LOOK WHO'S BACK

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Welcome home Robin. We have truly missed you, and our talk last night was the best news I have had in several weeks...

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.

• Desert plants provided by homeowners offer habitat...
• Bumper hihi breeding season on pest-free Tiritiri ...
• Historic release bolsters one of Canada's most end...
• Report reveals number of wild birds that were kill...
• Why fly the coop? With shortage of mates, some bir...

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Man Finds Bigfoot Tracks In Medical Lake, Washington

Freak Lore

A retired man along with his wife from Medical Lake, Washington came across tracks in the snow not long ago. His name is Steve Meacham and he is ...

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN STILL FORGES FORWARD 2WITH A RESOLUTE LOOK ON HIS FACE.

The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/

 

With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks

Through solstice stubborn to equinox.

 

YER EDITOR SEZ:

THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG

 

Regular readers will know that we recently shared the positive news about Corinna's health with you all, and that - at least at the moment - she appears to be cancer free. I am convinced that her condition is a direct result of the good wishes, prayers, and positive vibes from thousands of people around the world.

 

A prayer flag (Lung ta) is a colourful rectangular cloth, often found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas. They are used to bless the surrounding countryside and for other purposes.

 

Find out more:

https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/a-prayer-flag-lung-ta-is-colourful.html

 

I believe something similar happens with positive vibes transmitted electronically, and - having used it to such good effect with my dear wife's condition, I want to try it on a larger scale. I am still trying to work out the details, so watch this space.

 

Blessed be.

 

ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:

 

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-elvis-costello.html

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY:  Elvis Costello - All ...

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/03/sandy-tribute.html

SANDY TRIBUTE

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/03/rick-wakeman-in-hastings.html

RICK WAKEMAN IN HASTINGS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-whole-bunch-of-jon-anderson-news.html

A WHOLE BUNCH OF JON ANDERSON NEWS

http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_20.html

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

 

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:

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And, yes,

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

 

CHECK OUT THE GONZO STORES:

 

UK

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

US

http://www.gonzomultimedia.com

 

AND OTHER STUFF FEATURING VARIOUS GONZO CONTRIBUTORS:

 

Our webTV show:

https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/posts/632561497117057

 

And if you fancy supporting it on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/CFZ

 

And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:

https://gonzotesting.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-notion-of-shopkeepers.html

 

Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eight whole copies of my new album Coldharbour. If I continue at this rate I will get a silver disc sometime at the beginning of the next millenium. Coldharbour, by the way, can be found here: https://jondownes1.bandcamp.com/releases

 

I think it is really rather good, but then again I would say that wouldn't I?

 

I do have good news to impart: Lars Thomas' book about the mystery land animals of Scandinavia and the Baltic States has been uploaded, and over at Gonzo the first volume of Kev Rowland's The Progressive Underground is also imminent. And at Fortean Fiction, my latest novel - 'Zen and Xenophobia' - vaguely a sequel to 2015's 'The Song of Panne' - is now available.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zen-Xenophobia-happened-after-Panne/dp/1909488569/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540992221&sr=8-1&keywords=zen+and+xenophobia

 

! would warn you that if you are of a nervous disposition, or easily offended, you will find parts of my novel both offensive and upsetting. There is sex, violence, drug abuse, occultism, pornography, firearms, politics, religion, and not a little sociology. But there is also love, kindness, faith, and redemption. And it's a cracking good yarn. Or I think so, at any rate. All I would say on the subject before bidding you farewell is Caveat Lector. And I'm not gonna explain what that means, because because if you don't know what that means then you probably shouldn't be reading the book in the first place.

 

AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:

 

Gonzo Weekly #329/30

THE EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN ISSUE

http://www.gonzoweekly.com/

 

In a specially green issue we bring you the adventures of Charlie X, Steve Andrews tells of the awful fires in Colombia, and Jon and Charlotte go on climate strike. John goes to see Steely Dan and Steve Winwood, we interview Martin Gordon about his Brexit inspired single, Graham keeps us up to date with Hawkwind news, Alan writes about Chrysalis, we review the new book by Stephen Clarke 1980, and Jon is amused by the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody.

 

Hail Eris!

 

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Strange Fruit. AND there is a column from Kev Rowland, BUT C J Stone, and Neil Nixon, Roy Weard, Mr Biffo, and the irrepressible Corinna are on hiatus.  There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and rock wallabies who've blown a fuse (OK, nothing to do with the relatively small macropods who are having electrical problems, 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:

 

Bohemian Rhapsody, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Michael Epstein, Queen, Michael Jackson, Jon Anderson, Yes, Martin Gordon, Shakti Fest, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Douglas Sandom, Stephan Ellis, Edward Isaac Bickert, CM, Paul Williams (ne Paul William Yarlett), André George Previn, KBE (ne Andreas Ludwig Priwin), Leo de Castro

(ne Kiwi Leo de Castro Kino), Keith Charles Flint, Magenta Devine (nee Kim Taylor), Sara Romweber, Mike Grose, Edward Taylor (Eddie Taylor Jr.), James Dapogny, Asa Brebner, Hal Blaine (ne Harold Simon Belsky), John Kilzer, The Fall, Rick Wakeman, The RAZ Band, America, Alan Dearling, Neil Goodwin, Charlie X, Chrysalis, John Brodie-Good, Steely Dan Band, Steve Winwood, Kev Rowland, Hallux, Hartmann, Infinitee, Infrared, Issa, James Christian, Jared Gold, Jupiter Society, Gregg McKella, Dr Sardonicus Midwinter Nights Dream Psychedelic Festival #2, Paradise 9, Broken Lines, Lost Tuesday Society, Sendelica, Twink, Tony Klinger, Steve Andrews, Colombia, Kogi Mamos, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, climate change, Hawkwind,  Jon Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Thom the World Poet, Stephen Clarke

 

And the last few issues are:

 

Issue 329-30 (Charlie X)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-329-30.html

Issue 327-28 (Hawkwind)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-327-8.html

Issue 325-26 (Gonzo)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-325-5.html

Issue 323-24 (Irvine Welsh)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-323-4.html

Issue 321-22 (Discordianism)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-321-2.html

Issue 319-20 (Brix Smith)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-319-20.html

Issue 317-18 (Christmas)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-317-18.html

Issue 315-16 (Steve Miller)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-315-16.html

Issue 313-14 (Hawkwind)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-313-14.html

Issue 311-12 (Extinction Rebellion)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-310-11.html

Issue 309-10 (Steve Hillage)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-309-10.html

Issue 307-8 (Michael Moorcock)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-307-8.html

Issue 305-6 (Maartin Allcock)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-305-6.html

Issue 303-4 (kOZFEST)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-303-4.html

Issue 301-2 (Ringo Starr)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-301-2.html

Issue 299-300 (Aretha Franklin)

https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-299-30.html

Issue 298 (Alan in Hungary)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 297 (Shir Ordo)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo297.html

Issue 295-6 (Robert Berry)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo295-6.html

Issue 294 (Bow Wow Wow)

http://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo294.html

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 (Strangelove)

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.

 

 

* 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 59 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 - 1413 - Henry V took the throne of England upon the death of his father Henry IV. 
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk

Scientists research impact of oil rig spills on fi...

Evolutionary history of baboons

Ancient pandas weren't exclusive bamboo eaters, bo...

Climate change: 'Future proofing' forests to prote...

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)