CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: Still on the Track: 12/02/19

Monday, December 02, 2019

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN FULFILS HIS PROMOISE TO AKELA

The Gonzo Daily: Monday/Tuesday

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And so the saga continues. There are Parish Magazine problems to deal with today as well as financial ones and the ongoing health issues with my nearest and dearest. There is a new episode of OTT out, and good things are happening as well as bad ones. And we shall overcome somehow...

They say every man needs protection
They say that every man must fall
Yet I swear I see my reflection
Somewhere so high above this wall
I see my light come shining
From the west down to the east
Any day now, any day now
I shall be released

Peace.

YER EDITOR SEZ: THE DIGITAL PRAYER FLAG
You guys have been doing massive amounts of praying for Corinna. I believe that the outpouring of good vibes transmitted electronically, being a little like a Tibetan prayer flag. Find out more:
https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/p/a-prayer-flag-lung-…

Blessed be.

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And by the way chaps and chappesses, a trip to the Jon Downes megastore may seem to be in order:
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Meanwhile I continue to pretend that I am a popstar, because now I have sold eleven 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 #365/6
THE LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND ISSUE
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This poignantly proggy issue features a love letter to Rick Wakeman, the 8th Futurological Free Cultural Spaces Symposium (FCS) in Amsterdam, Tony Beesley, The Clash, Hawkwind, there is animal rescue with PAART, and we prove that Alan Moore knows the score even when he has taken his name off the credits.

Now THAT's what I call eclectic!

Hail Eris!

And there are radio shows from Mack Maloney and Friday Night Progressive AND Canterbury sans Fronieres AND Merrell Fankhauser, but no sign of Srange Fruit this week, there is a column from Kev Rowland, and one from Mr Biffo, and one from C J Stone, and one from Neil Nixom but Roy Weard, is 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:

Marvel Comics, Watchmen, Alan Moore, Paul McCartney, Graham Coxon, Blur, Sharon Osbourne, Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Pet Shop Boys, Richard Freeman, Strange Fruit, Friday Night Progressive, Canterbury Sann Frontieres, The Merrell Fankhauser Show, Mack Maloney's Mystery Hour, RM djaduk ferianto Gregory, Jamarr Antonio Stamps (Bad Azz), Jan A. Byrczek, Gilles Bertin, Ivan 'Ivica' Maksimovic, Jan Erik Kongshaug, Michael Sherwood, Kehinde Lijadu, Vaughn Benejamin, Andrew Martinez (aka Wake Self), Robert Freeman, Rick Wakeman, Gerry Beckley, The Waterson Family, The Fall, Richard Wright and Dave Harris - Zee, Chasing the Monsoon, Icarus Rouff, Tony Beesley, 'Ignore Alien Orders – On Parole with the Clash’, Doug Harr, PAART, Alan Dearling, Amsterdam, Madam Bruno, Marco de Goede, Aja Waalwijk, Kev Rowland, Bob Mintzer Big Band - New York Voices, Bobby Sanabria Multiverse, Bullet for my Valentine, Canaan, Carptree, Centauro, Tony Klinger, C J Stone, Hawkwind, The Wild Colonial Boy, Jon Downes, Martin Springett

And the last few issues are:

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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

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* Jon Downes, the Editor of all these ventures (and several others) is an old hippy of 60 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?

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.

LAKE AND SEA MONSTER NEWS

The hunt for Lake and Sea Monsters is probably the most iconic branch of Cryptozoology. Following our successful Mystery Cat and BHM Study Groups, we feel that these sightings should also be archived and published in a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead

TRINIDAD SEA MONSTER EN PASSANT

CFZ MONTHLY NEWSLETTER #50

Dear Friends,

For those of you not in the know, at the beginning of each month we send out a newsletter to all members of the CFZ. The most recent (which went out on Tuesday) included articles on OTT, changes at the CFZ, the way forward, a giant shark, a mystery animal in Crete, Rememberance pigeons, Patreon, Richard Muirhead's new book, my new novel and record, a new book on vampires, Notes and Queries etc.

The infrastructure of the Centre for Fortean Zoology has changed rapidly over the last few years and truthfully doesn’t look like its going to stop changing anytime soon.

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On the Track (of Unknown Animals) Episode 109 (Loch Ness, shark attack, Boston blue dog etc)

On the Track (of Unknown Animals) Episode 109 (Loch Ness, shark attack, Boston blue dog etc)

Here we have the twenty-eighth episode of the relaunched webTV show by the Centre for Fortean Zoology, written and presented by Jon Downes and Charlotte Phillipson, their families and other animals. In the new look OTT; we will try to keep the montly episodes to half an hour, but in between the swcheduled episodes will be others - OTTXtra. So hold on, its gonna be a bumpy ride. And so far the bumpy ride seems to be a success: viewing figures are noticeably up, and the reactions we are getting seem very positive. This episode contains: • A touching Christmas song • A shout out to Biffo http://www.digitiser2000.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMW... • Absent Friends • Loch Ness: We meet the Prime Minister (sort of) • Loch Ness: A special guest • The Boston blue dog • The genesis of the chupacabras • British sharks • British shark related fatality • A great white in British waters? • A sinister dead dolphin • Max in Russia • Watcher of the skies...with comedy results ......The tragedy of the passenger pigeon ......Could the species have survived? • New and rediscovered: - New and rediscovered: rediscovered mouse deer - New and rediscovered: what are mouse deer • Fair use • Coming next month • Changes at OTT • The team says goodbye until next month _________________________________ Some useful contacts: CFZ Website www.cfz.org.uk CFZ Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CFZ OTT on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/OnTheTrack/ Jon on Twitter @cfzjon CFZ Blog Network https://forteanzoology.blogspot.co.uk/ CFZ Publications http://cfzresources.com/publishing/ CFZtv https://www.youtube.com/user/cfztv CFZ Next Generation Initiative https://www.facebook.com/groups/29796...

THYLACINES IN THE NEWS

Historic Beaumaris House passed in at auction for $3.9m

The Mercury

... once belonged to Henry and Mary Roberts, who established the original Beaumaris Zoo within the grounds – featuring thylacines and exotic birds.

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.