Many apologies to Robin at CFZ Canada. There was a cock up on the blogfeed front, and I totally missed her blogs for the past six weeks.#
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
THYLACINES IN THE NEWS
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The Loneliest Word
... watch this rare and heartbreaking video of Benjamin, the very last Tasmanian tiger (or thylacine), pacing around his cramped enclosure in Hobart, ...
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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.
THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN AT DEFCON ONE
The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/
Today is my beloved wife's birthday, and Iwouldlike to take this opportunity to tell the whole world that I love her very much.
Toodle-pip
YER EDITOR SEZ: THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
You guys recently did massive amounts of praying for Corinna, and she now appears to be cancer free. I am convinced that these two things are related, with the outpouring of good vibes transmitted electronically, being a little like a Tibetan prayer flag. Having used it once to such good effect - I want to try it on a larger scale. I am still trying to work out the details, so watch this space.
Find out more:
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/a-prayer-flag-lung-ta-is-colourful.html
Blessed be.
ALL TODAY'S GONZO NEWS WOT'S FIT TO PRINT:
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-gonzo-track-of-day-suppers-ready.html
THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Supper's Ready Illustr...
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_10.html
THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/kev-rowland-french-review.html
KEV ROWLAND FRENCH REVIEW
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/frank-zappa-alumni-announce-california.html
FRANK ZAPPA: Alumni Announce California Concerts
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2019/07/captain-beefheart-trout-mask-replica.html
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: Trout Mask Replica – 50th Anni...
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
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?
AND THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE GONZO MAGAZINE:
Gonzo Weekly #345/6
THE DANCING RADICALLY ISSUE
http://www.gonzoweekly.com/
You will have to check people name spelling as still can't read it very well, but I think it is okay .. In this particularly eclectic issue, Alan sees Jah Wobble, Daniel Gaudi, Mark Stewart & RDF (Radical Dance Faction) and interviews their singer Chris Bowuber, the only person who has been in every line up of the band. Doug gives us a potted history of Goth, including Siouxie and the Banshees and the Cocteau Twins, Steve visits the Jarawa people of the Andaman Islands, Jon waxes lyrical about the lovely Melanie S Jane, reviews the new book by J.T. Wilson, and bitches on about the state of the nation, whilst we go to Glasto to critique Hawkwind and Stormzy. And finally we go behind the scenes of Rick Wakeman’s new box set.
Groovy eh?
Hail Eris!
And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Strange Fruit there is a columns from Kev Rowland, but Mr Biffo, C J Stone, and Roy Weard, Neil Nixon and the irrepressible Corinna are on hiatus. There is also a collection of more news, reviews, views, interviews and antichinuses who have lost their shoes (OK, nothing to do with tiny marsupials who are searching for 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:
Linda McCartney, Johnny Marr, New Order, Fish, Doris Brendel, Robert Plant, Jack White, Rick Wakeman, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, Gary Duncan (born Gary Ray Grubb), Anthony Hedges, Jack L. Renner, Elliot Roberts (born Elliot Eabinowitz), Gualberto Antonio Castro Levario, Peter Talbot Westergaard, Jeff Austin, David Louis Bartholomew, Jerry Carrigan, Paulo Figueiredo Antonio Pagni (also known as PA Pagni), Philippe Zdar (born Philippe Cerboneschi, Jacqui Magno, Eamon Friel, Kelly Jay Fordham, Nature Ganganbaigal, Leon Redbone (born Dickran Gobalian), Arthur Brown, Gregg Kofi Brown, Norma Waterson feat. Richard Thompson, Martin Carthy, Danny Thompson and Eliza Carthy, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Mitchell Trio inc John Denver, Steve Andrews, the Jarawa tribe, Melanie S Jane, Doug Harr, Gothic Rock, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cocteau Twins, Alan Dearling, Bass Sound Clash, One Dread, Radical Dance Faction, Youth, Jah Wobble, Mark Stewart, Chris Bowsher, Kev Rowland, Surmiser, Torture Rack, Power Trip, Lords of Black, Majesty of Silence, Materdea, Matt Baber, Tony Klinger, Hawkwind, Jonathan Downes, The Wild Colonial Boy, Martin Springett, Impossible Animals, J.T. Wilson, Stormzy
And the last few issues are:
Issue 343-4 (Auburn)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-341-2.html
Issue 341-42 (America)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-341-2.html
Issue 339-40 (Kev Rowland)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-339-40.html
Issue 337-38 (Zee)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-337-8.html
Issue 335-36 (Raz)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-335-6.html
Issue 333-34 (Nepal)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-333-4.html
Issue 331-32 (Scott Walker)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-331-2.html
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
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/
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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 59 who - together with a Jack Russell called Archie, an infantile orange cat named after a song by Frank Zappa, three other cats, 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 elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus.. did we mention Archie and the Cats?
THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG
THERE IS A NEW YEARBOOK UNDERWAY
But it’s not all doom and gloom. Together with my secretary Olivia, my wife Corinna, and Richard Muirhead, we are working on the first CFZ Yearbook since 2016.
For those of you who are not aware, the CFZ Yearbook – a series which started in 1995 – is a forum for research papers, expedition reports, and essays on the subject of cryptozoology and allied disciplines, too long to fit in our journal, Animals & Men.
So, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for all good folk to come to the aid of the party. I am actively soliciting contributions for the yearbook, and would very much like to hear from you if you have something that you would like us to consider. There is no upper word limit, but we ask for a minimum length of about 1500 words, although this – as with many things in life – is negotiable.
Can your submissions please be in the form of Word or RTF document, with pictures kept separate rather than embedded in the text? Also, can people please not embed footnotes or endnotes? Such notes should be included within the body text.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Jon
BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF
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Where To Find Bigfoot in the US
The state's most recent Bigfoot sighting was reported on January 1, 2019 by a witness named Bob Tully. The previous morning, he and a friend had ...
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NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday
ON THIS DAY IN - 1900 - ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
And now some more recent news from the CFZ Newsdesk
New move to ban shooting of hares in breeding seas...
Color vision found in fish that live in near darkn...
Melbourne zoo hatches plan to save southern corrob...
Rare black bear seen in no-go zone between North a...
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)
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)