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The Gonzo Daily: Wednesday

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Today has been a bit of a weird one: Corinna went into hospital for an endoscopy and a bunch of biopsies this morning. Amy Phillipson took her in atan unfeasibly awful hour. She is back now (by Graham power) and cannot eat or have anything but water until tomorrow morning. Poor girl is very woozy and very sore. In the meantime, my granddaughter Evelyn has also been ill meaning she misses her school play which is upsetting for her. But the inexorable march towards Christmas continues apace, and I am doing my best fo be festive but failing massvely. All Praise to the Blessed Ebenezer Scrooge!

However, the true meaning of Christmas isn't spending money you don't have on things you don't want in order to celebrate the birth of a Saviour you don't believe in. Anne-Marie from the Gonzo Office sent in a heartwarming story today about a Chippy in Cardiff staying open to give food to the homeless. https://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/…/good-news-for-chang… So, from now until the end of what is euphemistically called the "Festive Season" I shall be posting stories like this whenever they come my way...

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:
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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 #367/8
THE DEMOCRACY ISSUE
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This peculiarly prescient issue features Alan at a Register to Vote gig in Todmorden, Jon discussing the unexpected result of his PIP application and the Toxteth Day of the Dead, Kev meets Tom Slatter, Graham describes the culmination of Hawkwind's 50th Anniversary Tour, and there is special news for fans of the late Robert Calvert.

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:

Issue 365-6 (Rick Wakeman)
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Issue 363-4 (Focus)
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Issue 361-2 (Martin Springett)
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Issue 359-60 (Robert Hunter)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-359-60.html
Issue 357-8 (King Crimson)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-357-8.html
Issue 355-6 (Elfin Bow)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-355-6.html
Issue 353-4 (Melanie S Jane)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-353-4.html
Issue 351-2 (Royal Affair)
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Issue 349-50 (Experimental Sonic Machines)
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Issue 347-8 (Gary Duncan)
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Issue 345-6 (RDF)
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Issue 343-4 (Auburn)
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Issue 341-42 (America)
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Issue 339-40 (Kev Rowland)
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Issue 337-38 (Zee)
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Issue 335-36 (Raz)
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Issue 333-34 (Nepal)
https://www.flipsnack.com/9FE5CEE9E8C/gonzo-333-4.html
Issue 331-32 (Scott Walker)
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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!

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BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Regular readers will know that in recent years we have migrated the two specialist Study Groups – Mystery Cats (curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy) and Lake and Sea Monsters (curated by Sally Watts and Richard Muirhead) – to their own standalone blogs, although when there are postings, notifications of them can be found here on the main blog.

Now, we are doing the same for the BHM Study Group, curated by Glen Vaudrey and Nathan Jackson

A Research Team Ventured to Oregon to Find Evidenc...

ECBRO 2nd Annual Bigfoot Convention

VIDEO OF OREGON "BIGFOOT"

WHITE BIGFOOT

OREGON BIGFOOT

'Bigfoot chases car' video emerges in Russia

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: What drove the charismatic cheetah to extinction in India?
• NEWSLINK: Tigers Deaths in Nepal Threaten Recovery

THE LAST WEEK AT THE CFZ-USA BLOG

MYTHOLOGY OF ELVES

GHOST OF H.P. LOVECRAFT

CRYPTID OWLS

SEA CREATURES WASHED UP IN 2018

FLYING REINDEER AND MAGIC MUSHROOMS

WHAT IS BIGFOOT?

BIGFOOT THEORY

AUSTRALIAN YOWIE

SWAMP MONSTER IN NEW JERSEY

DOBHARCHU: IN-DEPTH ARTICLE

CONSER LAKE CREATURE

SASQUATCH LANGUAGE

MONSTER OF LOCH MORAR

BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER AT NELSON LAKE

HUMANOIDS AND MEN IN BLACK

HUMANOID UFO WAVE

1971 WINGED HUMANOID

AN INTELLIGENT GOOSE!

ICELANDERS AND ELVES

WAS THIS AN UPRIGHT WOLVERINE?

NO BLOG TODAY (SUNDAY)

STALLO - GHASTLY CREATURE OF THE NORTH

TROLLS OF NORTHERN MYTHOLOGY

SAVING CHRISTMAS TREES

INTERPRETING BIGFOOT AUDIO

BIGFOOT THROWING A TREE

ARE CROWS THE SMARTEST NON-PRIMATES?

ON THE THYLACINE'S TRAIL

HOW LONG IS EACH ANIMAL EXPECTED TO LIVE?

FLYING HUMANOID OF GORKI

WAS THIS MOTHMAN?

VOUIVRE - DRAGON OF FRANCE

WOLF WOMAN OF MOBILE

ARTICLES ON 9 MONSTERS/CRYPTIDS

RUSSIAN BIGFOOT HIT BY CAR

SVALBARD REINDEER POPULATION INCREASES

GRANDMOTHER ORCAS

HUMANOID OWL-LIKE CREATURE

REINDEER MYTHS AND LEGENDS

SCARY BEINGS AT CHRISTMAS

AMBIZE

MOKELE-MBEMBE

NEW SALAMANDER DISCOVERED

STARRY NIGHT TOAD REDISCOVERED

WINGED CREATURES OVER CHILE

SIGHTINGS OF THE MOA

SAVE THE WOLVES

NEWLY DISCOVERED WIDOW SPIDER

BIBLICAL DINOSAURS?

DOGMAN IN COLORADO

NEW SPIDER DISCOVERED

DOES THE RAKE REALLY EXIST?

LOCH NESS MONSTER: CLASSIC SIGHTINGS

PLESIOSAUR SIGHTING?

PIASA NOT A BIRD

VILLAGE OF THE MICE

NAOMI'S WEREWOLF DREAM

KEN GERHARD'S NEW BIGFOOT BOOK

IS IT BIGFOOT?

CHASED BY WHITE BIGFOOT

RED RIDING HOOD - THE OTHER VERSION

BREMEN TROLL BRIDGE

WAS BIGFOOT SHOT IN CHEST?

NEWS FROM NOWHERE: Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN -  1865 - U.S. Secretary of State William Seward issued a statement verifying the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment abolished slavery with the declaration: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
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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