Declaration of Independence, prepared by Thomas Jefferson, was approved and signed by John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in America. 
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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)